LoadSound not working in IE but works in Firefox??! Help!

Question

Greetings all,
I've posted this in the general forum with no luck, so I
thought I'd try here.
Situation:
A simple flash movie, using a loadSound method, works
correctly in FireFox/Safari in our production environment, but IE
will NOT play any sound.
All browsers work just fine in our staging environment,
suggesting a difference between these two systems.
When loading the movie in IE, the progress bar jumps from 0%
to 100%, which suggests it's found the file, but will never play
it. In FF/Safari, the progress bar fills up gradually, as expected.
I've tried adding the mp3 mime type to our Apache
configuration (AddType audio/mpeg .mp3), which didn't seem to have
an effect. Linking to the mp3 file in different ways--literal vs.
relative--doesn't seem to have an effect.
This bug is holding back a pretty major new site component,
if anyone has ANY ideas, please let me know!!
Matthew

Answer 1

"OctavianMH" <[email protected]> wrote in
message news:e1oprn$2cr$[email protected]..
> Sorry, perhaps i was unclear. The servlet is outputting
an XML feed, that
> contains the PATH to the mp3 file.
>
>
http://www.carnegiehall.org/AudioInfoServlet?event_id=3328
>
> The flash music player uses XMLConnector and DataSet
components to grab the
> XML from the servlet feed, and then populates the
loadSound() call from that
> data. Not that it matters, if this:
>
>
http://www.carnegiehall.org/flash/sound_module_empty.swf
>
> won't work under IE, which doesn't have any of the
component/xml complexity,
> and simply tries to load the sound, then the read sound
module certainly won't
> work.
>
> The key is getting sound_module_empty.swf to work, if I
can get it to work in
> IE, I imagine the real thing will work too.
>
> Oi vey.
>
> The actual mp3 file is at
http://www.carnegiehall.org/media/2006S0108M.mp3
OK, yeah, I remember now. I looked at that before.
I put your files on my server in the same folder arrangement
that you have for a test..
I only changed the code for the sound_module_empty.swf to
point to my server like this:
stop();
s = new Sound();
s.loadSound("
http://www.kompanionkare.net/media/2006S0108M.mp3",
true);
It loads up and works fine from my server so it must be a
server problem.
http://www.kompanionkare.net/flash/sound_module_empty.html
(I will delete the Files soon, just leaving up long enough
for you to test)
tralfaz