# Delayed Sound

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delayed-sound/147344>\
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**Created:** [May 9, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delayed-sound/147344 "2005-05-09T20:48:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![sixfortyfive](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/sixfortyfive/32/671_2.png) [@sixfortyfive](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sixfortyfive)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delayed-sound/147344/1 "2005-05-09T20:48:21Z")

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I’m having a problem where sound effects are delayed. All my sounds are in a separate SWF, I’m using “Linkage” to make them availible to actionscript. Then in my main movie I am doing something like this to play most of the sounds:

```auto

_root.sounds.loadMovie("sounds.swf");

belltower_btn.onRelease = function() {
	sounds.belltowerfx.start();
};

```

You can see the effect yourself: **[[Development Site Link]](http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/projects/olympiad/index.shtml)**

Try clicking the robot’s anntenna, then immediately click on the clock tower.

Before I had every sound in it’s own movieclip inside the main movie, and at that time they all worked. But now, I want to be able to load the sounds as an external SWF.

Any ideas why these are not syncing?