[Web4lib] Re: Podcasts, Flash Players, and the Chipmunks

[T Mac]

Hi Lawrence - Are you embedding the audio files or creating ActionScript links to them? I haven't tried it and I could be wrong, but I would assume that if you used ActionScript to play an external file rather than embedding it within Flash, then it wouldn't have the compression problems that it sounds like you are having. The Flash book I have uses this code (place the file in the same folder and place the code in the frame where you want the sound to start playing - the "true" tells it to start playing right away rather than waiting for it to download entirely first):
   
  my_sound = new Sound();
  my_sound.loadSound("music.mp3", true);

  Terran McCanna
  Electronic Services Libarian
  Hunt Library, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
  
 
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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:29:26 -0700
From: Laurence Sloma 
Subject: [Web4lib] Podcasts, Flash Players, and the Chipmunks
To: Web4Lib 
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We've been recording podcasts for some time now, and currently offer
them on this page:

http://www2.morainevalley.edu/default.asp?SiteId=10&PageId=1356

What we would like to do is embed a flash player in that page so that
users can listen to the MP3s without either leaving the page or
downloading the MP3s to their machines. Unfortunately, unless we encode
the MP3s using settings that result in *huge* files, the podcast
speakers sound like chipmunks when played back through flash (they
sound fine using any other playback method). Any suggestions? We're
using Adobe Audition to create the MP3s. I looked in the archives but
couldn't find anything.

Thanks!

Laurence Sloma
Instructional Technologist
Center for Teaching and Learning
Moraine Valley Community College
9000 West College Parkway
Palos Hills, Illinois 60465


       
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