Flash Player Version 10.0.12.36 Audio Playback Bug

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Windows users who have upgraded their Adobe Flash players to version 10.0.12.36 will hear warping and distortion in most of the audio examples on ACB. The problem is a documented bug in the Flash player that only manifests while playing audio that is rendered at either 22kHz or 48kHz. Since most of my mixes are at 48kHz before I convert them to mp3s this problem will effect a lot of ACB readers. Hopefully Adobe will have a fix out soon, but until then please click on the title of the audio rather than the player button to listen if you are experiencing playback issues. If you have an older version of the player, or use a Mac you will not be effected by this bug. Update: apparently Mac users with the new version of the plugin have the problem as well. The problem is described here with an AS2 workaround. I’m still looking at solutions, in the meantime, other than clicking on the title versus the play button, the only other solution is to downgrade your Flash player.

http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-862

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About John CS Keston

John CS Keston is an award winning transdisciplinary artist reimagining how music, video art, and computer science intersect. His work both questions and embraces his backgrounds in music technology, software development, and improvisation leading him toward unconventional compositions that convey a spirit of discovery and exploration through the use of graphic scores, chance and generative techniques, analog and digital synthesis, experimental sound design, signal processing, and acoustic piano. Performers are empowered to use their phonomnesis, or sonic imaginations, while contributing to his collaborative work. Originally from the United Kingdom, John currently resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he is a professor of Digital Media Arts at the University of St Thomas. He founded the sound design resource, AudioCookbook.org, where you will find articles and documentation about his projects and research. John has spoken, performed, or exhibited original work at New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2022), the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2022), the International Digital Media Arts Conference (iDMAa 2022), International Sound in Science Technology and the Arts (ISSTA 2017-2019), Northern Spark (2011-2017), the Weisman Art Museum, the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Walker Art Center, the Minnesota Institute of Art, the Eyeo Festival, INST-INT, Echofluxx (Prague), and Moogfest. He produced and performed in the piece Instant Cinema: Teleportation Platform X, a featured project at Northern Spark 2013. He composed and performed the music for In Habit: Life in Patterns (2012) and Words to Dead Lips (2011) in collaboration with the dance company Aniccha Arts. In 2017 he was commissioned by the Walker Art Center to compose music for former Merce Cunningham dancers during the Common Time performance series. His music appears in The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2012) and he composed the music for the short Familiar Pavement (2015). He has appeared on more than a dozen albums including two solo albums on UnearthedMusic.com.

6 thoughts on “Flash Player Version 10.0.12.36 Audio Playback Bug”

  1. Really? I’m on a Mac and running that version of the Flash Player and have been noticing that problem too.

  2. Hey JonO. Looks like you are right about that. I haven’t updated my Flash player on my Mac yet, but am able to test the problem on my Windows partition. Hopefully I’ll have a solution soon, until then the download link is your best bet. Sorry for the inconvenience, but now that I’m aware of this it shouldn’t be long before it’s sorted.

  3. Seems ACB is really an exception with its 48kHz files. Already wondered about that crackling which does not appear on any of the other sites I usually visit – they obviously render their mp3s at 44kHz all together, as I do as well, e.g. converting 22kHz (or 48kHz) to 44kHz by Audacity before exporting to mp3.

  4. You were right, it all started being weird after the flash upgrade. Dont know why I never thought about clicking the sound name, it solves all the problems!
    Thanks!

  5. Well…no apology necessary. It’s not really your problem to solve…it’s those nonces over at Adobe. :)

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