audio samples- HELP
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- konception
I am building a large site for a music production company. She has audio samples for many different products. I would like to use flash for the samples so that an external player isnt needed and there can be a tiny player for each sample with simple play and stop buttons. (note that flash is already required for the site's navigation).
Question: Is there any reason whatsoever to ALSO offer the samples in real audio or simple mp3 format? Client says give as many options as possible, but if they already need flash then I just dont get it.
(samples are not to be downloaded.)What do you guys say??
L.
- JazX0
I could answer your questions
- sinbad0
If flash is required for the site than no, there is no reason to encode them in any other format.
- JazX0
depending upon your site, you could have a preview player for each loop, such as I do here http://www.loopkit.com however that's not finished and I don't have a STOPallsounds feature on those, they just play and then when you click them they stop individually.
- JazX0
your wrong, you will want them to be in .wav format
- JazX0
first and foremost, it depends on what you want the audio to do. do you want it to loop? or is it just some one-time played audio sample? either way I can tell you from working with audio in flash that .wav is handled much better, sounds better and is compressed better.
- JazX0
.mp3 format will not loop well in Flash. They are not built to loop.
- konception0
ok, so even if i use wav, that is still for the flash player. you agree that other formats such as real audio, or windows media blah blah, are NOT necessary?
(no, no looping needed)
- JazX0
you can also check out someone like this http://www.looplabs.com and actually download .fla's from flashkit that do the same thing functionally, but do not have the same aesthetic appeal. ;)
- JazX0
those format aren't going to work well with Flash. .wav format is somewhat standard for all types in musical importations.
- konception0
ok guys,
NEW QUESTION:if i create one little flash player, and want to reuse this player about 1500 times, can i use some kind of variable on each instance of the player to load the appropriate mp3 in?
I do not want to encode a zillion mp3s into swf files.
- konception0
Jazx,
i dont want to use those other formats with flash..
the site is html with flash elements. they would just be other offerings to listen to the samples.
but why they might be needed? je ne sais quoi.
- JazX0
ok what you are doing is somethign I wll be doing with a site I am going to make called loopsforflash.com with rectangular tables set in HTML and graphics with some added flash parts with previewing audio. So let's say you have all these audio samples then you want to have a preview for each of them. You could build one flash file and then just keep replacing the audio for each file, since it's somewhat of internal object, I am not sure. But you can source outside audio, therefore you might want to try and build a module where you will source different .mp3's. On that level, you will want to use .mp3's got me? ;)
- konception0
YES! I want to source a different mp3 for each instance of the same player. An external mp3.
HOW TO?
- JazX0
Hmm, I am not absolutley sure, because like I said I am into loops and looping .wav's which is internal and easier for me. However, with that being said go to http://www.flashkit.com and search under audio players or maybe even http://www.flashcomponents.net to see if there is a component you can use. It for sure has been done before. You can, I think combine this with a basic XML file, which parse them all for you. Good Luck man ;)
- JazX0
- konception0
thanks for help.
- JazX0
your welcome man, shit I had this player, but lost my HD it was by this Indian developer out of Bombay who worked on a sound player with XML and it was so easy and it is what you want, but I cannot find it, sorry ;)
- JazX0
lot of stuff for JAVA: http://www.scriptsearch.com/Java…
- JazX0
konception, how did it go?