As for loading audio

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I used the tut. to make a volume control slider. The .mp3 file is externally loaded, because it’s huge.

Two questions.

  1. How do I easily and very quickly compress an .mp3?

  2. How do I change the AS to play the song once it’s 25% loaded, instead of fully (total) loaded?
    Here is the AS I have:

onClipEvent (load) {
mySound = new Sound();
mySound.loadSound(“five.mp3”, false);
mySound.onLoad = mySound.start;
//set the initial volume
_root.volume=15;
//put the “dragger” movie clip in right position according to the volume
dragger._x = line._width*_root.volume/100;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
downloaded = mySound.getBytesLoaded();
total = mySound.getBytesTotal();
if (downloaded != 25/100) {
_root.dl = “downloading song…”;
} else {
complete = 1;
_root.dl = “”;
}
mySound.setVolume(_root.volume);
}

thanks in advance!
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