Audio progress bar

1

(mx) I’m trying to make an audio progress bar. I’d like any help that can be given to help me accomplish this. I’m loading the songs externally when it is selected. I just need a bar to represent the song being loaded. I’m loading the songs from .mp3s

track1= new Sound
track1.loadSound(“morning.mp3”,false);

all= track1.getBytesTotal();

bytes_loaded = Math.round(track1.getBytesLoaded());

getPercent = bytes_loaded/all;

this.loadBar._width = getPercent100;
this.loadText = Math.round(getPercent100)+"%";
if(bytes_loaded/all >=.59){
gotoAndPlay(3);
}

the loadBar is the name of the progress bar_mc…this is the script I’m using, but I’d scrap it for a script that works…

2

um…

  1. Keep track, or better yet, find out how long each song is, preferably in milliseconds.

  2. start a timer as soon as the song starts

  3. divide (2)/(1) multiply it by 100, and you’ve got your progress percentage.

  4. apply this to an object using their _xscale/_yscale (optional) bar. set (3) equal to the objects scale and you’ve got your progress bar.

This works very much the same as preloaders, which seem to be such a problem for everybody…

3

thanks for the advice, but how would I make the timer…the beginning is no problem.

4

I’m loading the songs from mp3s

5

Flash 6 has the SoundObj.position and SoundObj.duration commands, so you could try those…

6

thanks pissant…I’ll check them out, I know you can divide them