Re: FLASH: Can you Stream without Preloading Music Clips?

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

Jeff,


All you need to do is create a .swf for each music clip, with the sound 

sync type set to Stream. When a user selects a clip name in the base movie 

(level0), use LoadMovie to load the associated .swf into a higher level. If 

you always load into the same level (for example, level1), you can provide 

one set of control buttons (pause/play/replay, for example) that TellTarget 

that level (to stop, play, Go To 1 and Play, for example).


You don't need html frames for this, you can do it all via one base .swf.


Marc


At 06:31 AM 5/22/2000 , you wrote:


>I am doing a site for a record company and they want to put up clips of 

>music for people to listen to.

>

>On regular html, I've done this before, but I was wondering if there is a 

>way to have a list of songs/clips ready to play that would load and stream 

>them without creating the huge file that would occur if I had all music 

>clips load with the Flash.swf.

>

>Also, I was wondering if there would be a way to blend .swf's with 

>invisible frames:

>Here's my thought:

>The left side of the page would be a Site Movie, and the right frame would 

>be a list of clips that would perhaps load levels...

>

>OR

>

>The left side buttons would actually load .swfs into the right frame.

>

>If each music clip is 108 k after export in MP3, and I have 15 clips, I 

>want to avoid  a 2 meg download before clips are available..



Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media

Flash portfolio: http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/portfolio



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