Dynamically loading and playing sound files

[moggy]

Hi folks, I'm trying to find a way to dynamically load and play .MP3's or .WAV's in the same way as, say, Winamp might do. So far I've discovered the technique of making a separate movie with ONLY the audio in it and using the "load movie" action, but isn't there a way of loading a sound file by just knowing it's file name and streaming it? It seems crazy that you should have to make each music file into a flash .swf movie and allocate frames the length of the sound file to be able play it! Anyone seen a way to do this?

Many thanks

Moggy

[jydnas]

By using Load Movie into location
and setting the audio to STREAMING
as soon as a few of the first frames are loaded the music will start to stream.

[jydnas]

I know you can load external .txt files
but i don't think you can load .mp3 files.

Just stick with the seperate .swf files.
It's just about the same thing
the seperate .swf files just contain
the mp3.