How are you using these sounds in Flash? Event, start or streaming? The compression for streaming sounds has to be set in the publish settings, not in the library. How good (quality) are these sounds when imported? Wav files, MP3 files? I usually have the best results with 16 bits PCM 44.1 kHz stereo wav sounds. If you want good quality (listenable/enjoyable) music, 20kHz won't cut it. You should at least use 32kHz (and that's still bad) or higher. For sound effects, 20 kHz might be ok, but don't expect a bird to sound like a bird :-)
hth, Muzak ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jefferis Peterson" <jefferis@petersonsales.net> To: "flasher from chinwag" <flasher@lists.chinwag.com> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 4:03 PM Subject: [flasher] Scratchy sounds on output
> Since upgrading to Flash 5 players, I'm noticing that the sound output to > MP3 seems to create much worse sound output. Perhaps it is only > magnifying the lower quality of the original sound clips that it did > before, but now I'm finding that many of my clips sound awful no matter > what I do. Birds and crickets, e.g. sound like I'm playing a record that > is 50 years old... scratchy, hisses, and sounds that are cut off at the > hi end. > I've tried running them through SoundJam and SoundStudio to clean them, > but it doesn't seem to work. > > What's weird is that they play just fine in the library, just fine in any > of those programs, but upon Flash 5 output with either mp3 defaults or > boosted to mp3 best and 20khz, they stink. > > Any ideas? > > Jeff
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