Acrobat Pro: Making timecode visible in embedded sound files?

Hello.  I teach music history courses.  For copyright purposes (i.e., to prevent music theft), I am embedding sound files in PDFs for student use.  Some of my commentaries have timing cues (e.g., Horns enter at 3'38"), but I've not found a way to make the timecode visible to the students.
Time codes are, of course, a standard feature on most music players (iTunes, Quicktime, WMP, etc.), as well as on many Flash players.  It seems reasonable that the media player in Acrobat should have a similar feature, even if disabled by default.  But if it does, I have been unable to locate or enable it.  Does such a feature exist on Acrobat?
If not, does anyone have a recommendation for a possible alternative?  Thanks.

You do know that as of Acrobat 9.0 you are able to include Flash Movies in PDFs. Now as to how that works I couldn't tell you as I haven't used Flash much even though I have it as part of Studio 8.

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