Sound Object and Media Display

Question

I'm creating a music player that uses xml generated from a
database to load a song. One of the attributes of the xml is the
path to the mp3 file. The attribute is stored in a generic object
and is then passed as a function parameter. There's a lot of
information i'd like to use from the id3 tags but the only object
that supports them is the Sound object. I need the files to stream
so they aren't cached onto the local system and have a media
component to control playback.
If I create a sound object and use the file path parameter in
the loadSound method I can grab the id3 tags but the media
component doesn't have control of playback and the files are
cached.
mySound:Sound = new Sound();
mySound.loadSound(pathparam, true);
If I just load the file path into the media component it
starts playing right away and streams with the lovely built-in
progress bar but I can't seem to access the id3s.
mediaComponent.setMedia(pathparam, "MP3");
Is there a way to load an actual Sound object into the media
component so they will stream but also have access to the id3s?
Thanks in advance for any tips!

Answer 1

How can this NOT work????
//Create an instance of the Sound class
var soundClip:Sound = new Sound();
//Create a new SoundChannel Object
var sndChannel:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();
//Load sound using URLRequest
soundClip.load(new URLRequest("chimes.wav"));
//Create an event listener that wll update once sound has finished loading
soundClip.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete, false, 0, true);
function onComplete(evt:Event):void {
//Play loaded sound
sndChannel = soundClip.play();
Taken directly from:
http://flashspeaksactionscript.com/loading-external-sounds-using-as3/
I hear nothing.