FLASH: Sound sampler/organizer (help!)

[Joseph Balderson]

I am new to flash, but not to design, and so one of the first things I

did when I began learning about flash is making sure I have some decent

plug-ins and resources -- such as sound fx to put into my .fla's. Went

to a great site @ http://www.flashzone.com, and downloaded hundreds of

sounds to put into my files. Uh oh, I've really done it this time. I

have managed to port all couple hundred of sounds into a new library

available to my other movies, but how the heck do I know which is which,

with names like snd001?? At flashzone they had a cool button rollover

effect that would sample the respective sounds as your mouse went over

the button, which is how I chose hundreds of good sounds amongst those I

did not want so fast.


So now my problem is, how the heck do I choose the right sounds, with so

many in my library? I just cannot see myself pressing the pay button for

a few hundred sounds before I hit on the one I want -- that could take

hours! What would be great is if I could have something like at

flashzone, but a whole screen filled with small rollover buttons

corresponding to every sound in my folder/library, each with a tooltips

type popup text listing the name of the file for reference. My question

is,

1) Is there any second party software that will let me sample all those

sounds to find what I want fast in the manner described above, or close

to it?

2) Is there any way of auto-generating an .fla movie with rollover

buttons that will accomplish this?


I would really appreciate any assistance in this matter, it would really

save hours and hours of wasted time.


Joseph Balderson



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