Background music? event, stream, quality etc

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hi guys,

I’ve created a “music interface” that has three buttons on it that let the user pick which background music they want to hear. Everything works great but I’m worried that the size of the flash movie is going to be way to big.

I’ve seen these sorts of interface’s on alot of sites. How are they doing it?

Are the audio files set to “event” or “stream”? Are they in completely seperate flash movies that have to load on the page via “loadMovie” or are they part of the “background”?

The audio I’m hearing on other people’s websites sounds great but, I can’t understand how? Do they not have to compress it? I’ve got a 2 second wave that I’ve tried compressing and I can only get it down to 90kb! (It sounds like crap too!)

Any tips and tricks or a reference to a related tutorial would be greatly, greatly appreciated!!!

artane

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its because they dynamically load it. there is a tutorial for that somewhere.

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yeah my friend helped me with something simular to that…

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Sorry I cant be of more help.

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i am creating one for ya so u wont have to do anythin
it will have volume control skip tracks and stop and play buttons:geek:

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i know the buttons arnt much to look at but they work, if u have any questions about this please dont hesitate to ask…anyways heres the file…

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once u save it into a directory on the web where the mp3 files are u need to rename the file names in the first frame of the movie file of the action script…
[AS]_global.songs = new Array();
_global.playing = “no”;
_global.currentSong = 1;
_global.songs[1] = “song1.mp3”; //the mp3 file uploaded into the same directory in the ftp as the swf file
_global.songs[2] = “song2.mp3”;
_global.songs[3] = “song3.mp3”;[/AS]

where the “song1.mp3” is u should rename that to the mp3 name u want to use…
[AS]nClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_global.title = new Array();
_global.title[1] = “Song 1”; //the text which will display on the player when the song is played (this should be the name od the song used and the artist)
_global.title[2] = “Song 2”;
_global.title[3] = “Song 3”;



for this where "Song 1" is u should change that to the full name of what ever u renamed the globalsong[1]...
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WOW!

Thanks alot Dangeta! This is really helping me out.

So far, I’ve got it working great but, I can’t display the song title. You mentioned I should alter this script:

nClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_global.title = new Array();
_global.title[1] = “Song 1”;
_global.title[2] = “Song 2”;
_global.title[3] = “Song 3”;

The problem is, I don’t know where to find it. I’ve been looking through all the frames but I can’t locate it. Is this something I have to add myself somewhere?

Thanks again Dangeta! I really appreciate it!

artane :slight_smile:

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out side of the scene area in the gray bit theres a gray circle…select that and then go on actions and it has the code there…

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Yes, It works wonderfully!

Thank-You ever so much dangeta!

artane

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your welcome, do u have any instant messaging programs i could add u in, if u use msn messenger pm me ur email that u use or if u use aim pm me ur screen name and the same with yahoo messenger

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hi,

this solution is ok for mp3 that are purely sound (Or music) however i have been trying this with mp3s that have speech and the talking is speeded up.

Any clues??? Buttons work fine, moves between tracks but the guy sounds like donald duck…

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it works fine with me i tried some beavis and butthead sound waves and it worked it must be something up with ur audio file…

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thanks dangeta,

hmm, perhaps i’ll get some other files, the ones i tried were of the same vein. but i cannot understand it. i’ll check out your .fla again and see where it differs from mine. unfortunately it’s on a different machine.

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okay…its so borin, nuffin to do