Need help connecting two sound events

[RyanP]

I have two sound files that are meant to be played together. The end of the first sound file leads into the beginning of the second sound file. What I would like to do is loop the first sound file 4 times and then when it is done, have it send a message to the second sound file to start playing. Is this possible?

Thanks,
Ryan

[jydnas]

the audio file has no way of sending a message to the other.
Now movie clips as well as the main time line can communicate with each other.

It's easy to play a sound file 1 time and then have it play the next audio file
but when you start looping it get's more complicated.


1 thing you could do is
put the first song in a movie clip
and set it to Stream
and loop it 4 times then add a key frame at the end and add in the next song so that it chains them together.


You will have to experiment with it till you get the timing right.

[RyanP]

thanks, i sure wish there was an easier way to do this, i'll try it out and let you know how it goes, another thing that i would like to do is to go back to the first audio file after X loops, not sure if this is possible with the above mentioned method

i have been reading the archives here and many people have talked about how insufficient the sound features are in Flash and i couldn't agree more, hopefully macromedia is beefing up the audio portion of the next release of Flash

[This message has been edited by RyanP (edited 29 May 2000).]

[jydnas]

if you had a animation that was 400 frames
in order to get a perfect fit the music would have to be 400 frames long.

if your frame rate was set to 24 frames a second

that would =16.6 seconds of animaton (400)frames
so the song would have to be 16.6 seconds long

now what allmost everyone is doing is using
1-5 second music loops.

say you had a music loop that was 3.7 seconds long
and your animation was 400 frames long

you could loop the song 4 times which would
only equal = 14.8
which is not enough 14.8-16.6=1.8
so you would end up with a 1.8 second gap.

if you loop it 5 time you get 18.5
which is 1.9 over.