Loading a movie on a given frame?

Hi, I'm new to Action script and all this stuff so help would
be most appreciated,
I made a website in flash that starts off with a little bit
of sound and eventually when that sound ends there is no sound so I
created a little mp3 player and I want to put this mp3 Player onto
a particular frame in the movie. I tried importing the player on
the frame but it was functionless. I then tried to use the
following action script but the movie just played normally without
any player:

You don't need your path to target the C:\\ level and then
all those folders - where is your parent
FLA? just place ther parent FLA in the same folder as your
player.swf and then you don't have to
have such a long path.
As to why it is not functioning when loaded - probably
because by itself the AS targets _root - once
loaded _root refers to the parent movie.
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Eyphoon wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to Action script and all this stuff so help
would be most
> appreciated,
> I made a website in flash that starts off with a little
bit of sound and
> eventually when that sound ends there is no sound so I
created a little mp3
> player and I want to put this mp3 Player onto a
particular frame in the movie.
> I tried importing the player on the frame but it was
functionless. I then tried
> to use the following action script but the movie just
played normally without
> any player:
>
>
>
> loadMovie("C:\\Documents and
Settings\\Owner\\Desktop\\Drama Group\\Flash
> Sites\\Phantom\\Music Player\\Player.swf", "0");
>

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Thanks Hiroto
both your script work perfectly, I want to explain what we are trying to achieve.
We are using FilemakerPro database as a pre-editing tool for a film we shoot
Too complex here to explain the serious reasons for this choice
The scripts in reply to the first question allows us to create a frame field in FMP to then choose various different starting points in our film-files.
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// ISSUE 1 //
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