Random XML MP3 Player

[grebs]

I have an MP3 player that is using an external XML file. I want this MP3 player to load a random song each time on runtime. I have this code -

var my_songs:XMLList;
var my_total:Number;
var my_sound:Sound;
var my_channel:SoundChannel;
var current_song:Number = 0;
var song_position:Number;
var song_paused:Boolean;

var myXMLLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
myXMLLoader.load(new URLRequest("playlist.xml"));
myXMLLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, processXML);
 
 function processXML(evt:Event):void
 {
	var myXML:XML = new XML(evt.target.data);
	my_songs = myXML.SONG;
	my_total = my_songs.length();
	   
        for(var i=0;i<my_songs.length;i++) {
            var randomSong = Math.floor(Math.random()*my_songs.length);
            var t = my_songs[i];
            my_songs[i] = my_songs[randomSong];
            my_songs[randomSong] = t;
    }
	playSong(i);
}
 
function playSong(mySong:Number):void
{
	var myTitle = my_songs[mySong].@TITLE;
	var myArtist = my_songs[mySong].@ARTIST;
	var myURL = my_songs[mySong].@URL;
	title_txt.text = myTitle;
	artist_txt.text = myArtist;
	
	if(my_channel)
	{
		my_channel.stop();
	}
	my_sound = new Sound();
	my_sound.load(new URLRequest(myURL));
	my_channel = my_sound.play();
	my_channel.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, nextSong); 
}

next_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, nextSong);
function nextSong(evt:Event):void
{
	current_song++;
	if(current_song >= my_total)
	{
		current_song = 0;
	}
	playSong(current_song);
}

prev_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, prevSong);
function prevSong(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
	current_song--;
	if(current_song <= my_total)
	{
		current_song = 2;
	}
	playSong(current_song);
}

pause_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, pauseSong);
function pauseSong(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
	song_position = my_channel.position;
	my_channel.stop();
	song_paused=true;
}

play_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, play_Song);
function play_Song(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
	if (song_paused)
	{
		my_channel = my_sound.play(song_position);
		song_paused = false;
	}
	else if (!my_channel)
	{
		playSong(current_song);
	}
}

Its not producing an error, but the first song from the XML file plays each time. Can anyone help?

[cancerinform]

try this:


var randomSong = Math.floor(Math.random()*my_songs.length);

playSong(randomSong);

[grebs]

that produces this error -

Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2032: Stream Error.
at flashPlayer_fla::MainTimeline/playSong()
at flashPlayer_fla::MainTimeline/processXML()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunctio n()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at flash.net::URLLoader/flash.net:URLLoader:nComplete()

[grebs]

i managed to fix it, it was really simple in the end. I'd missed out some parentheses here for(var i=0;i<my_songs.length;i++) { so it should have been for(var i=0;i<my_songs.length();i++) {