Comments on: Flash: Create a Full Streaming Flash MP3 player using XML! (pt. 1)

By: Kaylin

Kaylin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:20:34 +0000

I’m going to sound like a dunce, but on step 3. Am I doing this in flash or my textedit? Sorry for my novice-ness.

By: Grasshopper

Grasshopper — Mon, 31 May 2010 15:09:57 +0000

I made a basic player based on your tutorial, which is very good. The only problem I have is that the playlist keeps repeating once it’s over. Is there a way to stop the player when the playlist is completed????

By: S A M O R

S A M O R — Tue, 11 May 2010 01:09:26 +0000

Hello Tiago

Thanks for the tutorial, the player works like a charm

But I have a question: how I can do to play the songs on loop?

thanks one more time!

By: LostMind

LostMind — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:00:23 +0000

Thank for this simple but awesome tutorial!

By: Flv Player

Flv Player — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:31:58 +0000

Thank you for the quick tutorial.Excellent & helpful post

By: Marius

Marius — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:43:24 +0000

Heya people,

Those who are still struggling with the error about undefined URL.
In the XML example Tiago made a type error, namely

Good luck!

By: Tiago

Tiago — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:13:24 +0000

Dave,

One of my clients: http://toscanorecords.com/ also requested that, but since we are “downloading” the mp3 it doesn’t make much sense to scrub the playhead (in case someone has a really bad connection). Anyway the client still wanted it and I made the playbar clickable, which is kind of easy:

You just need to create a click function on the progressbar get the mouseX position and calculate the tracks position accordingly, something like, ( songLength / progressBar.width ) * mouseX
That gives you the seconds that you need to seek to

By: Dave House

Dave House — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:43:27 +0000

Hey Tiago,

Nice one, glad I got it right! I must have kept missing the solution when I went through the comments before. Ah well!

I don’t suppose you ever got anywhere with making it so the playhead can be scrubbed through the song did you? That would pretty much make it my perfect player!

Cheers again, keep up the good work!

By: Tiago

Tiago — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:49:30 +0000

Hi Dave,

I’ve already wrote the solution multiple times throughout all 3 pages, but it kind of sucks to scroll through all comments
But back to question, yes that is the line that you need to comment out and nope there are no side effects.
Happy you like the player.

By: Dave House

Dave House — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:49:02 +0000

Hey,

Amazing player, thanks so much for this. It’s the second time I’ve implemented it on a website and both times it’s really done the trick.

I struggled to turn off the auto play feature – there’s a lot of people asking how and there seems to be no clear answer. The way I did it was by removing the following line of code (line 24):

_root.sound_mc.songStarter(songfile[song_nr]);

Seems to have worked, no side effects yet! I’m using the code from Part 3 of the tutorial, incidentally.

Thanks again

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:47:16 +0000

I tried the basic tutorial and it worked perfectly. but when i placed the .swf, xml and .mp3 files on my local server; it really didnot worked.. the flash file seems to be functional but it doesnot plays the music. there is no path issue as i placed all the files in same folder..

please help me how it will work in local server..

quick reply will be highly appreciated..

By: Saad

Saad — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:37:13 +0000

How to make this player play a song which is already online and i should give its URL in embeded code…