Flash Player 10 - Audio Bug

After updating to Flash Player 10, I’ve noticed that a large number of MP3 players on Flashden are now spitting out static and distorted music. Unfortunately, this bug has affected my MP3 players as well (although they still play fine in FP9 ), so I’m trying to get to the bottom of this.

I’ve seen the bug on the following browsers:

Firefox 3 (Windows Vista)
Internet Explorer 7 (Windows Vista)
Opera (Windows Vista)
Safari (Windows Vista)
Firefox 2 (Windows XP)

And sure enough, when using Flash Player 9, the music plays perfectly.

However, this bug only seems to affect some MP3 players and not others. I looked through a few MP3 players that were similar to mine (Flash 8 and AS2 ). Some had static, and some seemed to work fine.

So the question is, what’s the difference between those that were affected and those that were not? Was the sound object set up differently?

I’d be glad to know if anybody has found a solution for this!

Well i seem to have found a workaround for now (just in case anyone else has this problem).

I guess the bug has nothing to do with the sound object or what your Actionscript looks like. Apparently Flash Player 10 handles 48000Hz MP3 files differently compared to Flash Player 9.

So if you come across this issue, reconvert your MP3 files so that they have a sample rate of 44100Hz or less.

That’s crazy. I just updated my flash player to 10 right before you posted this. I was worried, but my templates still seem to work. So they must be all good then. But I’m using Mac OSX . Do you think there is a major difference in how the music players will be affected on a Wndows based PC and a Mac?

I’ve seen the bug on the following browsers:

Firefox 3 (Windows Vista)
Internet Explorer 7 (Windows Vista)
Opera (Windows Vista)
Safari (Windows Vista)
Firefox 2 (Windows XP)

So in other words… Vista sucks

No worries guys, looks like Adobe is aware of this bug:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-862

The bug status is labeled as “Internal Review”. So hopefully they will start working on a fix soon.

I’ve seen the bug on the following browsers:

Firefox 3 (Windows Vista)
Internet Explorer 7 (Windows Vista)
Opera (Windows Vista)
Safari (Windows Vista)
Firefox 2 (Windows XP)

So in other words… Vista sucks

spot on lol

I’ve seen the bug on the following browsers:

Firefox 3 (Windows Vista)
Internet Explorer 7 (Windows Vista)
Opera (Windows Vista)
Safari (Windows Vista)
Firefox 2 (Windows XP)

So in other words… Vista sucks

spot on lol

The audio bug also affects Windows XP and Macs to the same degree.