Sound class - Flash CS3 audio player

[Flep]

I'd like to use an unconventional term to describe the new Sound class of Actionscript 3.0: it rocks!
Substantially it stayed the same, but with the support of the Socket class you can really exploit it.
For example you can create proper sound mixers and using graphics alongside them, you can get exceptional results ( it's not my case as my graphics are awful ).
With this example I want to focus especially on the SoundMixer and its computeSpectrum class, attaching to it the new ByteArray to manage binary data blocks.
Here is the result:

The classes I've written and used for my audio player are 4:

FlepPlayer.as

Grafico.as

ControlloVolume.as

Balance.as

Source files:

[gwulfwud]

hey flep, i looked into the source files..got a few questions though..

im a noob in as 3.0 so bear with me..

i noticed you have the following functions inside your constructor...does it really help to just declare the functions you want inside the constructor? and those functions will run depending on who you declared first right?

        public function FlepPlayer()
        {
            initMe();
            initButtonsEvents();
            initSound();
            initTimer();
            initGrafico();
            initControlloVolume();
            initControlloBalance();
        }

[Flep]

Hi

That way is the best practice.
The constructor calls the methods to inizialize the application

[gwulfwud]

well said.

Thanks man!

[gwulfwud]

another question again flep.
how come my buttons won't act like buttons? i mean it won't do the rollover and stuff..well, im kinda trying to imitate your codes like starting it from scratch so as to help me understand the process..i was able to load the sound but i can't have the buttons behave as buttons...

please help..

thanks!

[gwulfwud]

never mind, i got my answer!
although i got another question with that...coz i noticed you have to instantiate the MOUSE_OVER event before you can pause the song...now why do you have the event:Event thing inside the brackets of the function?

        public function colorPlayOut(event:Event):void
        {
            player_mc.play_mc.out_mc.visible=true;
            player_mc.play_mc.over_mc.visible=false;
        }

with that said, i was able to pause my music but i can't restart it event though i have the play function for the play movieclip button. btw when i was building the code i started from scratch and copied your codes one by one starting from loading the sound to making the buttons work so the functions are most of the time very incomplete...i guess my main question is do i really have to put the _channel thing on the play function?

        public function onPlay(event:MouseEvent):void
        {
            player_mc.pause_mc.isPressed=false;
            player_mc.pause_mc.out_mc.visible=true;
            player_mc.pause_mc.over_mc.visible=false;
            _channel.stop();
            _channel=_sound.play(_position);
            _playing=true;
        }

sorry i just had to ask as i can't find the answer on livedocs




=D

thanks again

[gwulfwud]

EDIT:
I apologize, i really have to another one =D

My buttons are all messed up, when I pause the song it pauses and i press it again it plays, but something went wrong when i pressed either the play or pause (not really sure) another song was loaded and played..now there are two songs playing almost at the same time, you'll know coz when you press pause again the echo like sound of the song will stop but press it again and it starts all over again..

[Flep]

Hi,
are you using it as a multiplayer ?

[gwulfwud]

well im planning to use it as a multiplayer...but for now, i want to really understand the concept behind loading a single music file..

[Flep]

Can you paste here the code that you get problems with