# Buffering external MP3 Sound before playback

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buffering-external-mp3-sound-before-playback/216548>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 17, 2007, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buffering-external-mp3-sound-before-playback/216548 "2007-02-17T22:12:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![fuekewl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/85e7bf/32.png) [@fuekewl](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fuekewl)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buffering-external-mp3-sound-before-playback/216548/1 "2007-02-17T22:12:10Z")

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Does anyone know of a way to buffer a fixed amount of seconds to an external MP3, before playback?

My MP3 is background music.😉

I know that with the Sound Class you are limited to Event and Stream types. Loading in n MP3 through **Sound.loadSound** method you can set the “ **isStreaming** ” parameter.

Set to true, the stream comes in at anypoint and stutters throughout the songs download. Which is plain awful. :td:

Is there a way to buffer an MP3 like you would for an FLV. Say create a \*\*NetConnection \*\*and stream through that way, using the buffering capabilities of **NetStream**.

My Question then is how does someone convert an MP3 to a non-video-like FLV?

Is this at all possible? Anybody done this before? 😃