embedded mp3 in actionscript3 won't play all the way through

Question

I embedded an mp3 file be used as background music for my app. Though it works fine, the problem is that it doesn\'t play the whole track, it just plays the first 32 seconds

Answer 1

Well, it's been 2 years since original question, but I had the same problem, but only with short (under 2 seconds) files. Turned out the problem was with metadata. If metadata says sound is 1 second long and in reality it's 1.5 seconds, Flash will only play 1 second of sound cutting the rest off.

I solved the problem by not including metadata with the file when converting from wav to mp3.

Hope that helps someone.