[AS 3] Actionscript 3.0 Load External .mp3 Audio

So, for a little game that I have been destructing I was in the need of loading some simple sound effects. I grabbed an audio file from Flashkit.com and created this extremely simple/basic package:

package {
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.media.Sound;
    import flash.net.URLRequest;
    import flash.media.SoundChannel;

    public class LoadAudio extends Sprite {
        private var snd:Sound = new Sound();
        private var channel:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();

        public function LoadAudio() {

            var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest("audio/PowerUp.mp3");
            snd.load(req);
            channel = snd.play();
        }
    }
}

I placed the above code in a file appropriately named: LoadAudio.as and set LoadAudio as the document class of my .fla file.

Posted in Actionscript 3.

4 comments

By admin – January 4, 2008

4 Responses

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james says

…and for looping audio (as an alternative to snd.play(0,xNumofTimes), add the following:
channel.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE,loopSound);

function loopSound(e:Event):void{
channel = snd.play();
}

February 24, 2009, 9:30 am
fred says

if I put a web url it says Error opening URL ‘http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/download/245921′
Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2032: Stream Error.
at LoadAudio()

it is a download url however

July 2, 2009, 4:00 pm
Daniel says

I get this same error if I use it in flash. Any Ideas as to what is wrong?

August 4, 2009, 4:19 am
admin says

Daniel & Fred,

This may be because of a the Flash Security Settings – try and use a relative path to the audio file rather than an absolute one.

-M

August 4, 2009, 4:22 am