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Can You Have Continuous Music Playing Thru Flash Whilst Browsing A Site?
I'm trying to figure out how you could get flash to keep playing an mp3 file whilst a user browses pages of a site.

Ideally I would like to do this using an http server (no streaming server yet!) and maybe by taking advantage of a user's cache to store the mp3 file even if it's only partially downloaded

Any idea how these sites do it:
www.thesixtyone.com (i think they're doing something tricky with subfolders)
www.jango.com (i'm pretty sure they're using an iframe, but this makes urls tricky)
www.8tracks.com (?)

Suggestions are welcome!

Can You Have Continuous Music Playing Thru Flash Whilst Browsing A Site?
I'm trying to figure out how you could get flash to keep playing an mp3 file whilst a user browses pages of a site.

Ideally I would like to do this using an http server (no streaming server yet!) and maybe by taking advantage of a user's cache to store the mp3 file even if it's only partially downloaded

Any idea how these sites do it:
thesixtyone.com (i think they're doing something tricky with subfolders)
jango.com (i'm pretty sure they're using an iframe, but this makes urls tricky)
8tracks.com (?)

Suggestions are welcome!

Problems Playing Continuous Music
I have already put some music on my web page for specific pages. I was wondering if there was a way to have one song play for the remaining pages on the site, yet when the user goes to a different page, the music doesn't stop it is playing continuously in the background without breaking as they navigate through the site. Let me know if this is possible, not having too much luck yet as i am pretty new to this.

Help Please, Important Help On Music Not Playing On Full Flash Site.
When I preview the site in Flash, the music plays great and everything. When we uploaded everything to the net, the music player doesnt work. We uploaded the "song" folder with the songs, but still nothing.

Here is the website : http://www.visual-enhancement.com/

Also, here is the action script code: i=0;
sonando="false";
listaCanciones= new Array("songs/1.mp3","songs/2.mp3","songs/3.mp3","songs/4.mp3","songs/5.mp3","songs/6.mp3");
sonarCancion();
equal_mc.gotoAndPlay("play");
equal1_mc.gotoAndPlay("play");
equal2_mc.gotoAndPlay("play");

function sonarCancion(){
if (sonando=="false"){
song.stop();
song=new Sound();
song.loadSound (listaCanciones[i],true);
song.setVolume(10);
song.onSoundComplete=function(){
song.loadSound (listaCanciones[i],true);
song.setVolume(10);
}
equal_mc.gotoAndPlay("play");
equal1_mc.gotoAndPlay("play");
equal2_mc.gotoAndPlay("play");
sonando="true";
} else {
song.stop();
sonando="false";
}
}
function pararCancion(){
song.stop();
sonando="false";
equal_mc.gotoAndPlay("stop");
equal1_mc.gotoAndPlay("stop");
equal2_mc.gotoAndPlay("stop");
}
function siguienteCancion(){
if (i<(listaCanciones.length-1)){
i++;
}else {
i=0;
}
sonando="false";
sonarCancion();
}
function anteriorCancion(){
if (i>0){
i--;
}else{
i=listaCanciones.length-1;
}
sonando="false";
sonarCancion();
}

Help is much appreciated as we have a deadline to fully launch the site.

Thanks.

-Add Text To Flash Scenes, Whilst Movie Is Playing-
I have a Flash movie consisting of several scenes.The text for these scenes
come from several .txt files

Is there a way to create a kind of Admin page, and be able to type in, whislt
the movie is playing in .swf, what text will appear in the next relative scenes?

Playing Music Throughout Entire Site..
I'm working on a flash site for a school final right now. I have music that plays when the site loads, but whenever I change pages with getURL, the movie changes and the music stops. I was wondering if there was another way I could go about changing pages. A way that would have the music continue to play, even when pages are changed.

My past attempts at getting a sound file to play throughout my entire site have failed.. I'm wondering if I can run a flash movie inside of another movie.
I was thinking of a setup kinda like this:

<shell flash movie with sound file>
<website flash movie></website flash movie>
</shell movie with sound file>

And have controls within the website flash movie to mute/unmute the sound for users that don't want sound.

Playing Music Throughout Entire Site...
I'm working on a flash site for a school final right now. I have music that plays when the site loads, but whenever I change pages with getURL, the movie changes and the music stops. I was wondering if there was another way I could go about changing pages. A way that would have the music continue to play, even when pages are changed.

Continuous Music In Flash Clip
Hey! First time here. I'm so happy I found this site and forum.

Here's my problem. I'm in the middle of making a multimedia assignment for my summer class and needs some help.

