Simple mp3 player

Question

Outside of the clunky media player component can someone give
me guidance on how to setup a custom player with these functions. A
counter/timer would be nice too but all I have is script for play
and stop which looks like this:
client_nc = new NetConnection();
client_nc.connect("rtmp://"+_level0.rtmpserver+"/fooserver/");
play_btn.onPress = function() {
in_ns.close();
in_ns = new NetStream(client_nc);
Replay_video.attachVideo(in_ns);
in_ns.setBufferTime(5);
in_ns.play("audio.mp3");
stop_btn.onPress = function() {
in_ns.close();
I'm basically just looking to add some script to this to add
a scrubber and a timer/clock if possible. Many thanks for any help
in advance!
Regards,
-Kjup

Answer 1

It looks like you are using code to play flash video (FLV),
and not an MP3. Make sure you are using the sound object to play
mp3s.
Here are a couple good tutorials:
http://kennybellew.cowfly.com/tutorial/
http://www.lynda.com/info/books/flash8btb/sample.aspx
First steps to play an mp3 using actionscript (see the tuts
for more details)
- Define an empty movie clip in actionscript
- Create the sound object variable
- Load the sound set it either to start streaming/playing
right away (true), or load completely without playing (false)
- Start the sound (using movieclips)
Play, pause/stop buttons
PLAY - use the start(); command. to start at beginning of mp3
you don't need to set any value.
PAUSE - capture the POSITION of the mp3 to a variable when
this button is pressed. In your start button, you add the variable
inside the brackets start(). position is captured in milliseconds
so you have to divide by 1000 to get seconds.
STOP - use stop('name of sound'); , or stop(); or
stopAllSounds();
Progress Bar:
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