# Alternative to: onClipEvent (load)?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alternative-to-onclipevent-load/29078
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 21, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alternative-to-onclipevent-load/29078 "2003-08-21T21:57:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@artane](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/artane)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alternative-to-onclipevent-load/29078/1 "2003-08-21T21:57:19Z")
hey guys I’m stuck again,
I’ve got this on a movie clip instance and it works great:
onClipEvent (load) {
tellTarget (“music1”) {
gotoAndPlay(5);
}
}
What I want to do however, is have “music1” play earlier on in the movie. I have a specific frame that I want it to start playing on. I don’t want to wait until this clip loads.
I’ve tried just putting a keyframe on a frame within the main timeline and adding some script but, I can’t make it work. What would be the correct way to do this?
Thanks again,
artane 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alternative-to-onclipevent-load/29078/2 "2003-08-22T03:26:41Z")
Place this on the frame you want it to start playing:[AS]music1.gotoAndPlay(5);[/AS]
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alternative-to-onclipevent-load/29078/3 "2003-08-22T20:41:39Z")
thanks claudio, I got it working!
artane
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alternative-to-onclipevent-load/29078/4 "2003-08-23T03:06:26Z")
welcome 🙂