In Flash 5, how can you play a music file and make it play onto the next scene? Any answers or suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Playing External SWF Whilst Loading It
hey,

I am trying loading a SWF which is an animation in the background. this animation might be rather large (6MgB) so i dont want the user to wait a long time.
I tried playing it on init rather than complete and even though i hear the sound i do not see the image before the complete event is called.

any tips?
thanks

Importing Music, Stopping Playback Whilst Animating
Hey
I'm animating a music video for college using flash, but when I import the song onto the stage;
1: It only allows me to play the song from the start, and not half way through
2: It wont stop playing once I play the movie!
If anyone could help me out here that would be great, thanks
Iain

How To Disable Btns Whilst A Movie Clip Is Playing
Hi

I have made a hangman style game based on sham bhangal hangman game in actionscript for flash mx 2004.

the changes

1) I have made is that letters guessed are btns on the stage

2) if the letter guessed does match a letter in the word ... a movie clip plays ... an animation moves across the screen with each mistake until it meets it doom

The problem is the animation takes about 1 second and during that time the player can make more guesses from the letter buttons but if another mistake is made the movie clip is in play so it does not play again .. ie the player gets extra guesses

how can I

whilst the playhead is moving in _mc no more buttons can be pressed?

I hope you can help with out the fla .. as it is too big for me to cut down

cheers
neil .. i have so much to learn

Count User Browsing Site.
How can I write a code to see that how many people is currently browsing my site? Help required.

Load Site Whilst Intro Plays
I have created a site that takes around 20 seconds to load on std dial up, so i created an intro movie which comes up right away to keep my visitor interested whilst my site is loading.

How do i get the second movie to load behind the first so that when the first finishes and quits the second movie is running behind and comes into view?

Can any one help as this would be a real life saver ?

Continuous Music
Hello Flash experts. I'm relatively new at Flash and have a questions that I'm sure is obvious but I can't seem to search for the right thing to find my answers.

I have a header called by an include on every page and within the header is the main menu done in flash.

I want to be able to have music play on start up and continue uninterruped when you click on subsequent pages. Pop-ups won't work since many people block them. It would be nice to have an option to turn the music off on the movie as well.

Can anyone give me instructions or point me to a tutorial on how this is done?

Many thanks.

Continuous Music
hey all,

i have been trying to figure this out for the longest time... http://www.protonradio.com/ has this continuous music regardless of which page it goes to... but it doesn't look like is using any frame nor is the entire in flash.. how do they do this? is this flash programming? or just dynamic coding?

thanks in advance

Continuous Music?
How can I keep one song playing smoothly while browsing through my pages? I have controls set up on all pages. Once i start the music and click to a new page, I have to restart the music everytime. Any help would be great.

Thanks,
Rob

Continuous Music Through Scenes
hmmmm, ive got five scenes and have music in the first scene timeline but when this changes to second scene music stops - how do you get continuous play throughout all scenes
thanks
greg

Smooth, Continuous Looping Music
Hello, I was wondering how I could make a decent, smooth and continuous music loop. I noticed there is a one second pause or delay when I use the command gotoandplay(1); at the end of the attached "mysound.mp3" timeline which returns the playhead to the start of the "mysound.mp3" to begin the loop.

Is there any fancy programming here? Such as the following from the Flash MX manual?

i = 0;
do {
duplicateMovieClip ("myMovieClip", "newMovieClip" + i, i);
newName = eval("newMovieClip" + i);
setProperty(newName, _x, getProperty("myMovieClip", _x) + (i * 5));
i = i + 1;
} while (i <= 5);

Thank you for viewing and replying for help.

How To Change Buttons On Music Player Depending On Whether Music Is Playing Or Stoppe
When my music is playing, I want my play button to be blackened in. When the music is stopped, I want my stop button to be blackened but my play button to go back to it's original state.

Right now, when my cursor is over the button, it will change the rollover state. That's easy to do.

How can this be accomplished...do i need multiple layers?

Playing Music In Flash
Hi all,

I've imported an mp3 into my library and put it on the top layer of my file. When I test it, its all fine, however when I export it as a .mov there is no sound?

Can anyone tell me why this is?

Also it doesn't look like the sound agrees with the timeline - i.e in the file where I see a big change in the music, isn't necessarily the same time as the big change when I play it ?

Flash Music Keeps Playing In IE?
Hi, I designed this web site here, and posted an article containing a flash movie.

http://www.mzanime.com/

The article has the flash movie wrapped inside of a div, and a user can click on a link which has a javascript function which sets the div to display:none when its clicked. In firefox, the movie disappears, and the music stops.

