You wrote back on June 9, 2007, and I’m sorry to say I missed your reply until today! At that time, you asked this:

Is there a way to play two sounds, one after the other, and embed the sounds in the swf instead of stream?

The answer is yes on both counts, and the answers I gave GeePee and Kibo (the most recent to this reply to you) show you how it’s done. In those cases, I suggested the use of an array, but for two files you could just as easily do it like this. Assuming your linkage identifiers are “songA” and “songB”:

var audio:Sound = new Sound();
audio.attachSound("songA");
audio.start();

audio.onSoundComplete = function():Void {
  this.attachSound("songB");
  this.start();
  delete this.onSoundComplete;
};

The onSoundComplete handler is key: when the first song ends, the next one is associated with the same Sound instance by way of the attachSound() method and is instructed to start playing — and the event handler is deleted so that, at the end of the second song, Flash doesn’t do anything else.

Fortunately, there’s not much to change. First, your array of sound files will be now be the Linkage identifiers of files in your Library, rather than external file names. To add a Linkage identifier, right-click/Command-click your Library asset and choose Linkage. Give the identifier field a unique name for each sound asset. Then your array might look something like this:

var listOfFiles:Array = new Array("frog", "loon", "horse");

— or whatever Linkage IDs you provided.

Then, wherever the original code says this:

audio.loadSound(listOfFiles[currentFile], true);

… you put this:

audio.attachSound(listOfFiles[currentFile]);
audio.start();

Check out my reply to GeePee (just before yours) to see a more detailed example of a similar situation.

thanx
Kibo

I’m not sure what’s going on in your onSoundComplete handler. The Sound.duration property indicates how long an audio file is, which is determined by the composition of that file itself (you can’t set duration, but only retrieve it — which isn’t what you want to do here anyway).

Here’s my take on a solution. This is a custom function, playSequence(), that receives an array parameter, spelling out the word “dog” as “d”, “o”, “g”. It assumes those letters are the Linkage identifiers of three audio clips in the Library:

function playSequence(sounds:Array):Void {
  var s:Sound = new Sound();
  if (sounds.length > 0) {
    var currentSound:Number = 0;
    s.attachSound(sounds[currentSound]);
    s.start();
    s.onSoundComplete = function():Void {
      if (currentSound < sounds.length - 1) {
        currentSound++;
        s.attachSound(sounds[currentSound]);
        s.start();
      }
    }
  }
}

playSequence(["d", "o", "g"]);

In this way, it doesn’t matter how many letters you pass in. An arbitrarily named variable, currentSound keeps track of which sound is currently playing (this is a numbered index of the array, sounds). As each comes to an end, the same onSoundComplete handler executes — notice, there’s only one Sound instance, and only one event handler — until the array is run through completely.

I think you are the best person which can solve my problem with this flash sound file.
I am having a text box and from that text box I want to hear sounds corresponding to the letters typed in the box. I dont know I had done perfect on this, but my code still working when I click to play it, but the problem is that it plays the whole sound files at the same time, but I want to play them one after another…. Please have a look at my code and correct it for me

Here is my code:

on (release) {
  var i, t, q;
  t=String(txt.text);
  for (i=0; i <150; i++)   {
    q= mbsubstring(t,i,1);
      if (q == "S")      {
        song1 = new Sound();
        song1.attachSound("S1");
        song1.onSoundComplete = function() { song1.duration(1000000) };
        song1.start();
      }
      else if (q == "R")   {
        song2 = new Sound();
        song2.attachSound("R2");
        song2.onSoundComplete = function() { song2.duration(1000000) };
        song2.start();
      }
      else if (q == "G")   {
        song3 = new Sound();
        song3.attachSound("G3");
        song3.onSoundComplete = function() { song3.duration(1000000) };
        song3.start();
      }
      else if (q == "M")   {
        song4 = new Sound();
        song4.attachSound("M4");
        song4.onSoundComplete = function() { song4.duration(1) };
        song4.start();
      }
      else if (q == " ")   {
      gotoAndStop(1);
    }
  }
}

Have fun with it! Flash is wired for multimedia, which is one of the main reasons I love it.

looking forward to playing around with that….the notion of experimenting with artwork manipulated by sound loading and streaming also intrigues me and it feels as though this is a good place to start.

Graeme

It’s definitely possible to populate text fields with Sound info. If you check out the TextField class in the ActionScript 2.0 (or 3.0) Language Reference, you’ll find all kinds of information about text fields, of course. One of the most basic features is the the text property, which allows you to get or set the displayed text of any dynamic or input text field. Properties are characteristics an object has, and most classes define public properties you can access. Some are read-only, some not.

Here, you’ll want to check out the Sound class to see what properties it features (hint: you’ll find both duration and position, which should give you a good start).

Think of your goal as hooking together a home theater system. You’ve got a DVD player (a ridiculous metaphor for the Sound class) and a TV (an equally preposterous metaphor for the TextField class). Your text field’s reference will be its instance name, as assigned via the Property inspector (this can also be done via ActionScript), and your sound’s reference will be the variable that holds your Sound instance.

myTextField.text = mySound.position + "/" + mySound.duration;, etc.

thanks
Graeme

Sounds like the ActionScript is doing what it should, but not in the way you expected. Now that some time has passed, I can see why. I should have notice this before. The onSoundComplete event handler is triggered at the end of each song, which means the first song’s name won’t show.

In the lines that load the first song, add one additional bit of ActionScript to set the text field’s text property. In fact, it’s the same line used inside the event handler (the new line is added at the end):

var currentFile:Number = 0;

var audio:Sound = new Sound();
audio.loadSound(listOfFiles[currentFile].file, true);
someTextField.text = listOfFiles[currentFile].name;