# Playing sound in external swiff w/actionscript

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-sound-in-external-swiff-w-actionscript/135076
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**Created:** [January 24, 2005, 4:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-sound-in-external-swiff-w-actionscript/135076 "2005-01-24T16:05:17Z")
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### Author: ![SlowRoasted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@SlowRoasted](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SlowRoasted)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2005, 4:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-sound-in-external-swiff-w-actionscript/135076/1 "2005-01-24T16:05:17Z")

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Ok im doing this tutorial, [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/sound.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/sound.htm)

It works find in my main movie but i cant get it to work in my external loaded swfs. Do i need to add parent or this somewhere? Can someone plz help me out here :ne:

```php

buttonSound = new Sound(this);
buttonSound.attachSound("3");
buttonSound.start();

```