Flash :: External Music Files

Help With Music Files For A Rush Job
Hello everyone:

Here's the deal. I have a site for a singer and I need to include some mp3 files. The discography section contains several buttons to specific contents of each disc. Once hit, I want to have a button that plays the mp3 file for each chosen song on each disc, but here's the problem... It makes the swf file too big and the loading time eternal for 56k users!!!!! And back here 56k is still been used by too many people!

How can I make the mp3 files begin to load while the visitors check the contents of the page, so when they realize there's an audio button, it already uploaded at least half the mp3?

If anyone needs any other info, please POST!!!!!!

Here's the address of the site: www.lourdestoledo.com. It's in spanish but it's easy to navigate!

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Slowing Down Music Files
is it possible to play a music file with reduced key and tempo percentages thru actionscript?

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Loading Music Files Or Pictures
i'm making a personal sites and it will have my art work and music/songs in the links. how can i have the art work and the music/songs to NOT load until the person clicks on a button?

thanks

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Preloader For Multiple Swf Music Files
ok i guess i didn't eplain well enough the first time, here it goes again, bear with me i typed it for an email so excuse the "you's"

i am very stumped with a problem i have and i was hoping you could help. My dilema is that i am making a music player with around 51 songs, but the songs are about 2to 5 mb each so i wanted to add a preloader for them, the first part of this prroblem is that i am using a swiftmp3 equalizer so i am pretty sure that you have to use a loader.loadmovie function to make the equalizer work, correct me if i am wrong, secondly i am trying to make a preloader for multiple .swf's so that all can use the same one, as you can see it would get very time and space consuming with 51 songs but it is hard to interpret all this coding as i am a complete noob when it comes to action scripting. I don't even know what a MyCache is. I have a preloader made but i can't seem to get it to work for what i am trying to do. Here is what i want to happen:
Click on a number >
Display Loading Bar for external swf >
Once loaded display song info and have working equalizer

So basically i want a version of your external preloader that works for 51 songs that also work for the SwiftMP3 equalizer bars. Since i am such an idiot when it comes to hand coding i was hoping you could help me out alot,

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Downloadable Music Files On A Site
I want to include some short, edited examples of music for a musician’s site I am building. What is the best sound format to offer for people to download?
Thanks

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Music Files Not Loading/playing
I'm making an mp3 player that uses xml to load in the the names of all the bands /ablums/songs into flash. it works perfectly fine on my own computer. and when i load it to the server (which is on my computer), and use a web browser to go straight to the swf file it works fine... but i tried putting a link to it on another website... my myspace page.. and now the xml loads in all the data, but it wont play the songs, it just keeps saying in the status bar of the browser that it is watiting for my server... can anyone please help me?

Kyle

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Creating An Array Of Music Files Help Please.
I am new to actionscript 3.0 and not to sure about the way i would go around this, any information you can give will be greatly appreciated.

I am trying to create an array of short music files. i would then like to create a random number and then play the sound which is in the position of the random number.

At the moment i am trying to just get the sound files to play before i try using the random number. The code is shown below, i know it is not right and that there must be more to add but i am unsure as to what that is so any help is greatly appreciated. the code i have is as follows:

ActionScript Code:
var array:Array = new Array("notes/A1.wav","notes/A#1.wav");
array[0].play();

thankyou for any help you can provide
Darren Rutter.

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M4a Music Files Playable In Flash
Are m4a music files playable in Flash? Or do they have to converted to mp3? (if so, is there software availabe to do this?)

G

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Music Files In Flash MX 2004
I know flash can support mp3 and wav files, but is there a way to import .mid or .wma files?

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Multiple Music Files & Buttons (w/ Cookies?)
Hello,

I am a noob when dealing with flash and I dont quite know how to solve my problem. I dont really know which forum this question would best fit into, so I'll just post it in the noob forum.

I have music playing on my website, but I need to do a few things with it and I dont know how to do them all.

1) I want 3 buttons at the top of the screen: Song1, Song2, and Stop.

2) I want Song1 to immediately play when the user enters the website.

3) I want Song2 to begin preloading when the user enters the website.

4) Whichever song is playing, its respective button should be "down"... IE. If Song2 is playing the Song2 button should look different thatn the others so that the user knows what song is being played.

5) Perhaps the most difficult part of this question... (please help me with 1-4 first before trying to explain this one because otherwise I wont follow) I need this button to use cookies that remember which setting the user last selected, because of the way my website is setup if they turn the sound off, whenever they refresh or visit another page, the sound will begin playing again.

I know this can be done with embedding the sound within the .swf and also with loading external files.... Im pretty indefferent as to which method is used, but I think external files would probably be better.

