Stop and Resume

[R30buff]

How would you go about playing a song, and when the person clicks for it to stop, have it pick up in the same place it stopped?

[suprabeener]

make it a streaming sound, make the movie containing it long enough to play the whole song. now wherever you play in that movie is where the song will play.

[R30buff]

Ok say I have a movie. In this movie it does several things and all, but I have a stop button that's on every frame. Now if this button where hit, the movie would stop exactly where it's at. And then it changes to a play button, and when clicked, resumes where it left off. How would I go about making this? ;-)

[suprabeener]

alright, check out www.parloursteps.com, (http://www.parloursteps.com,) go to the album page and click on one of the songs.

this is (part of) what i did:

the songs are loaded into their own level (_level30) on demand with a loadMovie() command. they're a swf that has nothing except the song and enough frames to fit the whole length.

in the player you have a movie containing two frames, each with a button. frame 1 is a stop button which has:


on(release){
_level30.stop(); // stop the music
gotoAndStop(2); // go to the play button
}

frame 2 has a play button with suitable actions.

enough to get you going?

[R30buff]

Welp....That's exactly wut im talking about. But then again, no it's not enough to get me going. Im an ameature ;-) Do you have AIM or something? Where I can actually sit down and discuss this with you? instead of via a message board?

[suprabeener]

sorry, no aim or the like.

i've emailed you the player portion of the above example. all you really need to look at is the stop/play button.

it's all contained in the "meter" movie, you could cut and paste that movie into another fla and it would work just fine ... provided you load your song fla's into level30.

if you want to discuss any of it, repost. i'd be happy to help.

cheers.

[R30buff]

Alrighty ill check it out

I noticed that tha load time for those songs on tha site were small...wut formatt where they in? How'd u compress'em? Did u even make'em?

lol im jus so full of questions :-)

[suprabeener]

they're mp3's imported into flash and then published at 32kbps high quality stereo, some were published at 48kbps. the largest is about 2 mb and the smallest is 750kb.

since they're set to stream, they start playing right away too!

i made the original mp3's with cdex (http://www.cdex.n3.net/), a great free wav 2 mp3 convertor.