# Accessing sound information on the timeline

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-sound-information-on-the-timeline/318223>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 13, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-sound-information-on-the-timeline/318223 "2011-01-13T18:15:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Simmoniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Simmoniz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Simmoniz)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-sound-information-on-the-timeline/318223/1 "2011-01-13T18:15:54Z")

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Hi everyone,

I need to access information of a sound placed on the timeline of my swf. I can’t use as3 to trigger them because it must be synchronized with visual stuff on the timeline. Other reason is that I’d like to diplay a caption text of the sound (stored in some xml files). For this to be possible I need the name and length of the sound on the timeline to show the caption text properly, at the rigth time / duration. I googled if there is a way to access a sound on a timeline and it seems impossible.

Does some one knows how? or has an alternative idea to resolve this kind of problem…?

Thanks in advance

Simon