Ive looked around forever for tutorials about this, but all I can find is "how to make a button" and "how to turn on/off music".... I cant find anything that tells how to do it with multiple music files and how to make the button stay different when that particular song is playing...

So if you guys know any tutorials or would even like to explain something yourself, it would be much appreciated...

Thanks,
Greken

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Multiple Music Files & Buttons (w/ Cookies?)
Hello,

Im sorta a noob when dealing with flash and I dont quite know how to solve my problem.

I have music playing on my website, but I need to do a few things with it and I dont know how to do them all.

1) I want 3 buttons at the top of the screen: Song1, Song2, and Stop.

2) I want Song1 to immediately play when the user enters the website.

3) I want Song2 to begin preloading when the user enters the website.

4) Whichever song is playing, its respective button should be "down"... IE. If Song2 is playing the Song2 button should look different thatn the others so that the user knows what song is being played.

5) Perhaps the most difficult part of this question... (please help me with 1-4 first before trying to explain this one because otherwise I wont follow) I need this button to use cookies that remember which setting the user last selected, because of the way my website is setup if they turn the sound off, whenever they refresh or visit another page, the sound will begin playing again.

I know this can be done with embedding the sound within the .swf and also with loading external files.... Im pretty indefferent as to which method is used, but I think external files would probably be better.

Ive looked around forever for tutorials about this, but all I can find is "how to make a button" and "how to turn on/off music".... I cant find anything that tells how to do it with multiple music files and how to make the button stay different when that particular song is playing...

So if you guys know any tutorials or would even like to explain something yourself, it would be much appreciated...

Thanks,
Greken

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Play Same Music File Having Various Html Or Swf Files
I do have various html and swf files to play my cdbook and I want a track that plays ever and ever from begining to end with no stop when click a link to the next swf or htlm file, how can I do that?

......thanks

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Loading Screen For Multiple Music Files
I'm creating a game that has lots of differant background music for differant types of level.

However on the begining pre-loader I want to have seperate loading bar for the sounds. (bar 1 is move preloader and bar 2 is the sounds preloader).

I had the idea of adding all the getBytesTotal() from the music files at the start and have a variable that constantly upadtes with all the getBytesLoaded() added together, then I add the usual divide total by loaded and times my 100 then round.
That code is as follows:

Code:
onClipEvent(load) {
totalBytes = 0;
loadedBytes = 0;
loadedPercentage = 0;
for(var i = 0; i < 5; i ++) {
_root["bgSound"+i] = new Sound();
_root["bgSound"+i].loadSound("mp3/music"+i+".mp3");
totalBytes += _root["bgSound"+i].getBytesTotal();
}
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
loadedBytes = 0;
for(var n = 0; n < 5; n ++) {
loadedBytes += _root["bgSound"+n].getBytesLoaded();
}
loadedPercentage = (loadedBytes/totalBytes)*100;
loadedPercentage = Math.round(loadedPercentage);
_root.displayText = "Loaded Music: "+loadedPercentage+"%";
}
But what I really want to find out is how can I say also how many files have completely loaded out of hte total eg:

Code:
displayText = "Loaded Music Files: "+filesLoaded+"/"+filesTotal;
displayText += "
Loaded Mus... etc
Is it possible using the code that I have, to actually say how many files have loaded as well as the overall percentage??

thanks anyone that can help

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PRE-LOADER For Intro, Mp3 Audio, Swf Music Files
hi everyone,

Im working on using pre-loaders for an intro which i need to burn onto a CD, as there it quite alot of media going onto it.

So can someone please advise and help me on the following:

1. Intro - I movie clips on the timeline which need a pre-laoder, when burned onto CD the song which is on the timeline.

2. Mp3 Audio jukebox - i have used actionscript within an array to load the songs files within the same folder when burned onto CD it takes a long time to buffer..

3. I have movie swfs which are externally loaded into the main .fla however when run from .exe its clear that due to the size of the .swfs, the time it takes to buffer is quite substantial. I looks really bad as the user must wait a considerable time.

Its not possible for me to upload my files as they are very big, however i would really appreciate it if someone could give me some advice as to the Asctionscript that needs to be used to get all of th eaobve loaded at a quick rate.

thank you

Zip

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Targeting External Files To Text Files In Flash
Gooday all

I am developing a flash site for a movie company and it needs to be 100% dynamic! and must be flash 5 compatible

To put things as simply as I can here goes.

I have a directors page - on this page I have two text fields.
The first text field pulls all the directors names from an external file called directors.html, In this external file I have html hyperlinks which link to each directors bio text (in another external text file), what I want to do is basically target the second text field in flash. i.e. when you are in flash and click one of the directors names his info must appear in the adjacent text field.

you follow?

