add sound

[Alan5E07]

Hi Guys

 I managed to get all my buttons work correctly. now i need some help with sound/music. I need the title music to play at the start of my project frames 1-28 where my first bit of frame by frame animation runs with it. But when I test project the animation runs ok but no music. But when i press button to go to another part of the project and return to home page the animation plays ok again and the music to but only for the duration of the short  animation. I need the music the keep playing in that area 1/28 until the user press a button and move on.

Help! AlanY

[kglad · Accepted solution]

put a stop() in your first frame and an intro message along with a button/movieclip to click to trigger your timeline to play().

(user's have to interact with browser files to permit sound to play.)

[Alan5E07]

Hi Not exactly what I am looking for. My project starts automatically with the frame by frame animation and the cursor start frame one and stops at frame 28. I would like for the music to play at the same time but to be kept between frames 1-28 and to continue to play untill the user clicks a button that will take them out of the area. The music is quite lengthy but I need it to only play in that area 1-28 frames

[kglad]

you can't (thank goodness) play sound in a browser without user interaction. think about it.

[Alan5E07]

Ok understand just new to this. quick question my music is 165 frames long can I compress it all into 1-28 frame and play only in that space?

[kglad]

yes. use event for its sync property and, if started at frame 1, it will play in its entirety even if you stop at frame 1 ( or 28).

[Alan5E07 · Accepted solution]

Hi I got the start button working ok.plays the animation to frame 28 and stop thats what I want. But I would like to have the musicto play at the same time and keep it confined inbetween frames 1 and 28 if that is possible!

[kglad · Accepted solution]

it would be easier for you to add your start button to frame 1 and then put your sound on frame 2.

but you can start your sound with code on frame 1, if that's what you want to do.

[Alan5E07]

Hi I got the start button work and the music playing with the animation and stops at frame 28 all good so far thanks for the info. next hurdle how can I keep the music playing only between 1-28. at the moment it plays outside these frames

[kglad]

have you assigned your sound's sync property to stream?  is so, put an empty keyframe on frame 29 of the sound's layer.

[Alan5E07 · Accepted solution]

That works to keep the sound in 1-28 but the sound now stops playing at 28. Would like the music to keep playing the hole music at 28 until the user clicks another button to take them out of that area.

[kglad]

you should probably use code to start and stop your sound to gain that much control.

[Alan5E07]

can you give me an example of how to do that!

[kglad]

assign your sound a linkage id (in your animate library).

// then create your sound instance
var sound1 = createjs.Sound.createInstance("soundId");  // eg, if linkage id = soundId

to start your sound call play_soundF()

to stop your sound call stop_soundF()

function play_soundF(){
sound1.play();

}

function stop_soundF(){

createjs.Sound.stop();

}

[Alan5E07]

sorry dont understand all that stuff.. Can you make it simpler for me?

[kglad]

copy and paste:

//////////////////////////////////////////////// start code ///////////////////////////////////////

var sound1 = createjs.Sound.createInstance("soundId");  // eg, if linkage id = soundId

function play_soundF(){
sound1.play();

}

function stop_soundF(){

createjs.Sound.stop();

}

//////////////////////////////////////////// end code ///////////////////////////////////////////////////

then call the play and stop functions when needed.

[Alan5E07]

sorry still not geting this copy and paste I understand but dont know were to paste it into!

[kglad]

paste it into frame one of your main timeline.

[Alan5E07]

tried that when I move out of the 1-28 area it still keeps playing

[kglad]

did you call start_soundF to start your sound?

did you call stop_soundF when you "move out of the 1-28 area"?

[Alan5E07]

Dont know how to start soundF or how to stop soundF moving out of the area.

[kglad]

use:

start_soundF();  // to start your sound

stop_soundF();  // to stop your sound

[Alan5E07]

still keeps cutting of sound at frame 28

[kglad]

did you remove sound from your timeline?

[Alan5E07]

no