Flash :: Sound Object Funkiness W/ A 2nd Streaming Audio File

Streaming Audio / Sound (object) / Radio, Etc.
I'm trying to make a flash movie that's essentially like a radio that streams mp3s. Ideally, it would function like the one on http://www.superhere.net.

I'm trying to figure out how to use Sound objects to make a dynamically-loading playlist sort of deal, with the soundOnComplete method, but I can't get sound objects to work for me period.

I don't know what's wrong, but I'll try to come up with some questions. Where should I be writing out the ActionScript? In its own layer in the main movie, or should it be attached to a symbol?

I'm pretty much a novice, so please excuse me if I sound like a moron.

Thanks a lot for your time.

Streaming Audio Loads, But No Sound
Hi all!

This is my first post here after reading these forums for a few weeks. I am having a problem with an audio player i made.

Basically, the file plays fine when i "test movie" in flash2004MX v7, but when i upload the swf and mp3, i can't hear any sound. Windows Task Manager Networking is indicating that the files are downloading fine! I've tried on a few different (very fast) servers, but i get the same problem. I have flash player 7 installed, by the way. Any help would be much appreciated, as i'm quickly approaching a deadline on this project!!

here is the basic gist of the code i'm using:

global_song = new Sound;
global_song.stop();
global_song.loadSound("track1.mp3",true);
global_song.start();

Creating A Sound Site That Has Streaming Audio
Hi. I'm not sure of where to post this question, but here goes:
I would like to create a website that allows users to upload mp3 files and then a flash file is generated from that on the fly and is available for other users to preview the file prior to downloading. Similar to what Flashkit offers in their Sound Loops section now. Is there a server package that allows this, or could someone point me in the right direction of a tutorial that may assist me in developing a site such as this? I would like to build the site is ASP or PHP. Thanks in advance for any advice

michelle

Streaming AUDIO From .ASX File
Hi guys

Is there a way to stream audio from an .ASX file?

Bcoz here ate work are planing to have our WEBRADIO station to play at the company website as soon its loaded.

So i wonder if there's any way t make it on flash CS3

The player doest have to be showed to the user tho.

Tks in advance

Streaming Audio In MX With XML File
Hi!

I have created a playlist where the user can play, stop, forward, and reverse audiotracks (+volumeslider and tracktitledisplay). It is all good when the audiosources are in the same folder as the .fla file (using a XML file to "send" tracktitle and source).

Now I'm looking for a way to stream these audiofiles.
Anyone got a comment why it doesn't work to replace the sourcename (in the XML file) with an URL-source?

Any help on this would be very much appreciated...

XML:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<playlist>
<track
title="Beatiful"
scr="http://www.appelbom/sound/Creed - Beautiful.mp3"/>

<track
title="Gough"
src="gough.mp3"/>

<track
title="Tyalgum"
src="tyalgum.mp3"/>
</playlist>

ActionScript:

//Create arrays to store URL and title data for the mp3's
playlist = new Array();
trackTitles = new Array();

//Import the XML data
var xmlObject = new XML();
xmlObject.ignoreWhite = true; //Ignores any white spaces
xmlObject.load("mp3.xml"); //This is where the XML data is loaded from an xmlObject file in the same directory
xmlObject.onLoad = makePlaylist; //when the XML file has fully loaded, the function will start

//Function to create a list of url's and titles for mp3's
function makePlaylist(){
for (var i=0; i<xmlObject.firstChild.childNodes.length; i++) { //The number of nodes in the XML determines how many tracks
playList[i]=xmlObject.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.src;
trackTitles[i]=xmlObject.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.title;
}
currentTrack = 0;
//Display trackTitle in dynamic textField
_root.trackTitle = trackTitles[currentTrack];
maxTracks = playList.length - 1;
startStreaming();
trace("currentTrack " + currentTrack);
trace("trackTitle = " + _root.trackTitle);
trace("trackTitles [0] " + trackTitles[0]);
}

//Function for streaming and looping the playlist
function startStreaming() {
_root.trackTitle = trackTitles[currentTrack];
mp3 = new Sound();
mp3.loadsound(playList[currentTrack], true);

slider.control._y = -50;
slider.control.onEnterFrame = function() {
mp3.setVolume(0-this._y);
}
slider.control.onPress = function() {
startDrag(this, false, this._x, -100, this._x, 0);
}
slider.control.onRelease = function() {
stopDrag();
}

mp3.onSoundComplete = function() {

currentTracks ++;
if (currentTracks > maxTracks) {
currentSong = 0 }

delete mp3;
mp3 = new Sound();
mp3.loadSound(playList[currentTracks], true);
}
}

function playDirection(direction) {
stopAllSounds();
if(direction == 1) {
currentTrack++;
} else {
currentTrack--;
}

if (currentTrack > maxTracks){
currentTrack = 0;
}
if (currentTrack < 0){
currentTrack = maxTracks;
}

startStreaming();
}

stop();

Streaming Sound Distorted - Sound Object
I have a streaming sound that is loaded into my flash movie (will end up on CD) that is very distorted, it sounds like someone is slowing down the audio, the voice sounds deep and slow. its kinda funny, but I doubt my boss will think so.

anyone ever run into this before?

