How Does this audio load so fast?

[JennySpade]

The audio track on this site loads very quickly. It must be a large mp3: www.lillipiovesan.com.br/teste

How can I embed an audio track like this (a complete 3 minute song) and have it load in justa few moments?

cheers!
jen

[pastthepresent]

It appears that they are streaming it. Streaming allows for a small portion to load before playing. The rest of the file loads as the song plays.

Also, the quality of the song is low, allowing for quicker downloads.

[JennySpade]

Wouldn't they require the Flash 7 plugin though to stream?

[NTD]

Hi,

Technically, streaming(progressive file download) has been available since at least Flash 5. Maybe before but I didn't start with Flash until version 5. Before there was a sound object, the method involved outputting a .swf file with a mp3 embedded and loading that .swf into another movie. The loadMovie method is a progressive download and works like streaming for a sound object. With FlashMX or higher, the sound object is available to handle streaming .mp3 files directly into the flash player........

mySound=new Sound();
mySound.loadSound("someFile.mp3",true)

The second parameter of the loadSound method determines whether the sound is streamed(true) or loaded entirely before playing as an event sound(false).

[JennySpade]

great, you made my day!