I am fairly new to actionscript 3, and coding in general, and I am trying to build a music application with a user account system, using which each different user can access their own music files.
I have found many tutorials online on how to create music players and playlists, user login systems, but nothing that combines these into one application.
I have a site that includes a Flash music player integrated into the layout. I want users to be able to navigate around the site without interrupting the music. I've done plenty of research and thinking and the following are the options I came up with (keeping in mind I want to be as SEO friendly as possible).
AJAX: I set up a version that changes the main content div to whatever nav link they click, thereby not interrupting the Flash player. I set it up in the proper search-engine-friendly manner with direct links and JQuery/Ajax functions. If someone goes to site.com/ and clicks the Contact nav link, it loads what's in the main content div on site.com/contact.php into the main content div and changes the URL bar to site.com/#Contact. The same goes for if they go to site.com/contact.php and click About in the nav, it loads the About content and changes the URL bar to site.com/contact.php#About. Obviously this opens up a whole new can of worms with AJAX and hash navigation/history issues, and I would end up with people possibly linking to things like site.com/contact.php#About (which I think looks terrible and can't be too great for SEO). Store the Flash player vars somewhere and reload them with the page: I'm not sure how to go about this, but I thought about keeping my regular navigation without AJAX and have it so when a user clicks a nav link, before it changes pages it stores the Flash player vars (current song and song position) somewhere, then loads them into Flash when the new page loads. Something with an iframe? Good alternative to a Flash player that will work for this type of application?
Is it possible for Flash or possibly Adobe AIR to have access to a local Access database?
I will have either a Flash EXE or AIR application running on a local PC (WinXP). The PC will also have a local Access database. I need my Flash application to get the data from this Access database. How would I do this?
I doubt it can be done with Flash or AIR alone (someone prove me wrong or right), but is there an option for some middle-man application to access the data base and send it on to Flash? How would this work?
Or could I read the MDB file into Flash and parse it myself? is there a library for this?
Does anybody knows how to use the XML as a holder for the values that will be given by the user for example. Parent's name: _. then whatever the user's input i should move that and hold that by the xml. i just dont how. i read lot of books but i can't find any answer. This is for my senior project.URL...
View 2 RepliesI want to build a custom MP3 player for my website.even explain just to get me started?
View 3 RepliesI'm creating a website for a local band and in this site is an animated banner with a music player incorporated on it. The banner has been made in Flash using AS2.I'm having a bit of a problem at the moment figuring out a way to get my 'Next' and 'Previous' buttons working, so that once they are clicked the user can toggle through different songs, and be able to play and stop each song as they require.
View 1 Repliesi need a flash player (to embed in a html file) that can play external files mp3 through xml and just a simple play and pause buttons... i've been searching in google but it just shows up players with a big playlists and too much buttons for my work
View 2 RepliesAnyone have any idea about how works the player ReverbNation? When I'm browsing the website, the player don't stop. It's still playing the song without pause o cut. And nor have frame/iframes.
View 2 RepliesI have a flash music player at ith a Facebook like button.I've set OpenGraph meta tags in order to specify the url of the flashobject :
<meta property="og:video:type" content="application/x-shockwave-
flash" />
<meta property="og:video" content="http://www.etiennechampollion.com/
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I currently have an HTML website but add some music.The specific type of music player I want looks a lot like this:[URL]It seems that it is flash based.how I can find the proper code and steps in adding this to my current HTML based website? Is it even possible since my site is not a flash site?I adore this music player but I'm not sure how it would work and where I can find the proper information on either downloading it or coding it into my website.
View 1 RepliesIm trying to create a flash music player much like the one at [URL].. but I cant seem to get it to load the swf files that are the songs and im stumped as to why. Ill post my player .fla and .txt file playlist along with my test swf song if anyone
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Basically what I'm looking to do is build a music player in flash and embed it into an HTML page. Now the trick is, I need the player to stay present when a user clicks thru different areas of the site. (I.E. different html pages) However I do not want the flash to reload each time they go to a different page. Is there a way to have the Flash sit on top of HTML pages and not refresh when a user goes to a different page, or an alternative would be for when the next page loads, the music player knows where it left off and starts from its ending point on the page before. Building the site in iFrames or any frames will not be an option. The solution I was looking at was to set the page up like the music player was a transparent promotion ad like you see on so many pages these days and see if I could just keep it present when clicking from page to page. This doesnt seem to work.
View 3 RepliesI am trying to figure out if it's possible to embed an external flash music player (in this case sound cloud) to play some of my own tracks in my flash site. I don't want to create my own player as the sound cloud player is really nice and also has stats.