But in IE, the movie disappears, but the musuc keeps playing! Is this a known bug? And is there anyway to fix this in IE?

Is It Possible To "pause" The BG Loop Whilst An Flv Is Playing?
I thought I remembered an "onExitFrame" command, but it doesn't seem to be there anymore.

Essentially, when the button is pushed and the movie progresses to the frame holding the flv player, I'd like it pause the bg loop (or kill it), but to reload or restart it when the user hits a menu button to resume exploring,

Any thoughts? I'm assuming this is a common need...??

Thanks guys!

J

Help With Continuous Scroll Of Photos, Click Each To Play Music
Ok, first post here...

Here's what I'm looking to do. I am involved with a number of musical artists and I am looking to have a continuous scroll of their photos or album covers at the bottom of my site. When you click on one of them, I would like an mp3 of their single to play (with a control on the site for volume, stop, pause, etc). So far, the closest I have seen to the basic concept of what I need is SWF 'n Slide from Vertical Moon, but that only plays one continuous track for the whole scroll and when you click on each picture, it just enlarges that image.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Problem Playing Music In Flash - Please Help
Hi there

I desperately need everybodys help! I'm going to pull my hair out.

I've designed a whole website in flash.

There are 8 different sections of the website and each one has its own .swf file as such.

So basically, when one enters the website, the page loads with main.swf, and if someone clicks on a button within that "main.swf", it will onLoad "aboutus.swf" on top of that for example. The same applies to all 8 sections.

I did this deliberately so that there would not just be one big file (main.swf) that is 10mb.

My problem is this:

I also have a Music Player within the "main.swf" file that allows people to choose 3 different tracks.

Normally, if someone clicked on "Track 1" it would onLoad a movie containing the track, but I cant have this occuring in this case, as one of the sub sections (mentioned above) would be wiped off as such. And if someone were to go back into the"AboutUs.swf" section, then the music would stop as another movie has been loaded in?

Do you guys know what I mean?

How can I have the Music Player working properly and being able to change the tracks?

Another idea I had was if I had 2 different movies. One "MusicPlayer.swf" and one "Main.swf". However, another problem arises. The two movies need to play at the same time because they both contain animations. If the "main.swf" is 2mb, and loads after 1minute, but the "musicplayer.swf" is 50kb, and it loads after 2seconds, the whole movie looks all over the place!!!!

What can I do???

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am now officially giving up!

Please Help!

Thanks alot!

Jon

Flash Music Still Playing After Closing Tab In IE6
Music still plays after closing tab in IE6, I have to close IE all the tabs to make the music stop. Its very annoying because if I goto few sites there will be all

Playing Music With Flash And Stopping
Hi,

we are currently playing a sound file using a flash animation. The sound plays as soon as the file is loaded.

Now we want to use a cookie that users can turn that off, and will never hear the music again, until they change the setting.

Is this also possible using flash?

Thanks a lot for your help!

Regards
freeman

How To Keep Embedded Flash Music Playing After Page Changes
Please visit http://agavemexicanrestaurant.com where you will see that I have a flash music controller embedded one each page - top right.

My question is, how can I keep the music from restarting each time I visit a new page. I would prefer to have it continuously loop no matter how I click through the site.

Also, If I stop the music, I would like it to stay stopped throughout the site visit as well.

Would it be best to move the music control into its own frame, either at the top of bottom of the browser window?

Flash Keyframes: Converting Continuous To Not Continuous?
"FLASH GURU NEEDED" well someone very familiar with Flash animation and keyframes at least.

I know what they are, what they do and how they behave, but I was just wondering if there was an easier way to convert F into E in the attached image. Any ideas?

Display Music's Details As The Music Playing?
Hi

I saw something similiar at Flashkit - Sound FX, when you click on it, you would be able to play the music yet at the same time, display the music "detail", when the it high tone, the display go up high when the tone is low, the display go down?(Hope im not wrong in describing it)

http://www.flashkit.com/soundfx/Interfaces/

Can someone teach me how it work? Thanks

Playing .swf Flash Trax Without Waiting To Download Music?
Please Help!

I downloaded a Flash Player off this site. I modified it and I can get my music .swf tracks to play off my hard drive fine.

But when the seperate music data files are on the server, the music .swf tracks do play, but take a really really long time to start.

Question is:

Do I save the data.swf music files as streams or event movies. I saved the music files as seperate individual movie .swf tacks and uploaded them. Each one is abaout 4 megs. The Flash Player plays them but not right away.

