Flash Site Design - Handling the LoadSound delay for Streaming MP3

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Handling the LoadSound delay for Streaming MP3

somatique

2004-04-21, 3:16 pm

Hey :)

I have a music picker on a site i'm working on -
http://somersethouseinn.com/2004

You'll see [1] [2] [3] under the heading "tunes". I'm streaming 3 different
mp3s off the server. Problem is that they take a few to start playing, and i'm
concerned users will just keep clicking on the button, causing the stream to
start over and over again. I'd like to have some sort of loading animation that
temporarily disables the button so they can't keep clicking on it until the
stream starts to play. Here's the script that is controling the button right
now.

on (release) {
stopAllSounds();
mySound = new Sound();
mySound.loadSound( "http://www.somersethouseinn.com/mp3/1.mp3", true);
mySound.play();
}

adireddy

2004-04-22, 4:30 am

You can also disable the play button once it is clicked....

playbuttoninstance.enabled = false;

and you can enable it again when the song gets loaded or at the end of the
song.

mySound.onLoad = function(success){
playbuttoninstance.enabled = true;
}

or

mySound.onSoundComplete = function(success){
playbuttoninstance.enabled = true;
}

somatique

2004-04-22, 5:33 pm

awesome! Thank yo so much!!!

kinglai

2004-04-24, 5:30 pm

I have tried to use the samescript for flash5, but fail...
is it because flash5 didn't have "loadsound" function?
thank you very much