# Background music

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/background-music/3188>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [February 8, 2001, 6:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/background-music/3188 "2001-02-08T06:12:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 6:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/background-music/3188/1 "2001-02-08T06:12:59Z")

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What i exactly want is to play a music in background of a flash 4 movie, now this music should slow down when the navigation buttons are shown and again start playing fast when user clicks on the required button. i saw this effect in [eye4u.com](http://eye4u.com)? Any help,please

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 11:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/background-music/3188/2 "2001-02-08T11:53:53Z")

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Hello,  
They simply used another sound loop that goes over the existing sound loop. As far as I can tell, there were no actionscript syntaxes that varied the speed of the sound clip.

I hope that helps. If you have any further questions or comments, please don’t hesitate to reply back.

Regards,  
Kirupa Chinnathambi  
[kirupa@kirupa.com](mailto:kirupa@kirupa.com)