Quick Soundbooth Q

Question

When you open up and make a soundbooth document, you can make little tags on the music document. Is it possible for Flash to read these? and if yes, how?!

Answer 1

Hi Shadow Fox,
There are a few methods to make those Markers (Flash refers to them as Cue Points) available to Flash. You can either embed them in an FLV video file, or save them as an XML file which can either be imported into Flash Video Encoder, or loaded via ActionScript within your Flash project.
If you have some markers on a file in Soundbooth, and save to WAV or AIF format, an additional file will be saved alongside your audio file. For example, if your audio file was named "myAudio.wav" the marker file would be called "myAudio_markers.xml"
Here's some sample ActionScript code to read this XML file and display the results:
Actionscript based Flash Cue Point Data Exchange Demonstration
Requires:
- FLVPlayback component on the Stage with an instance name of my_FLVPlybk
- Dynamic Text Field on the Stage with an instance name of currentCuePoint
- Cue Point XML file
var myCues:XML = new XML(); //Create XML Object
var curCueTime:Number = 0; //Set current cue point to 0
var curCueName:String = ""; //Set current cue point name to ""
myCues.ignoreWhite = true; //Ignore Whitespace in XML file
First, setup the onLoad routine to parse the cue file.
The file being loaded is a cue points XML file exported from Adobe Soundbooth.
The example assumes it's relative to the swf but could also be loaded using http:// or file:// */
myCues.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
convertCues(myCues); // Function located at end of script
myCues.load("Flash Cue Data.xml"); //Your XML file
my_FLVPlybk.contentPath = "embeddedcuetest.flv"; //A video file
var listenerObject:Object = new Object();
listenerObject.cuePoint = function(eventObject:Object):Void {
trace("Cue Point \"" + eventObject.info.name + "\" fired at: " + eventObject.info.time+ " (type: " + eventObject.info.type+")");
currentCuePoint.text = (eventObject.info.time + " seconds: Cue Point \"" + eventObject.info.name + "\" (type: " + eventObject.info.type+")");
my_FLVPlybk.addEventListener("cuePoint", listenerObject);
function convertCues(cueFile) {
for (i=0; i < cueFile.firstChild.childNodes.length; i++) {
curCueTime = (Number(cueFile.firstChild.childNodes[i].firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue)/1000);
curCueName = cueFile.firstChild.childNodes[i].firstChild.nextSibling.nextSibling.firstChild.nodeValue;
trace("Adding Cue " + i + " at time: " + curCueTime + " named: \"" + curCueName + "\""); my_FLVPlybk.addASCuePoint(curCueTime, curCueName);