Looping Sound, loops over original loop? 1

[danielh68]

Hi,

I'm sure this question has been asked countless times and I even performed a search on "looping sounds" at this forum. Unfortunately, I didn't find anything that answered my question. Anyhow, I will get to the point: I have a music file playing in my movie, but when it loops, it doesn't discard the original track. It just rides on top of it. It sounds really garbled. What accounts for this and how can I fix it?

Thanks in advance,
DanH

 

[billwatson]

Do you have more than 1 music file?
If so then stop the first before starting the second.

 

[danielh68]

No, I only have one sound. This is what I have done at the moment: I have made a movie clip that holds my sound file, the last frame ends on frame 85. On this frame I created an action that goes to the first frame and plays. In addition, I have the sync set to Start. At present, it loops fine; however, now I have a moment of dead air when I preview through a browser. Strange, when I test the movie clip in Flash it runs seamlessly.

I'm totally open for suggestions. Right now, I either get some dead air with the above technique or, if I loop, it layers the same track on the previous one and keeps layering until it reaches its specified # of loops.

Thanks again,
DanH

 

[billwatson]

if using mx then try adding mysound.start() in frame 1 and mysound.stop() in frame 85
idea to make it start fresh in each loop as its clearly not doing this.

 

[danielh68]

Great Bill, Thanks! Works perfectly!!! --dan