First of all, let me say that I'm relatively new to the FlashKit boards, so, if I'm posting this in the wrong place, please be gentle, and tell where I should be posting.

I just finished reading cre8ive's great posting explaining about streaming audio in general and how to do it in Flash. I have read a lot about Flash and done lots of "lessons" and "tutorials" but now it's time to do something for real. My need is to be able to incorporate audio into some corporate training pieces.

Am I understanding correctly that the only way to have Flash truly stream an external audio file is to have it encoded as an SWF file? If I try to load an external MP3 file that is not saved as SWF, will I be forced to wait until the whole file downloads before it plays?

Thanks.