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Flash 10 Audio in IE7 Recovers Consciousness

Adobe released their long-awaited fix to the dreaded FP-985 crasher bug in today’s Flash Player 10 update release, a/k/a Nemo (see my previous post on the subject).  The new player seems not to have broken anything else audio-related either.  Thanks, Flash team!  (Can we developers get a debug player, please?)

As to the other problems plaguing Flash 10 audio on Windows, well, the jury is still out on whether those have improved with the new player.  We at Noteflight have been receiving a regular stream of support emails complaining about output not working on Windows.  We have typically been asking these folks to turn on a configuration setting that reverts the audio output approach to Flash 9-based APIs, which always makes their problem go away.  Now that the new player’s been released, we’re going to try a different approach and ask our users to upgrade to the new Flash Player.  If this works, we’ll be really happy that Adobe fixed some bugs affecting configurations found in the field, but not in our lab.  If this doesn’t work, well… brace yourselves for some more long, dissatisfied posts here.  I’m hoping for the best, though.

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