Comments on: Making an MP3 player in AS3

By: rubin

rubin — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:16:26 +0000

i tried it not really working my guess is that its not reading the mp3main.as file

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:21:11 +0000

Hmmm… I was just testing it on my computer and it was working fine. Try it online and see if it works in a webpage. If it doesn’t then we’ve got some more issues going on, but I’m not sure what they are yet.

By: Rubin

Rubin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:21:23 +0000

hey sorry i’ve been busy
first of all id like to thank you for your help above. I finally got it to work. Now i just have one more question; why cant i play the swf file on its own,for some reason it does not recognize the song list. in order to play the songs i have to open the fla file and hit control+enter. if i were to put the swf file in a dreamweaver file would it work? thanks a lot i appreciate your effort.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:01:35 +0000

Rubin,
First of all, try and avoid spaces in your file names. Secondably, that file path is all messed up.
switch the backslashes (\) with forslashes (/),
get rid of any spaces… and rename the file to something a little simpler, like “song001_Lets_Get_It_On.mp3″ (that’s not required, but it will be nicer).
Also, avoid apostrophes in file names.

If you are testing this on your computer (or online) you only need the relative path to the file. So, if the song and the player are in the same folder, you just need id=”/filename.mp3″

Hope that helps.

By: Rubin

Rubin — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:33:30 +0000

hey everyone
i am facing a bit of a problem with the xml part. Am i supposed to put the songs in from the web or from my computer. when i try to play it, for some reason it just wont play. help me please
example of xml format that i am using
———————–
song id=”K:\MP3 Player Source Code\songs001 - Marvin Gaye - Let’s Get It On .www.lokotorrents.com.mp3″ disp=”Let’s ge it on - Marvin Gaye”/>
—————–
everything else is in the same format
when i try to play it i get this

false eventPhase=2 text=”Error #2032: Stream Error.

thanks a lot

By: Johannes

Johannes — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:16:00 +0000

I´m ashamed, but can´t get it done…:( This is what it looks like now:
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/*The constructor mainly sets up the event listeners, but it also
starts loading the XML playlist file.*/
public function Mp3Main() {
position = 0;
sndTrans = new SoundTransform(1);
url = new URLRequest(”music.xml”);
xmlLoad = new URLLoader(url);
xmlLoad.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, xmlComplete);

var myFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
myFormat.font = “Georgia”;
myFormat.color = 0×00FF00;

var b:List = new List();
b.dataProvider = [{label:"Hello World"}];
b.setStyle(”textFormat”, myFormat);
addChild(b);

playList.addEventListener(ListEvent.ITEM_CLICK, SnglClick, false, 0, true);
/*vol_mc.addEventListener(”volume_change”, updateVolume, false, 0, true);*/
seek_mc.addEventListener(”seek_change”, changeSeekBar, false, 0, true);
———————————————–
I copied the middle part from earlier posts here, and I still don´t see the new list on the scene. But actually I don´t want to create a new List but rather just change the text format on the existing one. How do I apply the format to the play list?

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:00:24 +0000

/*The constructor mainly sets up the event listeners, but it also
starts loading the XML playlist file.*/
public function Mp3Main() {
	index = 0;
	position = 0;
	sndTrans = new SoundTransform(vol_mc.percent);
...
}

The class’ name and constructor function are both Mp3Main. The constructor is called automatically on creation of a new Mp3Main instance (and since this is our doc class, that’s when the flash movie is loaded).

By: Johannes

Johannes — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:35:27 +0000

That´s exactly what I was looking for!

Regarding your previous answer: “I would probably put the code right in the constructor (the function with the same name as the class)”.
Are we talking about Mp3Main.as and could you please explain what you mean by “in the constructor (the function with the same name as the class)”?

Sorry ´bout all the questions…

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:13:39 +0000

Johannes,
Do you want it transparent like this?:
http://www.clickpopmedia.com/projects/paul/ListExample.html

To do that I also set the List_Skin’s fill to transparent. It’s white by default.

By: Johannes

Johannes — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:26:48 +0000

Stupid, or..?

Finally I found the place to change the color for the play list: (Scene->Instance of List->Instance of CellRenderer). However, even though I pick “no color” as fill color the play list wont be transparent. Why?