title: Embedding wav files in AS3 Flash/Flex project?
body: <p>The Flash IDE is capable of embedding many types of uncompressed sound files, including wav, and offers optional compression when publishing.</p>
  
  <p>However, the [Embed] tag, only seems to allow embedding of mp3 files. Is it truly impossible to embed an uncompressed wav file, or am I missing some magic, undocumented mimeType?</p>
  
  <p>I was hoping for something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[Embed source="../../audio/wibble.wav" mimeType="audio/wav"]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>...but I get</p>
  
  <pre><code>no transcoder registered for mimeType 'audio/wav'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It's possible to embed wav or other format as an octet-stream and parse at runtime, but that's pretty heavy handed I think.</p>
  
  <p>I'm surprised that even though the Flash IDE can embed uncompressed sound data, [Embed] cannot, given that the swf spec can contain uncompressed sound data.</p>
  
  <p>Any takers?</p>