scy

I’ve just noticed that

a) the MP3 playing nowadays at https://zombo.com/ is 30 % larger than the MP3 stream embedded in the original flash animation (401 vs 310 KB), but of considerably lower quality (11 kHz instead of 22, and with heavily compressed audio) and
b) apparently the #InternetArchive doesn’t have the original file in their flash animations archive.

Time to at least fix the latter, I guess…?

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Jun 1, 2023 at 12:37pmWeb
Show threadscyJun 1, 2023
Okay, I see the problem now. The original SWF consists of two files: The spinning circles animation, which is only 7k in size, and the audio, which is 300k in size and will be loaded dynamically by the animation file. And apparently, the Internet Archive's Flash emulation does not support multi-file thingies. At least it didn't in 2021. That's still the case, I guess, @textfiles?
Show threadJason ScottJun 1, 2023
@scy Yes, will be the care forever. Maybe some .zip thing will work in the future.