Computer Arts - Games special - Sound problems

[snapple]

I dont know how many people here buy Computer Arts magazine - but i do, and my question is related to a particular edition.

Did anyone else purchase the 'Flash Games Special' (Issue 40) ?
I cannot find a date on it other than 2002, it had a cover cd. It has a yellow front cover with blue graphics on it. I wanted to use some good sounds for a project for a mate, then i realised that one of the reasons for buying this edition was because of all the free sounds.

But i cannot use them, i donwload them off the cd, three different formats - but it will not let me put them into Flash ?? I really have tried most things to get the sound in there, but the error messgae is


"One or more files was not imported because there were problems reading them"


Has anyone else got this edition ? Has anyone else tried to use the sounds from the magazine ???

Many thanks in advance.

Regards, snapple.

[CyanBlue]

Howdy... ;)

I don't have that magazine or CD... But if you think that the files are in a valid format, then why don't you post the link so that somebody can figure out how to convert it to usable format???

(I've seen many cases when you needed to convert to the MP3 format with some different settings in MP3 Pro even when the file is already in MP3 format which was causing sort of the same problem...)

[snapple]

Well i have them on my computer, as the following:

1) mp3
2) wav
3) aiff

Other sounds are fine - its just these ones from the cd.

snapple :)

[junahu]

I have this problem when I grab sounds from an emulator (Not using them commercially. Already own the game before hand. It's legal ok). I usually reopen the wav file, tweak it in someway then save it somewhere else. Dunno why but it works for me.

[snapple]

Right, this is really, really, really pissing me off now.

I (just to test) download a sound from flashkit in mp3 format - import in flash (to library) and all is fine.

But any other sound, for example - i cut a song tonight in final cut pro, to loop inside Flash, or if i try to grab it from the above mentioned magazine - it still states that 'one or more of the files could not be read'

I have a feeling it could be my setup - as a friend tried it in Flash on the mac and his pca nd it was ok.

So i feel rather stupid asking this, when i know its me, but - Any suggestions ?

Regards, snapple :)

[CyanBlue]

Hm... Just a hunch, but see if you can find some other MP3 codecs from the Internet and install them to see if that makes any difference??? Not sure if that's going to work or not though... :confused:

[farafiro]

I donno if this is the problem that u have when u import it in flash, but have u trie to import it direct from the CD??
did it work??
try to right-click the grapped files and see if the read-only is checked