Sound

[pat]

I want to import a 2.5MB MP3 file so I can play it when a user clicks on a button.

Only problem is Flash 4 won't accept MP3 files, and if I use a .WAV file, it will be huge.

Any ideas?

[kirupa]

Hello Pat,
What you may do, is use any MP3 to WAV converter and convert the sound clip to the WAV format. I'm sure a lot of the download sites like CNET's Download.com (ww.download.com) (http:/www.download.com)) offer free tools for that purpose. I also believe that Real's RealJukebox does something similar...but I'm not sure.

Don't worry if the file size becomes really large. Flash 4 cannot import MP3 files, but it can export MP3 files. So the 40-50 MB WAV file will be converted back to its 2.5 MB MP3 size once exported by Flash. Either way, it'll work easily.

I hope that helped. If you have any further questions or comments, please don't hesitate to reply back.

Regards,
Kirupa Chinnathambi
kirupa@kirupa.com