Could somebody give a hand with this? Playing music all over flash website

[ivanmax]

Hi everybody!

First of all, many thanks for the other times you have helped me.

Would anybody be able to give a hand with this? I am creating a website in flash. I´ve a menu with "about us", "downloads", "photos", "facebook" and "contact". The think is that I want a song to play all over the flash movie, without mattering where the website user is. Can I do that somehow? I would like to have all the above mentioned pages in the same movie.

Please let me know if I am not explaining myself properly.

Regards and many thanks,

Iván

 

[Mug]

First off a lot of people don't like having music playing when you enter a site. I think the exception to the rule is when you visit a movie trailer type site where it is expected. I have multiple tabs open when I use the web so having music playing on one of them would drive me crazy. If you still want to include it then there are a number of ways to do it. It depends how your flash file has been set up but one way to do it would be:

have a frame for each section on your site (each section has it's own layer) then on the top most layer have a frame that spans the whole timeline (call it AS). Then on frame one put:

audioFile = new Sound (soundLoader);
audioFile.loadSound("yourmp3.mp3", true);

You should put some buttons on the page to stop the audio as well.

It has been a while since I did any AS so don't shoot me if this doesn't work.

 

[bcee]

If you are not loading new pages when the user navigates to another page you will be fine with the simple script as mentioned above.

Here is a simple one I had laying around from years ago:

var url:String = (_root._url.indexOf("http://") == -1) ? "sample.mp3" : _root.sound_url;
var snd:Sound = new Sound();
var snd_playing:Boolean = false;

function pauseSound():Void {
	if(!snd_playing) {
		playSound();
		return;
	}
	snd.stop();
	snd_playing = false;
	play_mc._visible = true;
	pause_mc._visible = false;
}

function playSound():Void {
	if(snd_playing) {
		pauseSound();
		return;
	}
	snd.loadSound(url);
	snd.onLoad = function(d) {
		this.start();
		snd_playing = true;
	}
	play_mc._visible = false;
	pause_mc._visible = true;
}

function init():Void {
	play_mc._visible = true;
	pause_mc._visible = false;
}

init();

play_mc.onRelease = pause_mc.onRelease = playSound;

 

[ivanmax]

Thanks!!

Many thanks! It is a site for a band, so I think music will be allright. Anyway I plan to put a "switch off music" button.

Again, lot´s of thanks to all of you.