# Audio progress bar
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/audio-progress-bar/26012
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [July 18, 2003, 3:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/audio-progress-bar/26012 "2003-07-18T15:11:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@faceoff305](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/faceoff305)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2003, 3:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/audio-progress-bar/26012/1 "2003-07-18T15:11:40Z")
(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 = getPercent_100;
this.loadText = Math.round(getPercent_100)+"%";
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…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/audio-progress-bar/26012/2 "2003-07-18T16:18:27Z")
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…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/audio-progress-bar/26012/3 "2003-07-18T16:51:04Z")
thanks for the advice, but how would I make the timer…the beginning is no problem.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/audio-progress-bar/26012/4 "2003-07-18T17:03:05Z")
I’m loading the songs from mp3s
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2003, 5:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/audio-progress-bar/26012/5 "2003-07-18T17:25:13Z")
Flash 6 has the _SoundObj_.position and _SoundObj_.duration commands, so you could try those…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/audio-progress-bar/26012/6 "2003-07-18T17:32:04Z")
thanks pissant…I’ll check them out, I know you can divide them