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Oh, the irony

nicholas on 2008-04-25T09:08:42

[Spike Milligan] himself was notoriously anti-technology

Yet www.spike-milligan.com is entirely Flash! :-( With Sound :-( Except that it's Brazil...

At least it didn't take much detective work to find out why on Earth there is a harmonica version of Brazil there. Better still, the whole thing is over on the Goon Show Guide. Now, how does one convert .swf to other audio formats?

.swf Decompiler

Mr. Muskrat on 2008-04-25T14:35:13

Find yourself a .swf decompiler. The .swf file will generally contain a sound file of a well known type (.wav, .mp3, etc).

SWF to MP3

ChrisDolan on 2008-04-27T05:10:26

Try this: swf2flv and flv2mp3.

Internally, most SWF audio is just chunks of MP3. If it fails, feel free to submit a report to RT and I'll look at it.

Re:SWF to MP3

ChrisDolan on 2008-04-28T01:49:58

OK, I actually tried it and, in this case, the audio is not embedded in the primary SWF, but is loaded from an external URL. See this screen capture from Safari's activity monitor showing all of the URLs loaded by that SWF, including many MP3 files.

http://chrisdolan.net/misc/Spike-mulligan-activity.png