Music Playing...

[inbornaj]

Hi there,
OK I am pretty new at this flash stuff, in fact I have only done about 3 sites with flash, and of course I am self taught. Now I made a flash section of a site I am doing, and added a "play button" to play an mp3 on the site. But it takes SOOO long to load. Is there a way to get this thing to load faster? The mp3 is about 3.3 mb.
and it is Imported into the flash.

[Xurion_Flash_Man]

Either downgrade the quality of the mp3 before you import or use a smaller mp3...

XFM

[oldnewbie]

Well you could re-compress it to get the size down, or you could dynamically load it from outside your Flash movie itself and make it a streaming soundObject...

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[Xurion_Flash_Man]

Dynamically loading in the mp3 would ultimatly take even longer, as flash compresses sound when imported, so instead of taking whatever amount of time to load aprox 500k (imported) you would be waiting even longer for the dynamic 3.3mb one.

XFM

[oldnewbie]

If an event soundObject yes that's true, but if you load a streaming soundObject, it usually starts playing within 5 seconds (on it's own) on a fast connection, and continues to download while playing.
Though on a 56k modem, you would have to extend the preloading up to 80%, for it to play without breaks.

[Xurion_Flash_Man]

Prehaps two different options for the user to choose from would be better, like for fast and slow connection users?

XFM

[oldnewbie]

Your choice!

[inbornaj]

Thanks a lot guys. I appreciate your time and help. I will test my different options.

--~AJ~--

[Xurion_Flash_Man]

No probs.

XFM