[AS3] fix for SoundComplete?

anyone know of a fix for the dreaded Event.SOUND_COMPLETE in AS3?

looping a sound seamlessly will not work with this event.

the only other way I could see is using a timer or enterFrame, and figuring out the change in position over the sounds duration, and using that to play the sound again, something like:

var magicNumber = ?

var seamlessEnd = sound.duration - magicNumber;

timer.delay = seamlessEnd;

If you are just looping the one loop then why not use the yourMusicTrack.play(0,999, null) to play it 999 times.

SOUND_COMPLETE sucks

yeah, guess thats the only thing to do.

I have used it for years without problems. Of course I always pick music that has pause in the end.

this has always made me sad, being both a coder and a composer of loop based music, I have always dreamed of creating aiMuse style interactive score kind of thingy for flash, allowing parts to come in and out as actions change on screen...but alas with out a seamless onComplete it's impossible.

Chris Error

Although I've not pushed this into AS3 yet, in earlier versions I actually did my own checks on how far thru the sound clip I was. By doing this I was able to dynamically load the next part seamlessly, or replay the current clip.
Can't imagine I'll go back to using the sound complete check now.

Sounds like you are just looking for a way to loop one file. Why would you need on sound complete anyway?

Or maybe I'm off?

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var magicNumber = ?

var seamlessEnd = sound.duration - magicNumber;

timer.delay = seamlessEnd;

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I tried something like this - using the setTimeout function, and finding the 'magic nunmber' by trial and error. I couldn't just loop it as some are suggesting here, as I was trying to join two separate tracks together. It worked, although I wasn't confident that the magic number on my PC would be exactly the same for everyone. Never really found out before I gave up and used a different method altogether.

Would be very useful to know of a solution to this though.

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Originally Posted by MikeMD

Sounds like you are just looking for a way to loop one file. Why would you need on sound complete anyway?

Or maybe I'm off?

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yeah, Flashkit was right, using the loop parameter works. I had forgot all about it.

It still is a problem though for multiple tracks/sounds as chris pointed out.