sound name from soundChannel

[roi8877]

Hi,
I wondered if there is a way to find out from the soundChannel the url of the sound it is currently playing.

Once I found out its url, i can than use its name to call something else.

Or anyway to find out the sound that is playing on a soundChannel.

I will know which channel to look into, but different sound will be loaded into this soundChannel....

If this is not possible, i thinking along the line of overloading SoundChannel play method so that is fires an event when the sondchannel plays and also find out the name of the sound file it is currently playing...

thanks!

[neznein9]

The soundChannel is seperated from the Sound object that creates it so you'd need to manage the connection yourself. Personally, I'd set it up as a Dictionary lookup:

var s:Sound = new Sound( new URLRequest('a.mp3') );
var t:Sound = new Sound( new URLRequest('b.mp3') );
var SOUND_BY_CHANNEL:Dictionary = new Dictionary();

//  ...

var chan:SoundChannel = s.play();
SOUND_BY_CHANNEL[chan] = s;

//  ...

trace( SOUND_BY_CHANNEL[chan] );  //  s 

[roi8877]

Thanks neznein9.

I see where you getting at. However it seems the same effort to your method equals the current solution I have.

What is happening in my case is that I've been passed an .fla file that has many audios that plays via one sound channel. I'm supposed to close caption these audios. I load the captions from an xml file externally and things work just great. I had to go in and identify where a the audio (loaded externally) is about to play and I paste the code to start a piece of caption. (I wrote a function that will listen to the channel for the channels position not equal zero, than fires a sequence of events that fires the close captions. Works beautifully.) But I'm trying to save me going all over the place looking for where the sound starts to then paste a call to my function. All sounds are already loaded in the first frame and they all have their own variables. They then get loaded one by one when needed into the soundChannel. So what I'm attempting to do is to just listen to this particular sound channel (if I can), and detect which sound it is about to play, or is loading...then I can fire off its appropriate caption.

I'm not certain if a dictionary would work like neznein9 has pointed out.

Any other thoughts or suggestions?

Thanks!