An incomplete collection of Audibles from the Yahoo! Messenger service, organized by locale. Audibles are bite-sized Flash animations that were intended to be played when sent to a user on Yahoo! Messenger, usually accompanied with a caption of what the Audible will say. Audibles are in .swf format and can be played with a normal Flash Player (right click and press Play to play the animation).
The initial collection was compiled in late 2018 and the goal was to save as many Audibles as possible at the time. Some Audibles in this collection were downloaded from the Wayback Machine, while others had to be downloaded from the remaining Yahoo! server online at the time that hosted Audible content (https://s.yimg.com/pu/dl/aud/), which has since removed them. Finding information on exactly what Audibles had been published and what their filenames on the servers were was a challenge, especially for regions outside the US. By the time I found an adequate list of filenames for most of the Audibles (from some amateur Yahoo! client, don't remember which one), the Yahoo! server hosting Audibles had removed them a year or so after I started collecting them.
09/08/2022: Additional audibles have been provided to me directly by a contact, who had sourced them from another Yahoo! audible server (http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/msg/aud/). They have been added to this upload as of writing. The additional audibles added are listed below:
- base.us.fifa.andres1.swf
- base.us.fifa.crybaby1.swf
- base.us.fifa.one-nil.swf
- base.us.fifa.redcard1.swf
- base.us.fifa.teeshirt1.swf
- base.us.flirts.heartmelt.swf
- base.us.flirts.lovesme.swf
- base.us.flirts.sexy.swf
- base.us.flirts.window1.swf
- base.us.hellos.ladies.swf
- base.us.hellos.whadup.swf
- base.us.ncaa.down1.swf
- base.us.ncaa.foul1.swf
- base.us.ncaa.hole1.swf
- base.us.ncaa.sound1.swf
- base.us.ncaa.travelling1.swf
- base.us.ncaa.underdog1.swf
- base.us.ncaa.vacation1.swf
- base.us.taunts.hungry.swf
- base.us.taunts.mopping.swf
- base.us.taunts.muha.swf
- base.us.taunts.seriously.swf
Locales Included:
- US (English)
- UK (Not sure, possibly United Kingdom or Ukraine)
- TW (Taiwanese)
- IN (Indian)
- DE (possibly German)
- AA (???, it's known it hosted Audibles for the Vietnamese region)
I highly encourage that anyone reading this consider helping out by archiving Audibles that I don't have or variants of existing ones, if possible, especially since there are some Audibles I know of that have not been archived in any format and are pretty much lost media right now. To elaborate on the variants I am talking about, they are identical content-wise to the Audibles in this collection, but the filenames are slightly different and have byte changes in the data. If you do want to help, do note that Yahoo! Messenger did cache the Audible SWFs in its program folder, so looking for those on old computers with Yahoo! Messenger installed will be helpful.