Music Player

In this tutorial we will use some action scripts to play a song, stop, mute, and control the volume for streaming music.

You will need 2 pieces of royalty free music to use in this tutorial (wav or mp3).

Test it out on the right==>

Follow along with the music_player.fla as you go through the tutorial

Open a new movie set it to 550 x 400 pixels. Set your stage so you can see all of it.

Set the Background to White.

Click File / Import to Library / select your first song and import it.

click on the time line Layer 1 Frame 1, in your properties panel select your music from the sound pull down.

Set the Sync to Stream.

Now for the tough part the movie plays at 12 frames per second, you have to expand your movie so you can see all of the song in frames. (a 3min 45sec song will approx 2700 frames) so go as far as you can to the right in the time line sliding your timeline scroll bar all the way to the right and hit F5 do this until you no longer see the music in the time line frame. Remove any blank frames.

Save your movie as Song1.fla

File / Publish settings / click tab format and only have a check in Flash / click  Flash Tab /

there will be 2 set buttons, set them both to "MP3" / stereo to mono should be checked / "16kps" will give you a smaller sound file but quality will  suffer / Quality should be "Fast" / click "OK".

Put a check in override sound settings.

Click Publish.

Save and close this movie.

Open a new movie set it to 550 x 400 pixels. Set your stage so you can see all of it.

Set the Background to White.

Click File / Import to Library / select your second song and import it.

click on the time line Layer 1 Frame 1, in your properties panel select your music from the sound pull down.

Set the Sync to Stream.

Now for the tough part the movie plays at 12 frames per second, you have to expand your movie so you can see all of the song in frames. (a 3min 45sec song will approx 2700 frames) so go as far as you can to the right in the time line sliding your timeline scroll bar all the way to the right and hit F5 do this until you no longer see the music in the time line frame. Remove any blank frames.

Save your movie as Song2.fla

File / Publish settings / click tab format and only have a check in Flash / click  Flash Tab /

there will be 2 set buttons, set them both to "MP3" / stereo to mono should be checked / "16kps" will give you a smaller sound file but quality will  suffer / Quality should be "Fast" / click "OK".

Put a check in override sound settings.

Click Publish.

Save and close this movie.

Open a new movie set it to 300 x 75 pixels. Set your stage so you can see all of it.

Set the Background to White.

Draw a filled circle on the stage.

Click Insert  / Convert to Symbol / Call it Button 1 / Properties of a Button.

Drag a total of 6 Button 1 onto the stage.  Line them up and label them, Song 1 , Song 2 , Stop, Mute, Volume +, Volume -

open your Action Script panel set to Expert mode.

click on Layer 1 Frame 2 and hit F5.

Add Layer 2.

Click on Layer 2 Frame 1 / convert to key frame and  in the action panel type

var Vol = 50;

Click on layer 2 Frame 2 / covert to key frame  and in the action panel type

stop();

Click on the Song 1 Button and in the action panel type

on (press) { stopAllSounds(); Vol = 50; shhh = new Sound(); shhh.setVolume(Vol); loadMovieNum("song1.swf", 1); }

Click on the Song 2 Button and in the action panel type

on (press) { stopAllSounds(); Vol = 50; shhh = new Sound(); shhh.setVolume(Vol); loadMovieNum("song2.swf", 1); }

Click on the Stop Button and in the action panel type

on (press) { stopAllSounds(); }

Click on the Mute Button and in the action panel type

on (press) { shhh = new Sound(); shhh.setVolume(0); }

Click on the Volume +  Button and in the action panel type

on (press) { Vol = Vol + 10; shhh = new Sound(); shhh.setVolume(Vol); }

Click on the Volume - Button and in the action panel type

on (press) { if (Vol > 10) { Vol = Vol - 10; } else { Vol = 0; } shhh = new Sound(); shhh.setVolume(Vol); }

Save and Test your movie.

Prepared by Theodorb.