Best way to have Music

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Hey what would you guys say is the best way to have music in a flash site?!

Have it in it’s own swf and load it in with a preloader?

Have it on the main movie but just keep it small and preload it?

I just want to keep the file size for downloading the site very very low and wanna make it as quick as possible for people to view the site! Any ideas?! :pa:

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The best way is to have it externally loaded as you are doing it.
that way the site opens and the music loads while the viewers are cheking your site.

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Yeah that’s what I wanna do…I don’t have it like that yet.

Do I make everything in an swf? :-\

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Just place a song file in a swf of its own and set it to start so when you load it in, it will play on it’s own.

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Hey EG could you help me with my prob :puzzle: :puzzle:
is in the flash mx forum "endless menu problem"
thanks. ( i posted here because i noticed that you just answerd this question)

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But would it be best to have the “Music player” in it’s own swf then preload the songs on their own swfs into the “Music Player.swf”?? :pa:

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That’s up to you, I would have the player be part of the main.swf.

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But then how do I get the preloader to work?

It won’t work right if I have the preloader on the timeline…:q:

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You can place the preloader on the main movie or you can place it into the external swf with the song file.

It depends on how your setup is.

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But what I am asking is how do I do it? I don’t know where to start… I want to have one like urs with the Audio Loader and the stop and play buttons and all that. And I want to be able to have multiple tracks I can load…

Can someone just explain how I do this. I have no idea and just someone to walk me through it… :thumb: Thanks.

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Anyone?! Come on someone has to know…:-\

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Hey BS

I have a music player that loads mp3’s externally. I stream them due to copyright. I have reduced the files to 40kbs mono files.
www.richardclapton.net
go to mp3
If that will help you out let me know