Streaming Large Audio File
I have a large audio file that I want to synchronize with the animation of my movie. I know in order to best accomplish this, I should choose "stream" for the sync.

Should I just drag the file onto the stage on the keyframe that I want it to begin, or is there a smarter way of handling the audio when synchronizing?

Also, is there a better way of synchronizing the animation with the audio other than maticulously starting and stopping the playhead to find the particular points in the audio to sync with?

Streaming LLoooooonnngg Audio File
Hello,

I have this little interface that has a stop, pause, and play button to play some streaming audio. It also has a slider bar so that they can rewind or fast forward through the audio. Here's the problem... The audio is 1 hour long. I have a little ticker that counts how many minutes the audio has been played, so if they are in the middle, the ticker will read "30:00".

When the ticker reaches 21 minutes, it stops ticking and I can't slide the slider bar forward. However, the audio keeps playing. To stream audio you have to have as many frames in the timeline as there is in the audio. So I have something like 70,000 frames in my movie... maybe even more.

My thought is that the timeline isn't built for that many frames, so the streaming keeps going even if the timeline is out of space. My question is, is there any way to do this? I think I have to stream the audio to be able to keep the play and pause button as well as the slider. I borrowed this little interface and have attached it here for you to view. It calls a seperate sound file that is the entire audio stretched out across the timeline.

Also, How does Window's media player or any other default media player stream these long audio files? I would just put an mp3 out there, but then I don't want people to have to download players or not know which player they are using. Our audience gets confused pretty easily! 99% of them have the flash player installed, so that's why I want to use a swf to play these files. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Streaming Audio File Format
Hello folks,

I make a simple audio player, with play/pause button, and works great for straming a mp3 file but donÂ´t work for a .wav file, the Flash support .wav type file for streaming?

thanks

How Can I Fade Out A Streaming Audio File?
Hi all,
  I have a flash file that utilizes the "//Load Streaming mp3 behavior" ( found in Windows/Behaviors/Sound/Load mp3 Streaming File ) on a keyframe in the timeline.

  That part works just fine.  For now, I have a button that utilizes the "//stopAllSounds Behavior".  That part works fine too.. however, I don't like the abrupt sound stoppage.  I'd really like to have the streaming file fade out instead of stop suddenly.  I don't care whether this happens via a button behavior or on a keyframe.  Right now I'd like to use whichever is easiest because my ActionScripting knowledge is really poor.

Here's the link to the site I am building ( still rough ).  The flame pit is the audio on/off switch.

http://www.abrohn.com/bombsquad/html/home.htm

Thanks for your help!

URGENT Seeking Template For Streaming Audio With Sound Controls
Hi there dudes!
oki hehe im in deep **** and have a serious time deadline to get done a flash presentation which would need a play button, pause, stop, fwd and rewind button..

In short i need to sync about 3 mins of speak with animation in flash, i use flash MX.

I have kind of a working template now but my problem is the rewind buttons..if i hold down the rewind button for too long in the speak and animation my flash gets stuck..the current file im working with you see has 3 scenes..and in scene 3 is where i have the controls buttons and speak..what almost happens is that when i hold down the rewind button for too long it goes to the previous scene and gets stuck..so this has to be somehow fixed..wondering if anyone has a working control buttons like this that arent buggy...

kindly email me asap...or if you have a link or template id be so greatful!!cheers!

c

How To Make An On/Off Sound Button That Works For Multiple Streaming Audio?
Hello Flashmeisters!

I am having some trouble making a button that will resume the sound in my Flash Animation.

I have an animation that is spread over several Layers and several Scenes. I also have sound clips (mp3s) placed on different layers, in many different areas. I was able to make a button that when pressed stops all the sound by using this simple actionscript:

on (release) {
stopAllSounds();
}

My goal is to have a button so users can stop and resume streaming sound at any time throught the animation.

However I can't seem to make a button that after it stops the sound, when pressed again would resume the sound. I have seen some tutorials that explain how to stop and start a single audio file, but how can I make a button that will stop and resume multiple streaming audio files that are placed in several different places?

