I'm trying to play a sound (notification sound) in my flash application and I need to play the sound until the user clicks on something else to stop it.
I can play the sound properly but the issue is that it will only play once but i need it to play constantly (a short delay between each play maybe?).
my current code is this:
var mySound:Sound = new Sound();
mySound.load(new URLRequest("iphonenoti_cRjTITC7.mp3"));
mySound.play();
so I thought I can use setInterval(mySound,5000); in my code but this doesn't work which means it doesn't play the sound on the loop!
could someone please advise on this?
Thanks in advance.
Well, reading the Documentation of setInterval it states that the first parameter should be a function. In your code, you are passing an Object of the type Sound.
So, there are a couple of options, I'll show you the quickest and dirtiest one.
Instead of setInterval(mySound,5000); you write setInterval(mySound.play,5000);
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with University done I've finally had time to go back to practicing my Flash work, and I need some help with getting sound to loop and change depending on what part of the animation is playing.
This is also partly a follow up question to an older one I asked, so look here to get more detail as to where I'm coming from if you don't understand! (I've solved that issue, the current one relates to following up on it!)
Flash AS3 | Finishing current animation set before code is executed
The situation is basic: I have two different scenes, one of a man walking and one of a man running. It loops seamlessly of the man walking until you hit a button, where it finishes the animation then starts looping the run animation. Likewise, hitting the button again, finishes the loop before going back to the looping walk animation. The code for the button is below.
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
Next2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, Change_2);
function Change_2(event: MouseEvent): void
{
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, enterFrame);
function enterFrame(e:Event):void {
if (currentFrame == 30) {
gotoAndPlay(31);
removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, enterFrame);
}
}
}
My issue is trying to get a footstep sound to match up with these animations. So while the man is walking, the 'walking footsteps' sound clip will play and loop alongside the animation, and when the button is pushed and the animation moves into the running animation, the 'running footsteps'' sound will play.
Any help on this would be much appreciated. I'm terrible when it comes to anything audio/code based.
Well u can check about soundChannel. soundChannel can stop() and play() ur audio.
So import ur external sound or use internal one. ur code probably seems like this.
var mySound:Sound = new Sound(new URLRequest("YourSoundPath"));
var sc:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();
//when u wanna play
sc = mySound.play();
//when u wanna stop
sc = mySound.stop();
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/media/SoundChannel.html
also look this link for more info
If you want to really MATCH the footsteps to the animation (for example, the step sound should play when the player have put his feet down) the only sure way to do that is to place the sound on a different layer where your animation is and set the sound to play as "stream" (if i remember correctly).
Otherwise the animation might be out of sync because of different computer capabilities, current computer or graphics card load etc.
When the sound is set to play as "stream" the flash player is orienting on the sound and drop frames if the graphics are slow to keep the sound and animation in sync
Okay, so I am making a game, and I can't figure out how to keep the sound track from overlapping. When the game comes to a lose or win screen, I will click "Play again" and the sound will overlap. I have the sound on it's own layer. Here's what I have so far.
var snd_SolidState = new SolidState();
snd_SolidState.play(0,1);
And on Layer 2 Frame 2 and 3, I have:
snd_SolidState.stop();
snd_SolidState = null;
It says "stop" is not a function. So how would I get the song to stop on the lose/win screens? SolidState is the song.
If the code is related to the click of the "Play again" Button, here is the code for those.
mc_again.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,upAgain);
function upAgain(e:MouseEvent){
gotoAndStop(1);
}
Can anyone help?
You need to use a SoundChannel to stop your music.
The variable snd_SolidState is a Sound object, Sound doesn't have a stop method implemented; The Sound.play() however, returns a SoundChannel object which does...
So you can store that (the SoundChannel object returned by snd_SolidState.play()), which you can later use to stop the song.
PS: I recommend you start typing your variables (ie: var snd_SolidState:Sound;), that way you force yourself to know which object type you're dealing with and can find reference for it; in this case Sound.play().
Alright I've managed to make an almost web page style thing in flash. I have all the coding to navigate the pages finished, but now I'm having the issue of when I change pages my main page music continues while the other pages music begins. I.,m unsure of how to code this. can anyone help? also I already have click sound effects going for my buttons and they seem to be working fine. Don't know if that helps at all. I'm also using flash cs6 and don't want to go to cc, because the removal of the bone tool.
To stop a sound, you will need to use a SoundChannel object when you tell the sound to play. Then, with the reference to the SoundChannel, you can stop the sound before you exit the section.
// save this reference for later so you can stop the sound when you want..
var mySoundChannel:SoundChannel = mySound.play(); // Get a sound channel.
// Call this later
mySoundChannel.stop();
Without a SoundChannel to control it, the sound object will do its default behavior, which is to play to completion.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/media/SoundChannel.html
I've created a few buttons in Flash. I'm trying to make it so that if you click one button, the audio starts playing for that button. If you click another button, the active audio stops and the new audio of the button you clicked last start playing.
Any help please?
What you're describing is actually quite easy to do.
First things first, I recommend importing the audio into your Flash project. Alternatively, there is a way to play it directly from an external file. This is beyond the scope of my answer, so if you need help on that, you should post a question specifically covering it.
Assuming you have imported the audio file into your Flash project's library, make an as3 instance of it. (Right click the file in the library, click Properties --> ActionScript [tab] --> [Check] Export for ActionScript & [Enter name in] Class)
Now, create a definition of the sound in your code. (Assuming your two sounds were named "mySound1" and "mySound2" in the Class field of the previous step.)
var mySound1:Sound = new mySound1();
var mySound2:Sound = new mySound2();
Now, define your sound channel.
var mySoundChannel:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();
There are two alternate ways of stopping one sound and playing another. The first is to create one function that does both every time. The second method is to create two formulas, one for "play" and one for "stop". You will need to decide which method works best for you. I'll use the two-function method below:
function stopSound():void
{
//This stops all sound in the sound channel.
//If there is nothing playing, nothing happens.
mySoundChannel.stop();
}
//In this function, we create an argument that allows us to tell the function
//what sound to we want it to play.
function playSound(soundname:String):void
{
mySoundChannel = this[soundname].play(0, 0);
}
[Note, you can tweak the play() properties to meet your needs, doing things like starting in the middle of the song, or looping it forever. 0,0 starts at the beginning, and doesn't loop. See the documentation for this.]
Now you hook up the event listeners for the buttons. (If you need help with event listeners, read the documentation.)
myButton1.addEventListener(Mouse.CLICK, btn1Click);
myButton2.addEventListener(Mouse.CLICK, btn2Click);
function btn1Click(evt:Event):void
{
stopSound();
playSound(mySound1);
}
function btn2Click(evt:Event):void
{
stopSound();
playSound(mySound2);
}
This should be enough information to get you started. In my game core, I actually have a custom class for dealing with sound playback that gives me the ability to repeat sounds, change volume, and keep sounds from conflicting with each other. I say that to emphasize that you can do quite a bit with the sound class. Do some digging in that documentation for ideas and help.
You may also consider putting a try-catch statement in the playSound function, since it will throw an reference error if you pass a name for a sound that doesn't exist.
Is it possible to get whole waveform of a mp3 sound in AS3 without the need to pass all the sound with the playhead and how?
Are there any functions that do this work.
I'm not sure if I completely understand your question, but you're probably looking for the SoundMixer class, which has a computeSpectrum() function that gives you a snapshot of the current sound wave: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/media/SoundMixer.html#computeSpectrum()