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andrewpweyrich
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March 16, 2011
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one or more files were not imported because there were problems reading them

  • March 16, 2011
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I am using Flash CS4 and Flash CS5.  I bought some music from Amazon MP3 that I want to use in my Flash animation and I keep getting this error upon import:  one or more files were not imported because there were problems reading them

What does that mean?

    Correct answer robdillon

    I'm guessing that these are mp3 audio files. They may have  been sampled at a rate that Flash doesn't like or it may mean that the file format is one that Flash doesn't like. I've seen this a lot and my solution is to open the offending file in a sound editor, check the sampling rate, change it, if necessary, and then resave the file. It will usually import after that exercise.

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    robdillon
    robdillonCorrect answer
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    March 16, 2011

    I'm guessing that these are mp3 audio files. They may have  been sampled at a rate that Flash doesn't like or it may mean that the file format is one that Flash doesn't like. I've seen this a lot and my solution is to open the offending file in a sound editor, check the sampling rate, change it, if necessary, and then resave the file. It will usually import after that exercise.

      prometh
      prometh
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      July 9, 2012

      So, we have to recompress it, or just change something in metadata/etc?

      Here is the last setting I used:

      lame -q 0 -V 8 -b 32 -B 128 -m s --vbr-old sample.wav sample.mp3
      SuhasYogin
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      SuhasYogin
      Adobe Employee
      July 10, 2012

      Hi Steve,

      You simply have to resave the mp3 file by altering the sampling and bit rates. Depending on the software you are using for resampling the problematic audio files, you will have different sampling rates such as 44100, 48000, 32000, 22050, 11025, 8000 and bit-rate variants such as 128, 64, 32, and so on up to 448. The more you compress a sound and the lower the sampling rate, the smaller the size and the lower the quality. And, I would suggest that you should experiment a little to find the optimal balance between sound quality and file size. See this Help File for more about Using and Exporting Sounds in Flash Professional CS6. If you are using Adobe SoundBooth, then a peek in to this forum thread might help you alter Sampling Rates of your MP3 files.

      Regards,

      Suhas Yogin

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