I made the script below up and was wondering if there is an existing simple actionscript code that would be similar to it that would work for when a button is pressed it would resume the sound?

on (release) {
PlayAllSounds();
}

Many thanks! And any help will be HUGELY apprecaited!

Marsy

Streaming Sound Object
Help, please!

I've got a short intro for a web app that includes a streaming sound using Sound.load into a dummy movieclip

I'm having trouble getting that sound to stop streaming if the user wants to skip the intro.

Any suggestions?

Sound Object (streaming) - Mac | PC
Hi guys. It's me, emerging from the depths of the backend forum and blinking in the sunlight ...

I have made a little audio stream Flash movie. It works fine on my Mac (OS X), on Safari, Firefox and IE/Mac. It plays the sound, and updates the display with the amount of time played, how much of the sound has been streamed, etc. All as it should.

However, when I try it on Windows box (XP) in either Firefox or IE, it doesn't play the sound. In Firefox it streams it but won't play it; in IE, it won't even stream it.

What's going on? Is there some difference between the behaviour of the Flash player on the Mac and on PC?

This is the line of code I am using to load in the sound from the server and start it playing. 'this' is the object that handles the data and events surrounding it;'this.sound' is the actual Sound object; and 'this.url' is the href of the MP3 file.

Code:
this.sound.loadSound(this.url, true);
I don't have an explicit call to start() but I shouldn't need one, should I, if I'm streaming the audio ... what really puzzles me is why it works in my Mac but not my PC. And it's not just my PC either, it's also broken on my mate's PC (he is running IE).

Very, very confused. Help!

Streaming Audio Makes File Huge
Hi!
I'm a beginner at this so I'm mostly experimenting my way forward.
I am trying to build a small audio control center for my website.
I stumbeld on to two problems.

The first on is that since I import the music file, a mp3 file, the swf is about 3.5 MB large. That takes a while to load.
There has to be another way to implement the music file so that it doesn't have to be loaded when the swf loads but can load while streaming?
What I've done is simply import it to my movie and then added a function to my play button wich says: "sync = start"

Problem number two is the control part.
Say I have 5 songs (again the issue with swf size) and I want buttons for going though the playlist: Play, Stop, pervious, next.
I have managed to create play and stop but they are specific for one track: they start/stop one file.

Problem is: If I am listening to another track, how do I tell my stop button to stop that track? And how do I tell my start button to start say track 2 instead of track 1 wich is default.
And how do I navigate though the tracks with prev/next buttons since they have to be somewhat dynamic aswell: if at track 2 next would be track 3 but if at track 4 next is track 5?

Atm I have the swf at http://nordenfelt.thinkdot.de/winamp.php but it takes a while to load the file since the swf is so big

Happy with any help I can get with this =)
Would be a really nice feature on my site if I can get it to work.

Regards, Carl Nordenfelt

PS. Explain everything to me like I am a 3 years old child =) DS.

Video/audio Streaming With Same File And Interaction
Greetings,

Not a flash beginner, but not an expert either, but I do have a project that I would like to do this for. I was wondering if there were any tutorials or somebody could point me in the right direction for this.

What I would like to do is stream a movie file in flash, but also use the same source file, hopefully an mpg (perhaps an m4a), to just stream the audio. any way for flash to extract and play only the audio channel of the movie? I'd also like to use the same file for podcasting. I know how to do audio, but not video, and not in this particular way.

additionally, does anybody know if I can add interactivty to the flash, that is, display certain notes along with the broadcast within the flash file?

thanks for any direction, it is appreciated.

Sound Object > To Play While Streaming
Hi Guys,

I had a question. So now I am streaming an mo3 file using the sound object (loadSound function) ...

So the mp3 is loading (and I have a progress bar showing the percentage loaded) and while it is loading it is being played. Now, when the playhead (the location being played) reaches the end of whatever has been download, it goes to the beginning (repeats). I am looking for a way to make the sound pause once it reaches the end, and then wait until a reasonable amount has been downlaoded, so that it may continue playing again. I hope I was clear.

Thanks !!!

Sound Object Issue: Streaming And Methods
with streaming mp3s...

CALLING ALL SOUND OBJECT ACTIONSCRIPT EXPERTS!
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY USEFUL INFORMATION THEY CAN SHARE?

The problem:
In the case of dragging a playhead pointer, I can stop the Sound Object ( works ) and then I want to restart it at the pointers position. I am using the start(offSet,loop) method. Does the start method NOT work with streaming sounds?