THIS DOESNT LOOK LIKE A COW!

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Loading External Text Files With Links To .swf Files
i am loading a external text file with html links. I would like to know if anyone out there know how to make those links load .swf files, that would work with the levels hierarchy of the original level0 file. I tried passing a variable that would be detected by a movie clip on EnterFrame but no success, maybe I had written something wrong. Loading just the swf file will replace the html page on the browser.

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Protect Music Files Used By Flash Jukebox Prog.
Hi,
I have a little jukebox movie in Flash that simply plays up to five tracks on my site. I do not want the files to be easily downloadable by anyone who figures out my file structure, but I don't know how to make the files accessible to Flash but inaccessible to a browser.

Is there a way (using Actionscript or otherwise) to limit access to certain files on a webserver so that only Flash can use them?

Thanks.

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Protect Music Files Used By Flash Jukebox Prog.
Hi,
I have a little jukebox movie in Flash that simply plays up to five tracks on my site. I do not want the files to be easily downloadable by anyone who figures out my file structure, but I don't know how to make the files accessible to Flash but inaccessible to a browser.

Is there a way to limit access to certain files on a webserver so that only Flash can use them?

Thanks.

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Multiple External Text .txt Files In Different Swf Files
I'm trying to have several external files (txt or html) attached to a several swf flash files, loading in different levels of one main movie, for easy updating.

Example is: loadVariablesNum("ext-track.txt", 0);
This I can do, partly working.

Say you click the button for "about" that loads that flash file (in a layer), it fails to load in the relevant external file (the movie loads just not the external text file).

When you open up the "about.swf" on its own, it loads up the external file no problem. It just fails to do it when I am loading it from the main swf movie file that then loads this in a layer.

I can get all the text files working by putting in all the loadVariable parts in the main movie but I need them put into their relevant swf movies.

Does that make sense?

How do you correct, something to do with layers or targetting? I'm sure it'll be easy for you guys, Actionscript ain't my thing.

Thanks.

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FLASH - Flv Files & Importing External Files
Note: this is trying to be done all in Flash... please be patient as I have to explain it...

Here's the scenario... I am currently building a website for a coffee company, and as an introduction to their website, they want to play a short clip of 16 seconds, size 350x250 - fine... The real problem is that I have been asked to make it appear as if it was actual footage on TV - in effect, at super high quality with NO (and I mean, NO) Pixelation... very stringent, but they think I can somehow push the boundaries and work something out!! Also they wish for it to play as soon as the website begins (no chance of preloading!!) - without an option for the user to control the film (as in no play/stop/rew buttons, etc.)

In order to create this, I had to use Final Cut Pro - as this was the only program that passed the 'test' for what was asked... the client has a major issue with the 'fade' to black sections of the film - believing them to look as if they are shimmering (this also being the initial problem with building it directly in Flash). I passed this through all types of compression to achieve the smallest possible file (12MG) - and then from Quick Time Pro - I came up with an immaculate looking, but incredibly large flv file - using the export feature. Total... 82MB, yes MB...

Please note, I am fully aware of compression, but have to iterate this incredible request!!

Rather than attach it to the timeline in Flash, I placed the created FLV file in the same folder and requested on the first line of the timeline - through Actionscript - that it plays the FLV 'progressively'. To my understanding, this file should play whilst not having to load up before hand... (learnt of this from Macromedia website.)
I have seen this method used in a few tutorials, but admittedly the file sizes are approximately 5MB...

After uploading the file (took over an hour), I tested the film and it began to play extremely slow and choppy. After 16 seconds (the expected duration of the clip) the next scene in the timeline began !! The film had actually only progressed about 3 seconds into itself....

I don't think I am necessarily doing much wrong as it is the best solution that I could come up with in terms of keeping the final 'SWF' file to a minimum size so a user will not have to wait it to load up (got Flash files to 24MB - but still too long to load up!!!)

Can anyone think of an alternative method to playing an 82 MB file, or is this just plain ridiculous??

I am at a loss because I am still curious to see if this is actually feasible... if so then maybe you will help me push the boundaries of Internet viewing!!!

ALL comments/suggested will be highly appreciated and definitely considered

Okolom

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[F8] External Text Files Wont Load Into External Swf File...
Hi,

I'm making a Flash website in Flash 8 (mac).

Structure: There is 1 main file that loads external SWF files depending on what is clicked on.

One of the external SWF files loads its text from external text files. This works fine when viewing the SWF applet on its own. But when viewing as a whole site, the text doesnt appear. Very annoying.

I made that particular SWF on my mums computer running Flash MX 2004. The flash file itself uses the Scrollbar component from MX.

Could someone tell me why the text doesnt load in this scenario? It runs fine on its own, just not as an external SWF.

