# Sound problem--- what the heck?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sound-problem-what-the-heck/110860>\
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**Created:** [May 20, 2004, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sound-problem-what-the-heck/110860 "2004-05-20T15:08:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![natronp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/87869e/32.png) [@natronp](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/natronp)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sound-problem-what-the-heck/110860/1 "2004-05-20T15:08:22Z")

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okay i’ve got my main timeline which has a sound object created in first frame and called to start playing on a later frame:

```auto
_root.background1.start(0,999); 
_root.background1.setVolume(20);

```

i’ve got external .swf’s loaded into my main timeline and the sounds in those .swfs are playing super quiet or not at all. (they test fine until I test my main .swf that loads them)

I’m not a sound object pro yet, but is my sound object affecting the sounds in my loaded .swfs?

anyone encountered this type of problem before?

thanks for any help