Re: FLASH: PLEASE HELP: Flash 5 and midi files

[John Dowdell]

At 3:40 PM 10/12/0, Debbie Miller wrote:

> It doesn't say so in the book or the help pages, so I guessing

> there isn't....


Good guess.  ;-)


This came up twice here last week... if you find yourself in a crunch in

the future, then it can often help to read the existing conversation, to

give you the answers you seek before you need them. (No lecturing intended,

but it helps both you and other folks too.)


MIDI files are small, true. But MIDI Players are large... many times

they're larger than the entire Macromedia Flash Player. Built-in rendering

would break the core goals of small footprint, fast startup, easy

portability.


What about tapping into system-level MIDI? Well, they vary, and any time

you rely on a *range* of system components there are additional

configuration problems. In addition it takes more code to detect,

discriminate, handle for differences among possible MIDI Players. Then

there's the massive PC problem of combining such sounds with native

buttonclicks.



> Any why do wav files sound so crappy in Flash 5, and MP3 files

> are so much clearer?


Do all sites sound "crappy" in that browser? If they all sound different on

that one machine, then that could help point towards a configuration

difference. But if your SWFs sound "crappy" while other sites sound "not

crappy", then that may point to a content or handling difference.


(Just based on statistical posting patterns, I'd wonder whether perhaps

you're starting with an 8-bit 11 KHz WAV or such, instead of a full 16-bit

44.1 KHz sample... that comes up a lot online. I can't tell from here

whether that's the case there, though.)


For low-cost audio editors, you might wish to check at

http://www.download.com/ ... that's a good first stop.


jd








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