I've attached the files in question. Its a 200kb ZIP download. Do tell me if you need to know more.

Thanks

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how can i load in different music files (external swf files)into flash.. and control them in my flash site ???

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whats the code to load in an external music file to stream

its like new sound("dfafdaf.mp3"); or something

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Loading External Music
how do you load external music.. i know the loadMovieNum ("something.mp3", 0); ... i know that much but how do you get it to play.. if this is hard to do just reply with hard to do thanks...but if it is sorta easy the by all means tell me =)

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Buffering External Music
does anyone have any information or code
that buffers streaming audio from an external .swf?

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Buffering An External SWF With Music
Can anyone point me in the direction of a way to buffer the audio in an external SWF so it streams instead of completely downloading to the browser before it starts playing? I have a preloader in the files, but the music won't start until it's completely downloaded, which makes the preloader (or buffer) useless.

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Playing External Music
im making a little flash movie that visitors can use to navigate around my website, and i want some music in the background to go with it. everything works fine with the music, except the fact that the file size is over 4000KB. if i take out the music it goes down to a mere 12KB.

is there any way of making flash play a external music file (ie on a webserver)so that the file size is still low?

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Best Way To Load An External Swf For Music?
Hey guys, looking for a good way to load an external swf for an MP3 player on my Church's website.

Anyone have any ideas? I don't want to have to load it at the beginning, so that's why I'm using an external swf.

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Controlling Music In External Swf's
I have been searching the web up and down for two days straight without any results.

I've built a music player which can be seen here: http://www.pixelfrogmusic.com/

The player calls music from external swf's. Each track is stored in a separate swf (Event). As you notice, the pause button stops the music (StopAllSounds) instead of pausing it, and the play button doesn't work. I have not even been able to get to the forward and rewind buttons yet.

What I'm trying to do is to pause and play the music (for a start). I have been able to do this with streaming sounds, but not with Event sounds. Due to the lack of quality I cannot steam the music. I need CD quality music.

Is there a way to start and pause an event sound in an external swf with buttons that are placed in the main movie?

I have found several tuts with similar issues, but none of them covers external swf event sounds.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Loading External Music
Well I am trying to Load a external music SWF file and the file loads great but the music doesn't play. I am using this code
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on (release) {
_root.contents.loadMovie("data.swf");
}
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So now I dont know what to do. If you guys have any suggestions on what is the best way to load music the FASTES way to do if possible (Fastes I mean is the Loading time) If you guys know a better way please show me Thank you very much

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Load External Music File
HI guys,

I've been working on this for a couple of hoours now,
but still i don't get it...

the problem:
When I load my site everything works, the preloader, de popup screens from the buttons.

But when i put a loadmovie(music.swf....(etc)) in the main movie with a target, it somehow loads but doesn't play the sound.

Does anyone recognize this or now how to fix this...

You can have a look at the site at http://www.geocities.com/vitas9000/
(sorrt for the stupid geocities part, well gotta test it somewhere.

for teh guys who want to help me i have placed a download on the site where you can download de fla from the musicfile and you can test it.

P.S. when you come back again, then it works.

Many Thanx Frank

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Problem Loading External Swf With Music In It
Hi,

If anyone can help me with this, that would be great.

I've got a main swf and another swf that holds a music loop (music.swf). In the main swf, when it has completely loaded, the first frame of the 1st scene after the preloader has the following code:

loadMovieNum ("music.swf", 1);

Then the rest of the scene's animations run until told to stop.

Currently, when I load up the main swf, the music.swf doesn't load up, even after leaving it for a long time (over 1 minute) - I'm running it off cable connection too. However, once I hit the refresh button, the music plays. The size of the music.swf is only 49K.

the music.swf has it's own preloader in it too so that viewers know that something is loading, but it ain't happening. Please help as I'm puzzled.

Thanks,

Chris.

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Im designing a website that has the option for 3 music loops as background music. On the site, I have 3 buttons (1, 2 and 3) which each load a swf with an mp3 on the first frame as streaming and with fade in (from the sound properties). A fourth button simply unloads the external swf.
Till now everything works fine, the problem is that my client wants the music to fade out when unloaded or when another one is loaded.

Is there a way I can control with a button on the main swf, that the music on the external swf will fade out and then unload?

thanks! I hope someone can help...

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External Music Files

I currently use: Code: mySound = new Sound(); mySound.loadSound("music.mp3",true); 1.) How do I set the number of loops? 2.) What is the Actionscript code to unload the sound?

I currently use:

Code:
mySound = new Sound();
mySound.loadSound("music.mp3",true);
1.) How do I set the number of loops?
2.) What is the Actionscript code to unload the sound?