[font=Tahoma]I wanted to create a simple audio player for my new site (no volume, no rewind/fast forward and no pause). The idea was to have a tiny turntable that grows when you mouse over it, allowing you to swap out the records.[/font]
[font=Tahoma]However, I’m afraid that I have structured the entire thing wrong from the ground up and need outside intervention before I go any further down this rabbit hole.[/font]
[font=Tahoma]Currently there is a parent “turntable” movie which ends up being loaded within the site (that part works fine). This movie controls the on (rollover) sizing up and down of the turntable itself. A child “records” movie plays the songs, swings the arm in and out and swaps out the records as you click on them.[/font]
[font=Tahoma]Quite naturally, one of this players issues is that every keyframe in the parent “turntable” movie, recalls the “records” movie, causing the songs to start over as the user rolls in and out of the player. It seems like I could avoid this by taking the load song action off of the frame, putting it on the on (release) of the appropriate record and loading it within the parent (recommended action script for this would be greatly appreciated). However, that still wouldn’t solve my starts over when you mouse in or out issue. You see, I want the little turntable (moused out) to be playing a record if the music is playing and empty if the music is stopped which you’ll notice isn’t currently working. In theory, I could do a whole if playing on mouseover go to frame where record is spinning and if stopped go to recordless frame but this gets pretty complicated fast and I’m no actionscript expert. My question is, am I on the right path? What is the best way for me to do this? Do I need to restructure my movie layout completely? Would anyone PLEASE be willing to help me with specific actionscript direction; I have an entire site to finish and this is really holding up my progress.[/font]