How can I get the music to play as soon as the track is clicked so there is no delay.

Question On Flash Playing My Music And Protection From Download?
I am a musician and want to upload my music to my site but I don't want to have people to be able to download it. Can I upload them some way where a flash player plays them. No right click etc?

How Use A Flash Button To Close The Midi Music Playing In The Blackground?
Read the title . thank you

Flash MX Problem W/ Music Playing & Externally Loaded Swfs
Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could offer any advice on a problem I am having. I have 2 movies, one which holds a navigation menu and some music playing options, and the other which is my main movie. The main movie has an empty clip which loads the navigation and sound into it. However the music does not play in the main movie

Does anyone have any advice on why this may be?

Thanks!

Nelly

Flash Site With Music
hi, does anyone know the way to add a music player into flash site successfully?

if i add startmusic in frame1 and stopmusic in frame2, and my pages from frame 1-10 (10 pages), wouldn't stopping music bring my visitor back to frame2 (showing 2nd page) ?

Flash Site W/ Music
I have added music to an MX site but it slows down the site dramatically when the site loads now. I have noticed some sites have song clips but it there is not a delay in loading the site...how do I make for less of a delay on my site??

www.pabcconnection.org/flash_home

Please Help With Music In A Flash Site
I've made a flash site before www.hokey.co.uk
(It isn't the most efficient site in the world but I'm still learning.)

I've been asked to make a site for someone who wants to make whole music tracks/files accessible. What is the best way to go about doing this with Flash?

I've seen sites that make files availiable to download (like in the 'company' section of this site http://www.quickform.net/ ). This would be ideal.... if anyone could point me in the right direction.....??

......or how easy would it be to make music streaming players like in this site:
http://www.15megsoffame.com/

If anyone can help me I'd be a very happy person.

Can Anyone Help Me With Music In Flash Site? Please
I've made a flash site before www.hokey.co.uk
(It isn't the most efficient site in the world but I'm still learning.)

I've been asked to make a site for someone who wants to make whole music tracks/files accessible. What is the best way to go about doing this with Flash?

I've seen sites that make files availiable to download (like in the 'company' section of this site http://www.quickform.net/ ). This would be ideal.... if anyone could point me in the right direction.....??

......or how easy would it be to make music streaming players like in this site:
http://www.15megsoffame.com/

If anyone can help me I'd be a very happy person.

Music In Flash Site
I'm making a site in flash & I need to have music playing in the background of the main page that loops, but stops when a nav button is selected to go to another page.

Is this possible?

Thanks

Music On My Flash Site
hi

i realy need some help. i have put a mp3 file compressed on my flash web page but it takes a long time for the movie to start.

im not any good with action script so if anybody can help me it would be great if you would explaine how its done in a easy mode

thanks very much

Flash Site Music Player?
Hi.

I'm trying to make a music player that will play music upon peoples entry to my site.I've managed to make it so that you can turn the music off but i can't get it so that you can turn it back on again when you click a button.Can anybody help?

Thanks.

Adding Music To Flash Site
I have added music to an MX site but it slows down the site dramatically when the site loads now. I have noticed some sites have song clips but it there is not a delay in loading the site...how do I make for less of a delay on my site??

www.pabcconnection.org/flash_home

Adding Music To A Site W/ Flash
hey, i need to make it so people can go onto a page on a website and pick one of 5 or six tracks so they can listen to it without having to download it. i was told that it was most common to do this with flash, which i have but don't use.

Thanks a lot for any advice
-Aaron

How To Put A Music Selection In A Flash Site?
hi,

anybody can tell me on how to put a music selection in a flash site?

here r d sample links dt i'm talking about:

http://ccmbscoe.ifastnet.com/

http://officialkimkardashian.com/

http://liquid-body.com/

pls help me, i nid it to my project asap.

tnx
norman

Can I Add A Music Streaming Http To My Flash Site
Hello,

I've been listening to these internet radio stations that are awesome, and I was wondering if I could seemlessly play them from my website. I've got their http addresses. So, I'm wondering if there's some kind of flash music player that goes out and plays whatever is streaming from an http address.

Anyone?

Thanks in advance

Music On My Flash Site Streaming And Continuiation
ok, here's my website www.southpromotions.com

i want the tracks on my site to automaticly play the next track in line with out the person having to click next.

currently the tracks just stop, i'm not sure if it's to do with streaming, coding or what... can you help?

each track has its own flash movie so to speak in the back ground which i can do fine.

just want it to stream and play tracks automaticly and when sombody clicks next...

i only have one track on there at the moment...

thanx for your time ...please help ...lol