In a previous post, “Digging into the Microphone in Flash Player 10.1”, reader David Law asked in the comments how it would be possible to save .wav files to the server. I wasn’t sure right offhand, but thought I’d spend my lunch hour yesterday looking into it. Well, after reading this quick tutorial on Adobe Developer Connection, it turns out it’s actually quite simple. Almost embarrassingly simple, but still I thought I’d post it in case anyone else was looking to do the same thing. The trick is to just convert your sound bytes into a wav formatted ByteArray object which can then be saved to the server with a quick bit of AMFPHP. You’ll notice in that Adobe article that there is included a WAVWriter class – that is all that’s necessary to convert your uncompressed ByteArray to a .wav file. Once you have that, the below AMFPHP class can easily save that .wav file to your server: [crayon-61e8e47fea9a5023164347/] You may notice that the above class just saves the file to a directory within your AMFPHP services directory. You’ll more than likely not want to do that, so you can just create a different path. Or you may want […]
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