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Casimir's Blake
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MP3 -> Flash new
      #41272 - 26/10/04 09:33 PM
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I'd like to add a flash object, playing a looped MP3, to my website. I don't particularly want to shell out for Macromedia Director for something as simple as this. I know of the excellent script-based SWF creator "SSWF", but it currently only supports uncompressed WAVE files...

So, anyone know of any software out there that can produce SWFs that do this?

-Chis

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Re: MP3 -> Flash new [Re: Casimir's Blake]
      #41367 - 27/10/04 01:54 AM
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Chris, have you checked out:

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Sound/Players/

I'm pretty sure there's some Flash objects on there that can do what you want. I had a little look into it a while back looking for similar things for my website but decided against Flash in the end.


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Re: MP3 -> Flash new [Re: Casimir's Blake]
      #41473 - 27/10/04 11:05 AM
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Bear in mind that translating compressed formats won't give you great sound quality. Going from a WAV would certainly be preferable.

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Casimir's Blake
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Re: MP3 -> Flash new [Re: Casimir's Blake]
      #41693 - 27/10/04 05:46 PM
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Perhaps I should have been more careful with my choice of words. I mean specifically embedding an MP3 in an swf, with a simple PLAY/STOP interface, or the same but refering to an MP3 on a web server. Not reconverting from an MP3 to anything...

I've seen that FlashKit site, and it potentially seems to have the sort of thing I'm after... but what do I do with FLA files? Again, I don't have, or want Director!

Cheers for the responses though, guys.

-Chis

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inocybe



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Re: MP3 -> Flash new [Re: Casimir's Blake]
      #42171 - 28/10/04 03:47 PM
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First off.. you don't need director.. that's a whole other beast.

you might however need Macromedia flash (to open .fla files) to tackle this problem. I don't know if there are any other programs around which can do this without needing flash at some point.

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Re: MP3 -> Flash new [Re: Rob C]
      #42605 - 29/10/04 01:57 PM
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Quote Rob C.:

Bear in mind that translating compressed formats won't give you great sound quality. Going from a WAV would certainly be preferable.

I don't think Flash actually does anything to audio files, it just acts as a wrapper, so audio quality degradation won't be an issue.

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Re: MP3 -> Flash new [Re: xFasterMikeyH]
      #45256 - 04/11/04 12:09 PM
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I think you can only stream MP3's in flash. And if you define a stream, flash doesn't touch the audio (Not sure, long time ago I did this).. Imported audio in flash however is compressed to mp3 (using the fraunhoffer pro codec, so that's as good as it gets for mp3, no complaints there..)

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Mike Duguid



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Re: MP3 -> Flash [Re: Casimir's Blake]
      #47585 - 09/11/04 03:14 PM
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you can download a fully functional 30 day trial of flash if you need it from
macromedia


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