Another day, another format

[Rgarner]

What is swf? What is bin? What do they have to do with music? Does a Moto G Stylus have a music player built into it? Do I ask too many questions?

 

[Davdi]

swf is a Flash player file, but as Flash was EOL/deprecated from Jan 2020 it's obsolete and irrelevant now.
bin is a binary file - usually a Linux executable.

 

[Rgarner]

What the heck do those have to do with music and/or videos? Shouldn't they be mp3 or mp4? What do we now that adobe has quit supporting flash? I say we quit supporting adobe.

 

[Hadron]

Music doesn't have to be mp3: it could be aac, ogg, flac, wav, or others. I admit that I can't see what swf would have to do with music, but since swf was used for animations it might once have been relevant for video.

But I would cut Adobe some slack here: Flash has been dying for at least a decade, and many platforms discontinued support for it long before Adobe officially dropped it.

 

[Milo Williamson]

Yeah music can be any format it pleased to be, .swf I believe it is some kind of animation file.. Maybe Java.

 

[Rgarner]

I got CHM Reader X. There is a chm file that I have. Supposedly the Moto G "cannot preview this file type".

 

[puppykickr]

I got CHM Reader X. There is a chm file that I have. Supposedly the Moto G "cannot preview this file type". View attachment 157416

When I get oddball video files that won't play in my gallery, like flash and some others, I have found that I can share them to YouCut, and watch them that way.

If it is domething that I decide to keep or share, then I simply save it with YouCut, and the video is transcribed into a mp4 format.

Other files I just use an online converter.