Also, I'm guessing that the start method would all work better if I assigned a linkage ID to the sound i want to control...but I don't think that is possible with loading mp3's dynamically. I am using...

Code:
track1.onRelease=function(){
if(!soundplaying){
currenttrack="mp3/intromusicloop.mp3";
soundplaying=true;
playingsound.loadSound(currenttrack,true);
}
}
-Obviously i can't set a linkage from there as the sound is coming via the loadSound method.

I"m not looking for answers just information to understand what is going on when otherwise all my scripts look fine. I thought may be there may be some peculiar properties going on that are undocumented.

Thanks in Advance!!!

Multiple Audio Files With One Sound Object?
So, theres the simple way to play an audio file:

mySound = new Sound();
mySound.attachSound("some_song.mp3");
mySound.start();

I'm trying to set up a play list. I've got a couple ideas on how to do this, but they're not straight forward. I would imagine there is something set up in Flash to do this easily, but I'm finding nothing.

Any ideas out there?

Thanks,
Steve

PS - The emoticon isn't expressing an emotion for me, I just find it pretty entertaining.

Streaming A WMA Sound File From Flash
Hey I'm creating a site for DJ's and i need to know how I can make a flash button open and play a WMA file?

Thanks for any help.

Stop Sound File Early (using Sound Object)
I know I can use the play() method of the Sound object to offset the beginning of a sound. Ex:

mySound.play(2000) - plays the sound beginning at 2 seconds

Is there a way to get a sound to stop early? For example, if it is a 20-second sound, can I get it to stop at 18 seconds? Thanks!

Problem With Streaming Sound From Local File
I have a flash movie, and at 2 points in the movie, music streams in.

In the very first frame on its own layer I have the following script

mySound_sound = new Sound ();
mySound_sound.loadSound ("song1.mp3", true);
mySound_sound.setVolume(100);

Then later on for the second piece of music I have this on its own layer

mySound_sound = new Sound ();
mySound_sound.loadSound ("song2.mp3", true);
mySound_sound.setVolume(100);

The .swf file and the two songs are in the same folder, all the file names are exact, and on my pc it all works FINE,

BUT the minute you copy and paste the folder onto someone else’s computer, the first song doesn’t play. The second one works perfectly, but the movie is not finding the first song in the local folder! ANY ideas why this is happening cos I have none?!
Thank you for any ideas

Streaming Flv File Can Hear Sound But No Picture...
Hello friends!

I'm doing something wrong, I believe, I can see flv files if I use the flash component - but I want/need to load it with AS.

When I load the FLV via code, the video plays its sound, but no image... I'm a bit lost as to what I am missing...

I've tried other example code, like this:

Code:
function playVid(flvname) {
this.connection_nc = new NetConnection();
this.connection_nc.connect(null);
this.stream_ns = new NetStream(this.connection_nc);
my_video.attachVideo(this.stream_ns);
this.stream_ns.setBufferTime(5);
this.stream_ns.play(flvname);
}
playVid("test.flv");
stop();
Does this need to be on an object? Its currently on the stage/frame1.
Thanks for your help!!!

Seb.

Problem W/ Sound Object File Loading Into A Holder File
Hi all,

I have a 4 mb file that I am loading into a main holder file. I am using loadmovienum to do this. In the 4mb file that i am loading in, i am using a sound object to control and play my audio.

Problem: when i publish the holder file, the 4 mb file loads just fine, but the audio doesn't play.

What Gives?

Extract Audio From .fls (Flash Sound Bundle File)
Greetings!

I would like to ask if it's possible to unbundle a Flash Sound Bundle file? I've downloaded FlashLiteBundler.exe to check if it can also unbundle, but it could not. A client wants to reuse their audio files from a previous project, but alas, they could only give us files of .fls format.

Any ideas on how I can go about this?

Peace!

Edited: 01/28/2009 at 06:57:44 PM by spread_peace

Important Small Flash File Into Logic Audio For Sound Animation?
important small flash file into logic audio for sound animation?

is this possible?

Flash Audio Player For Streaming Audio
I am working on our church's website and am trying to add mp3 sermons for our visitors to listen to. I have a player that I downloaded but is has some problems, for some reason it will play 2 files at the same time, sometimes it says file not found and I am not sure why. I do not have the FLA file just the SWF that was on the website for download so I can't make any changes. Can anyone tell me how to make a flash audio player with play, stop, pause, rewind and fast forward buttons. Or if anyone has a sample player that I could use for my church, I need it as small as possible and do not need a playlist. Any help would be great.

