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Can't Import WAV files

I am running Flash MX 2004. For some reason, Flash won't import most of my WAV files. This problem mysteriously started yesterday. Everytime I try to import a WAV i get a message saying something like "one or more files couldn't be imported because there were problems reading them." The files that I could import a month ago, now won't import at all. I tried about 20 WAV's and only 4 of those imported succesfully. (16 of the waves were a few secs longs, of those 4 worked; the other 4 wavs were about a minute, none of those worked). In an attempt to solve the problem, i installed the Flash MX 2004 update (7.2). Still nothing worked. Whats going on here and how can I make the WAV's import?!

hsmtp

1. Try to copy them into some root folder. For example in c:\wav
2. Maybe you've changed the wav saving settings in your audio editing programm. Check the format.
3. Use only short file names with only Latin letters in them. Try avoid any cyrillic in file names.

Hope this helps.

andrey_2007

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i am using wavs from Mircrosft Word's Clipart Library. Those wav's have always worked in the past. Nonetheless, i will try ur suggestions.

hsmtp

andrey_2007,

There maybe problem in a path to these wavs. If it includes cyrillic letters - flash may fail to get them

andrey_2007

ASKER

whats ur definition of a cyrillic letter? Would [] be cyrillic, because all the names of the wav have them?

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andrey_2007

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dutchfoxer,

not a bad idea. heres the link to the wav file: http://home.earthlink.net/~alexluk/test.wav

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hsmtp,

i tried everything u told me and still no luck. :(

Diablo84

Seeing as you already have the file online have you tried importing it from the web

same procedure as normal, file > import then paste the url in the file name input then click open

dutchfoxer

Ooops, I have no problem whatso ever importing the Wav. :(

See here result: http://www.adcon.nl/experts-exchange/sound-imported.fla

I think something went wrong with your installation. Especially the update. I had problems opening old Version 5 FLA's. Deinstalled and reinstalled again but now with update right after installation.... so before anything else. And voila, opening old FLA's is no longer a problem.

andrey_2007

ASKER

you see it worked fine for a few months after the intial installation. and then yesterday it just randomly stopped important wav's. I installed the update after i found the problem. any other ideas?

D3C0Y

What is the EXACT error message?

D3C0Y

Here is a website that may be of interest: http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/audio_import.htm

dutchfoxer

Andrey, remember that I had no problem importing the WAV. So it must be your computer, your OS or your flash version.
What did you install after Flash? Any other software, plugins, Codecs?
Did you have an HALTED system / crash which may have corrupted some files?

To have a clean start, just reinstall the whole thing.... its not fun to do but could solve problem much quicker.

andrey_2007

ASKER

actually now that i think of it i did install a plugin and it seemed to have stopped working after that. im prob gonna end up reintalling flash.