ActionScript 3.0 for Adobe Flash Professional CS5 Classroom in a Book

9. Controlling Sound with ActionScript

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you will learn to do the following:

• Create instances of the Sound, SoundChannel, and SoundTransform classes.

• Control the loading and playback of external MP3 files.

• Use the SoundTransform class to control the volume and panning of sounds.

• Use the Slider component to control the properties of the SoundTransform class.

• Use an array to store a playlist of MP3 files.

• Use methods of the TextField class to add characters to, and remove characters from, text strings.

• Use the ID3 tags of an MP3 file to access information about the file.

This lesson will take approximately 2.5 hours.

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