# SOUND problem: attached sounds won't play when MC is loaded into another MC

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sound-problem-attached-sounds-wont-play-when-mc-is-loaded-into-another-mc/149346
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [May 28, 2005, 1:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sound-problem-attached-sounds-wont-play-when-mc-is-loaded-into-another-mc/149346 "2005-05-28T01:59:35Z")
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### Author: ![nachwuchsguru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@nachwuchsguru](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nachwuchsguru)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2005, 1:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sound-problem-attached-sounds-wont-play-when-mc-is-loaded-into-another-mc/149346/1 "2005-05-28T01:59:35Z")

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Hi all,  
I’m really at loss here (6 hrs straight and liters of coffee and i cannot indetify the problem) and I would REALLY really appreciate your help-- A LOT _sigh_

**Here’s the scenario:**

I’m tying to build my new flash site as modular as possible (learning from past mistakes). Among others, I’m importing a MC containing all menu functions onto the main timeline via loadMovie().

This mcMenu.swf also contains the sound effects for the menu which are being attached via actionscript in the first frame:  
[font=Courier New]  
[color=SeaGreen][color=Blue]// attach sounds: soundID and linkageID are identical[/color]  
function sndAttach(id,vol) {  
this.createEmptyMovieClip(id+“Mc”,this.getNextHighestDepth());  
this[id] = new Sound(id+“Mc”);  
this[id].attachSound(id);  
this[id].setVolume(vol);  
}  
sndAttach(“sndOver”,70);  
sndAttach(“sndClick”,20);

[color=Blue]// button behaviors[/color]  
menu\_button.onRollOver = function() { sndOver.start() }  
menu\_button.onRelease = function() { sndClick.start() }[/color][/font]

[color=Black]When tested by itself, this .swf runs just fine-- all sounds are being played when the respective button handler is called (no linkage mistakes). So far so good.

NOW comes the problem: When I import this .swf into my main movie via [font=Courier New][color=SeaGreen]loadMovie(mcMenu.swf);[/color][/font] the menu works as it should [/color][color=Black]within the main movie [/color][color=Black]EXCEPT for the menu button sounds! But since the menu-movieclip is a closed module (with all sounds inside and working 100% when tested as standalone), WHY ON EARTH are the sounds gone when this module is imported into another movie?? So much for modules WITH sound?!

Anybody? My brain is fried. ☹

Thanks so much for any help!  
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