Sound question - it's not working!

Question

Hi all - novice flash user here -
Was working on a file in Flash 8 Professional. I imported a
WAV file to the library, made a new layer w/keyframe on the
timeline, and dragged the wav file from the library to the stage.
The first few times I tested the movie (CRTL+enter), the WAV
file played fine...but at some point, the sound stopped working. I
can't figure out why! The sound file plays fine if I test it from
the library; if I hit "enter" to run the movie from the stage, the
sound plays when the playhead starts moving; but if I publish or
test the thing, the sound goes away. I can't figure out what I did.
In the Properties panel, the sync is set to "stream;" also, I went
back and made sure that the layer containing the sound had enough
frames to fit the entire sound file. I tried deleting a bunch of
layers just in case there are memory issues of some sort, but that
wasn't it either; I also made sure that the "mute sounds" command
wasn't checked. Not sure what else I should try.
I tried playing some files that I created in the past and the
sound works fine on those - but when I created a 2-layer test file
using the problem WAV, the issue resurfaced. I tried re-importing
it, but that did nothing - and, as I mentioned, the thing plays
fine when I test it from the library or when I move the playhead
around in the .fla file. I was just reading back thru the forums
and found some mention of sound problems resulting from
inconsistencies in the audio output frequency, so maybe that's what
I'll look into next - but there really is nothing that I did
outside of Flash (like installing new software, changing system
settings, etc.) that would cause this.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks! -
Ali

Answer 1

I discovered a similar problem. My sounds play fine in the
authoring environment, but when I view them in a browser(IE). The
audio files don't work.
I think it might be an issue with Player 9. I went back into
my 'Publish' settings in Flash 8 and change the player version back
to 7 instead of 8 and the audio works fine when viewing in a
browser with the player 9 plugin.
I believe the authoring enironment (debugger) version is 8...
that's why it works inside of Flash.