Sound Bug (Flash & No Flash)

[Mokhtar]

I am getting totally messed up sounds with a bunch of audio files that I'm trying. There are two types of problems I'm getting:

1. Without Flash, the sound gets messed up at the end when running in MMF2. I have attached the original wave file so you can compare both.

2. In Flash it sounds just like noise, the whole thing.

So, is this a bug or are there some restrictions we need to know about the sound formats that can be played (in general and in Flash)? If so what are they?

[Yves]

The sound has an odd format, MMF2 says it's a 24 bit sound (first time I see one, usually sounds have 8 or 16 bits per sample, not 24). Can you convert it to 16 bit format?

[Mokhtar]

I didn't create this format, it's my sound engineer that provided me with audio files of this format.

I will ask for a down-sampled version and see if that's the issue.

Do you think it's the 24 bits that's causing the problem?

[Yves]

Yes, probably.

[Looki]

I just saved it as 16-bit PCM WAV in Audacity, and it works fine in both MMF and Flash.

[Mokhtar]

Alright, thanks Looki. That should be a valid work around.

For MMF though, I think the reason for the inability to play 24-bit files should be looked into when time is available.

[Mokhtar]

I was doing more testing with sounds and ran into another strange audio bug. I built a JAR file with an audio track and it plays fine on Windows but not on Mac. This one is a 16-bit audio file, so it shouldn't be related to the previous bug.

Check it out here.