View 2 RepliesAlright so I'm making a website for my friends band, and they want to have a music player to play their MP3's. One of the things I'm concerned about though, is the security of the MP3 files. Their albums are on iTunes to buy, so I'm looking for what the best option to have the MP3s be played but not be able to be downloaded and saved.The best thing I can think of is embedding the MP3's inside a Flash music player, but that would be more work than it's worth it seems.
View 2 Replieshow tp use databases with Flash CS4 ?I have created a form, an email page and a username/password protected pages, but I cannot find any tutorials that would help me how to connect to a database.
View 7 RepliesI have to access database from flash 3.0, but dont need to communicate with php or any server side languages, I have to directly connect to database,
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to make a simple music player with only one button for Play & Pause the music. What I have now is a MovieClip with:
1st Keyframe: active state for play Button
2nd Keyframe: active state for pause button
3rd Keyframe: hover state for play button
4th Keyframe: hover state for pause button
The script works OK, and play and pause the music without problems as expected.
The problem comes after the second click in the play/pause button when the alternance between two states becomes chaotic. The button never returns to the play state although the music was paused.
This is the code:
/**** Objects and Vars ****/
var AutoPlay:Boolean = false;
var isPlaying:Boolean = false;
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First of all I am using Flash MX 2004 and have Office 2003.
I am trying to use my flash form to insert data into a ms access database but it is not going too well.
I have 4 input fields on the flash form and a submit button, ActionScript on the Submit button is as follows.[code]...
I have a map as a button in flash and a database in access, how can I show the data in asscess in flash , now i know there is no a direct link from access to flash and I have to use PHP, ASP, etc.... But really I am not a programmer and I don't want to be .. so any easier way to do this?
View 7 Repliesjust like facebook game, I see that even I am playing facebook social game, it still have some downloading when I click on an item for the first time, or just by doing something new. Is that people can divide flash into many parts and connect them when they need?
View 1 RepliesI am trying to put together a simple game and have been doing really well until I decided I am going to have to create a new class to handle enemies.What I have so far is a player walking around on random terrains and I am up to the point where I have placed x amount of enemies on stage at appropriate times. I have written their class which will hopefully eventually handle their behavior and it outputs simple trace("BOO!").
Where I face the problem is that I obviously would like to make these enemies follow the player to attack. But when I try to access the .x or .y attributes of the player, it throws an error: 'call to a possibly undefined property with static type Class'?I have tried accessing the .x using the following ways (where badger is my player instance and Main is my class definition within the properties of the FLA):
Main.badger.x
Main(root).badger.x
Stage.badger.x
I have also tried to access other vars and still nope..My class code is this:
Code:
package
{
import flash.display.MovieClip
import flash.display.Stage
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I am making flash CS4-based music player with ActionScript 3. When I host the player on my site, e.g. [URL], and play an mp3 on the server of my site, e.g.[URL], it works well.
When I link to an mp3 of another site, e.g. [URL], in my local machine, it also works. However, when I host the music player in my site [URL], and play an mp3 of [URL], then it can't be played.
I have got three screenshots below of Flash-based audio players on various websites that draw a waveform of the clip it is going to play and moves along while it is playing and also allowing the user to click on a point on the audio file and it jumps to that point.I have very little Flash knowledge but is this easy to achieve? I would like to just show the Flash file an mp3 and it draws the waveform. I understand this could be quite intensive on CPU so would there be a way of caching the waveform data so it doesn't redraw each time the file is loaded?
View 5 RepliesInside my /test folder/music_player/ have have a file called mini_player.swf. If I play it without embedding it anywhere, like this: [URL].. everything is OK. But when I add it into my index page: [URL].. the song doesn't start.
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how to create a custom player that would stream a list of youtube videos along with soundcloud, and MP3 similar to the one on [url]....I know that this might seem like quite a general question but any direction on how to accomplish this and whether it should be done using flash and Youtube API, and sound cloud API or whether it should be done with some sort of flash audio ripping way.
View 1 RepliesI am working on one CD presentation for chamber of commerce I have to make a search engine in this CD presentation. they have 8,000 company name address email website address and product details in Access data base can i make a search in flash MX or is there any possibility to search from XLS file
View 1 RepliesI want to know can we use access's database to work with flash or adobe air?
and if u have any sample of a database which work with air or flash in local
how to make a connection with my swf and an Access DataBase... or do you know where can I found this information?
View 2 RepliesIs it at all possible for flash to access images from outside flash the way it draws info from a database?
View 1 Replies[URL] I got partial success with the tutorial above, but couldn't figure out a few things.
1) How to save the date and time to the database? Based on web search result on how to find date or time in APS, I thought I could do
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but the ASP generated errors on the 2 lines.
2) When executing the file (getURL("http://yourSite.com/processForm.asp",0,"post");
}), it always opens the processForm.asp file in a new window. Can it be executed in the same window or just being hidden?
The tutorial is old, and I wonder if there are new ways to do the things with CS4 or CS5?
