RE: FLASH: Looping audio stream problem

[Dan Sobczak]

Marc,


Thanks!  That makes perfect sense.  I changed my loop to "start" and just

defined how many times it'll loop.  I think I can get it to loop

indefinately like I originally wanted with some extra scripting, but at

least now the music loop is seamless.


Thanks again!

-Dan


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Subject: Re: FLASH: Looping audio stream problem



Hi Dan,


Flash is not designed to synchronize music in the way you're trying to do.

You can't time the music to take exactly "x" number of frames, go back to

frame one, and expect it to loop smoothly. That's the bad news. The good

news is you can set the sound to loop and the sync type to event or start

and it will NOT add to byte size. That's the beauty of looping a music

symbol.


Setting to "stream" is rarely necessary except when you want to force the

animation to sync to the audio. That is, Flash will drop graphic frames if

necessary to keep up with audio.


Hope this helps.


At 10:51 PM 1/10/00 , you wrote:


>I have a simple Flash movie of 2 scenes. Both scenes have a .wav (4

measures

>of music - both are in "stream" sync format) file. Scene 1 plays its .wav

>once, then the movie moves on to Scene 2.

>

>Scene 2 is supposed to play its .wav, and if the yellow button in the

>lower-right is NOT clicked, then the movie is sent back to Scene 2-Frame 1,

>thus looping the .wav file until the yellow button is pressed.  Once the

>button is pressed, that's the end of the movie.

>

>However, the problem is -- when Scene 2 loops back to its Frame 1 (thus

>looping the music clip), there is a brief audio pause as soon as the movie

>hits Scene 2-Frame 1 again, and the music seems to not pick up again until

>frame 2 or 3, effectively chopping off the very beginning of my music loop.

>

>My music clip in Scene 2 begins in Frame 1, which is the very same frame

>that the text "Scene 2-Frame 1!" appears. And my action at the end of the

>music clip (which is in the same frame as the very last frame of the music

>clip) says, basically, "if button is not pressed, goto and Play Frame 1".

>

>An example of this is here:

>

>http://www.phoenix360.com/test/neo/dsobczak.html

>

>My goal is to make the 4 measures of music in Scene 2 loop repeatedly (and

>seemlessly!) until the user clicks the yellow button.  I don't wanna have

to

>set the sound properties of my Scene 2 .wav file to loop "X-number" of

>times, 'cuz it'll just add precious bytes to my .swf file, thus killing my

>final download time when the project is completed. Plus, the final movie

>will need to loop indefinately until that button is clicked by the user.


Marc Hoffman


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