# Why is my file so big?!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-is-my-file-so-big/193644>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 14, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-is-my-file-so-big/193644 "2006-07-14T19:25:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![jinho326](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@jinho326](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jinho326)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-is-my-file-so-big/193644/1 "2006-07-14T19:25:16Z")

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Hi! I made an fla file that streams mp3 files, and all the mp3 files put together are no bigger than 1 meg. However the fla file bloated from ~2 megs to ~40 megs when I made them stream… Why did this happen?

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