Read ID3 of external MP3

Hi,
Currently I'm working on a MP3 Player. I start loading the
MP3 using the Sound.loadSound(URL, true) method.
In the Sound.onID3 event, I try to read the Tags using
Sound.id3.TALB.
Now I run a test with 2 files. The first one is on localhost,
the second one is on an external server.
Starting the player out of the flash development environment
(STRG+SHIFT+ENTER), I get the album ID3 for each file.
Running the player as an embedded SWF on a HTML site (running
on localhost), I get the album ID3 for the file saved on localhost
but not for the external one. I can play it and read it's duration
and total bytes, though.

search crossdomain.xml and add that file (edited to fit your
domains) to the domain where your MP3 file is.
Flash definitely cannot access data across domains under the
new security models so you require a crossdomain.xml which allows
your domain to pull data from that server. My guess is the sound
comes through because Flash is allowed to access a music stream
cross domain. Data definitely not. It's kind of confusing for sure
what the difference is, but data cannot be accessed for
sure.

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Trouble with loading external mp3 files

I apologize for the length of the post. I hope this is clear
of what I am trying to explain.
My problem deals with getting "undefined" when I press a
button to load an external mp3 files. The following is what my XML
childNode looks like:
<option phonetic="Soundless, or A" name="aleph"
cursive="alephCursive.swf" block="alephBlock.swf"
audio="char1.mp3"/>
Every attribute loads the way I've programmed them, except
for the last one "audio".
The following is what my actionscript looks like loading in
these attributes:
Everything is happening inside the onLoad event for my XML
file.
var xmlContent = this.firstChild.firstChild;
audioContent = new Array();
for (var i = 0;
i<this.firstChild.firstChild.childNodes.length; i++) {
nextEntry = xmlContent.childNodes
audioContent = [nextEntry.attributes.phonetic,
nextEntry.attributes.name, nextEntry.attributes.cursive,
extEntry.attributes.block, nextEntry.attributes.audio];
The code above simply adds each attribute to the audioContent
array. Each element traces out correctly.
The following code is how I am using these attributes:
for (var i = 0; i<audioLength; i++) {
audioContainer.attachMovie("container4", "audioItem"+i, i);
// Create a shortcut reference to the present movie clip
thisClip = audioContainer["audioItem"+i];
thisClip.myTxt1.htmlText = audioContent[0];
thisClip.myTxt2.htmlText = audioContent
[1];
thisClip.cursive_mc =
loadThis(assetPath+audioContent[2], thisClip.cursive_mc);
thisClip.block_mc = loadThis(assetPath+audioContent
[3], thisClip.block_mc);
thisClip.speaker_mc.attachMovie("speaker", "speaker_mc",
this.getNextHighestDepth());
thisClip.speaker_mc.speaker_mc.onRollOver = function() {
this.nextFrame();
thisClip.speaker_mc.speaker_mc.onRollOut = function() {
this.prevFrame();
thisClip.speaker_mc.speaker_mc.onRelease = function() {
mySnd.loadSound(audioPath+audioContent[4],true);
Loading the text works inside the htmlText. Using a function
loadThis to load external swf files works corerctly and even
attaching a linked movieclip from my library called "speaker" works
correctly.
The problem comes from pressing the speaker movieclip that
the output traces "undefined" instead of the external mp3 file.
I appreciate any help. Thanks.

As Ned said the problem might be with the file structure on the server. Other problems may be with spelling. You computer may not be case sensitive to the names of the .swf files that you are loading, but your server might. So, on your computer when you are testing, second.swf is the same as Second.swf, or even second.SWF. But, on the server each of these variations is seen as a different file. Another problem is that when you are loading files from the same computer in testing, those files are close and so they load very quickly from your computer. When the files have to travel from the server, there will likely be a measurable period of time before the file is ready to be shown. This is particularly problematic with video that is embedded into an .swf. The whole file will need to be downloaded and uncompressed before it is available to play. If you stream the video as an external file, you can shorten the wait considerably.

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I'm using the MediaPlayback component to play an external MP3
file, and it's working fine, EXCEPT that when it first loads it
plays the first part of the clip for a split second, then stops and
re-plays it -- regardless of the autoPlay settings that are used.
I have autoPlay set to false, both in the component
properties panel AND explicitly in the code before the setMedia
call. In the code below, the trace executes even though I've set
autoPlay to false.
I can stop the "blip" from happening if I inject a pause() or
stop() command after the setMedia() call -- HOWEVER, it happens
again when I call the play() method to play the file.
HELP!! Anyone else out there had this problem and solved
it??? I'm at my wit's end. See code snippet below.
soundFile = "arabian_dreams.mp3";
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Hello,
I have getting the following message when trying to play external mp3 files:
Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2032: Stream Error.
at playingExternalMp3_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2032: Stream Error.
at playingExternalMp3_fla::MainTimeline/buttonFunction()
at playingExternalMp3_fla::MainTimeline/load1()
These message appear in the output panel every time I slect the button for that sound file? Is there a linkage problem?
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Hi,
I have attached code straight out of the help file for using
External MP3 files. It works perfect when I use their HelpExample
sound MP3 file. However when I simply change the code to point to a
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> Hello,
>
> I use the following code to load and then play an
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> called "loop.mp3"
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> son.loadSound("loop.mp3",false);
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>
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by using CTRL+ENTER
> Key, the sound is playing properly but when launching
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> I entered a previous post and said that my External MP3
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> sound wave is playing back but at a high speed that is
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>
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Ok waterlovinguy,
I went back to my original code, and I got things to work... I think my whole issue was with the HTML CODE. So I decided to use the "SWFObject generator". I had never used it before, frankly I had never heard of it until I started my searches on "Flashvars".
Thank you very much for all your assistance, PEACE,
David
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                </object>
                <!<![endif]>
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