Sound won't play unless I start it from the beginning

[Dragon_Leader]

I've added sound onto my file (mp3) but I'm not able to loop the animation along with the sound or even watch the animation with the sound unless I start it from the beginning.

I watched a video and the lady says that first you've got to click Sync and turn the sound from 'event' to 'stream' so that when you loop the animation it loops the sound as well but I can't add any effects or change it from event to anything else and i don't know why. I've tried uploading the sound as other formats Animate supports (Wave, AIFF, etc) but nothing works.

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I created the sound on Adobe Audition? I don't know (I barely know anything about Audition yet, I got it this morning), but please help.

[Colin Holgate · Accepted solution]

If you're making an animation that will be exported to video, make sure you're using an ActionScript 3.0 FLA. I'm guessing you're using an HTML5 Canvas FLA, and those don't have the Stream sync option.

If you are able to use an AS3 FLA, then you're better off using a WAV file instead of MP3, that will make scrubbing the timeline work a lot better.

In either case, make sure the sound format from Audition is 44.1 KHz, 16 bit, mono or stereo. Using 24 or 32 bit audio is likely to stop the sound from working, and using 48 or 96 KHz audio may affect the sound sync.

If you're making an animation that has to play back as HTML5, you could still work on the file as AS3, and when you're happy with the animation you can use File/Convert To, to save out an HTML5 Canvas version. At that time you would then lose the Stream sync option, but hopefully the timing would remain ok.

[Dragon_Leader]

Thank you! I did what you said (remade it as an AS3 FLA) and it worked!

For some reason the sound wouldnt convert to a WAV file so its still an MP3, but it still works, but thank you!