Sound Object "music Off" Turns Off Flv Audio
this im sure is very noob, but i cant figure it out...
here is my code for the sound object. its in a mc, dropped on the main timeline. the videos are in an mc on the main timeline.
onClipEvent(load)
{
_root.soundstatus="on";
_root.mySound = new Sound(_level0);
_root.mySound2 = new Sound(_level1);
_root.mySound3 = new Sound(_level2);
_root.mySound4 = new Sound(_level3);
_root.mySound5 = new Sound(_level4);
maxvolume=100;
minvolume=0;
}

onClipEvent(enterFrame)
{
if(_root.soundstatus=="on") {step=5}
if(_root.soundstatus=="off") {step=-5}

maxvolume+=step;

if (maxvolume>100) {maxvolume=100;}
if (maxvolume<0) {maxvolume=0;}

_root.mySound.setVolume(maxvolume);
_root.mySound2.setVolume(maxvolume);
_root.mySound3.setVolume(maxvolume);
_root.mySound4.setVolume(maxvolume);
_root.mySound5.setVolume(maxvolume);
}

RE-loading Funkiness
Hey everybody,

I usually don't have much trouble with loading images, but I'm running into a funky artifact. I'm loading a bunch of thumbnail images, whose names/paths i'm getting from a .txt file that I load. I have a listener attached to a movie clip loader, and on the last image loaded, i add an onLoadComplete function to place all the clips that came in. Each is placed 20 px to the right of the previous image (prevImage._x+prevImage._width+20). Now the first time you access the page, no sweat, they all pop up on the bottom down there and are placed evenly and everything is fine. Now the wierd part is when you refresh the page, the images are placed differently, 20 px to the right of the previous image's _x position, as if the width were now 0. If you clear the cache and reload though, it'll look right again.

Here's the page
http://gatheringofwaters.com/index3.html

and here's the code
code: function drawThumbs(){
portfolio.createEmptyMovieClip("thumbnails",portfo lio.getNextHighestDepth());
var clip:MovieClip = portfolio.thumbnails;
for(i=0;i<_root.thumbTotal;i++){
clip.createEmptyMovieClip("thumb"+i,clip.getNextHi ghestDepth());
thumb_i = _root.thumbsArray[i][0];
name_i = _root.thumbsArray[i][1];
var loader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var listener:Object = new Object();
loader.loadClip("images/Thumbs/"+thumb_i, clip["thumb"+i]);
if(i == _root.thumbTotal-1){
listener.onLoadComplete = function(){
for(i=0;i<_root.thumbTotal;i++){
var thisClip:MovieClip = _root.portfolio.thumbnails["thumb"+i];
var lastClip:MovieClip = _root.portfolio.thumbnails["thumb"+(i-1)];
thisClip._x = lastClip._x + lastClip._width + 20;
thisClip._y = -70;
thisClip.piece = _root.thumbsArray[i][1];
thisClip.pencil = _root.thumbsArray[i][2];
trace(thisClip.piece);
thisClip.onPress = function(){
trace(this.piece+" : "+this.pencil);
}
}
}
}
loader.addListener(listener);
}
}

I know this is alot to look at, but I'd really appreciate if one of you old pros could help me out.

Thanks.

_b

F8 - Background Funkiness...
I have a background of dark blue. When I run the swf movie, a background of gray appears and then near the end of the movie, it changes to blue. I can select any key frame and the stage is dark blue and cannot see a transistion point. Any ideas?
Thanks!

F8 - Streaming Audio From Streaming Server Help
Any one have any ideas why my streaming audio wont play? I trying to stream audio .mp3's from a streaming server. This way it is not a progressive download and cache.

But I can not seem to get the audio to play through my audio player. any thoughts? Or maybe someone can point me in the right direction?

thanks!

Can I Reach Sound Object In Another Swf:file From The Main Movie.
My client want to have a big presentation on the web with speakervoice and big pictures. So i´m going to use the possibilty to loaad movie in a empty movieclip. So its going to be alot of swf:files to load in the main(index) movie.

My problem is that i want to have a "one" button (in the main movie) that can stop all sounds. Even those swf:files (contents) that i load that have speakervoice on it.

is it possible? please help me.

Streaming Audio
Please help me before I pull what little hair I have left out. Can somebody give me a simple step-by-step guide to installing streaming audio into a flash file. So far, I have only been able to set it up so that it has to completely download before it plays. That takes way too long.
I Have also read about re-compressing mp3 files to make them smaller, how can I do that. I am using Swish V2 to make the swf files and I use Sonic Foundry to make the mp3 files.
I know it can be done, even with a 20 minute speach, so how do I do it?????