# Question regarding misbehaving looping sound **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [July 14, 2002, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-regarding-misbehaving-looping-sound/340 "2002-07-14T15:41:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Insung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Insung](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Insung)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-regarding-misbehaving-looping-sound/340/1 "2002-07-14T15:41:14Z")
Hello all, I am new to flash so I am not sure where I have made the mistake. I made a simple movie clip with a looping sound. When this movie is played over the flash player timing is flawless however when it is played over the web there is gap between the loop (2 to 1 sec). As the movie loop, the gap between loop gets shoter and shoter - eventually no gaps between the loop. Also while the movie is in play if a new nav. window oftens (or a program), the gaps between the loop continue to exist if not making the gap longer. see it [here](http://www.public.coe.edu/~ihwang) In general I am having trouble with working with looping sound. When I import sound file, the file only fits into a blank frame instead of using frame as much as time of music takes. I can extend that single frame to however long the file goes to (the wave on frame) but this doesnot look like exact time that sound last. Is there a easy way to know how many frames will the sound file take? I know how long the sound is in sec but the sound files are rarely exact sec (more of 2.3, 2.7 sect and so on). I have read tutorial from flashkit about finding bpm etc but it is not helping me at all. And how do I use a 3 sec loop over a moive that is longer than 3 sec? Any help will be appreciated. btw, I really enjoy your tutorials alot easier than some of flashkit’s. Including .fla with tutorial is great. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2002, 5:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-regarding-misbehaving-looping-sound/340/2 "2002-07-15T05:26:17Z")
I am not exactly sure about this but, i think it might be the streaming of the file over the net. Is the loop fine when it is looping in flash? With my site i have just put the loop on the first frame and put in the maximum loop in the sound properties box. It loops fine as long as u dont start the movie over again otherwise it will echo the loop. With the problem with knowing how long the sound goes for, you say u know how long the loop is in seconds so press ctrl+m for your movie properties and change your fps(frames per second) i usually set mine to 24, that way u can work out how many frames the loop takes up. also once u have done that u can goto the sound properties box i mentioned before and change the the way it plays to ‘stream’ instead of ‘event’ or ‘start’ i find this easier to sinc my movies to as when u move your timeline bar over the frames the sound plays, hope this has help you dude. If not u can email me if u want. [digitalwomb@hotmail.com](mailto:digitalwomb@hotmail.com) ---
**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:** [July 17, 2002, 3:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-regarding-misbehaving-looping-sound/340/3 "2002-07-17T03:15:33Z")
ghoteki Thanks for the info. I really appreciate your help.