Is it possible to have a sound clip (mp3) linked to a flash movie? What I mean is, can I have it load somehow without actually putting it in my swf to keep the file size of my movie down?
If so can anybody help me with the action scripting that would be needed? It’s just background music for my intro page that should start playing as soon as the intro starts.
Method; loads an MP3 file into an instance of the Sound object. You can use the isSteaming parameter to indicate whether the sound is an event or a streaming sound.
Event sounds are completely loaded before they play. They are managed by the ActionScript Sound object and respond to all methods and properties of this object.
Streaming sounds play while they are downloading. Playback begins when sufficient data has been received to start the decompressor. As with event sounds, streaming sounds exist only in virtual memory, they are not downloaded to the hard drive.
i found this tutorial on using sound with flash extremely useful, it tells you everything you need to know about it, including what you are looking for. Hope it helps.