Playing Sound (MP3) in Web/Plexus Pub

Tarantoga · **Posted:** March 11th, 2010, 10:41 am

mackavi wrote:

Plexus won't find the SYSTEM_PUBLICATION_DIR.

But if your sound is fixed, the easiest method is to add it to the additional resources and call the alias in the script.

Mack

Is this also possible with a Flex-publication? It seems that the mentioned tab is not available in Flex-publication. At least I cannot find it.
Which way is the best for using MP3-files in a Flex publication?

Thanks in advance for your help

bwpatric · **Joined:** November 3rd, 2004, 2:11 pm **Posts:** 323

You can use ActionScript to play external .MP3s in a Flex publication.

Just do a search on the web to see how you can play, pause, stop, etc. MP3s. It's pretty easy if you include in as a script action and I tested it and it worked fine for me.

Tarantoga · **Posted:** March 24th, 2010, 6:06 pm

bwpatric wrote:

You can use ActionScript to play external .MP3s in a Flex publication.

Just do a search on the web to see how you can play, pause, stop, etc. MP3s. It's pretty easy if you include in as a script action and I tested it and it worked fine for me.

... do you mean this way:

soundObj = new Sound();
soundObj.attachSound("mysound.mp3");
soundObj.start();

I think I make a mistake because this does not work in my Flex-Publication. All the sounds that are directly attached to a button etc. as an action work fine.

Unfortunately I don't get the external mp3-files playing.

A little hint would be great.

T.

Lar_123 · **Posted:** March 25th, 2010, 7:24 am

Hey, I was looking around for something else (OOPs...), and found this.

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/h ... ng_09.html Embedded asset classes

Apparently, if you are not going to include certain Flex libraries you can use the ActionScript metadata tag, [Embed], for such things. ??

(it may be AS 3.0 only??)

Ken Hubble · **Posted:** March 25th, 2010, 11:21 am

It will need to be AS 2.0.
Good AS 2.0 resource http://flash-reference.icod.de/
Copy and paste from the examples to save yourself some time.
I've not tried the "pass thru" feature as yet so can't advise any further.

Good Luck
Ken

bwpatric · **Joined:** November 3rd, 2004, 2:11 pm **Posts:** 323

This is what I tried:

Code:

coolTune = new Sound (soundLoader);
coolTune.loadSound("musound.mp3", true);

It works. The true on the last line sets the file to stream, so it will start playing once it has enough to play.

Not sure what else you can do in terms of controlling it, but at least you're playing an external mp3.

Digital Workshop

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