ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

Sound.getBytesLoaded() Method

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// Repeatedly check for a valid duration

var intID = setInterval(pollForDuration, 100);

}

}

// Load the MP3 file

song.loadSound("track1.mp3", false);

Example

The following code attaches the exported sound “JingleBells” to a Sound object and then

checks the length of the sound:

music = new Sound();

music.attachSound("JingleBells");

trace(music.duration); // Displays length of JingleBells, in milliseconds

See Also

Sound.position

Sound.getBytesLoaded() Method

the number of downloaded bytes of an external sound file

Flash 6

soundObject.getBytesLoaded()

Returns

An integer representing the number of bytes that have finished downloading to the Player.

Divide by 1024 to convert bytes to kilobytes (KB).

Description

The getBytesLoaded() method tells us the number of bytes of an external sound file that

have downloaded into the Flash Player due to a loadSound() call. For a new Sound object,

getBytesLoaded() returns

undefined. Immediately after each call to loadSound(),

getBytesLoaded() also returns

undefined. As data arrives, getBytesLoaded() returns the

number of bytes transferred so far (from 0 to getBytesTotal()), until the entire sound has

loaded. From then on, it returns the total number of bytes last transferred, until the next

call to ...