Want a challenge? Some meaty ActionScript

Question

Hi Everyone,
Spent all day, trying to get the attached script to work, no
joy and certainly, no LUCK.
Can someone see if they can see where I am going wrong here;
its a mp3 player that should use XML list and .as file, music
should fade in and out etc...
I will attach the code. GOOD LUCK! ;)
Kind Regards,
Boxing Boom

Answer 1

Sorry BB, I've been busy. Let me ask you, in addition to the
song playing when you press the 'play', do you think the sound
should actally 'stop' when you press the 'pause' button? because
the way we have it working now, it plays automatically, and when
paused it only turn the volume down but they continue to play
without volume, then when hitting play again it bring the volume
back up, and the songs continue to cycle through the list.
Secondly, I'm not sure how your change to cps=-1 would have
made a difference with the problem you were having where the song
wouldn't play on the second press of the button, that's not how
array indexs work, the only thing I can think of is that you may
only have one song in the list, or somethings not right with the
XML. If there was only one song, that would be it because it woudl
be the only thing in the array at index 0, and I see that I should
have used:
if(cps < sa.length-1) {
in the 'playSong' function's conditional statement, this
should solve the problem, but also change the cps defaults back to
zero.
to stop the song from playing until pressing 'play' remove
the 'playSong()' call fromt he end of the XML loading loop, then
you'll need a couple of other things depending on your answer to
the first questions here. because you'll need a method to start the
song playing, and if we just put the playSong() call in the play
button's code that would restart and advance the music each time
the button is pressed, so you'll need another function to handle
starting and stopping the songs.