Comments on: Music Looping in AS3

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:04:18 +0000

Thanks a lot for this solution Love the way and now always use it to control my music!

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:32:32 +0000

Hey, I used a really simple method to loop sound.

function playSound(event:Event):void
{
myChannel = mySound.play();
myChannel.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, playSound);
}

As for only looping it a certain amount of times…you could just keep duplicating this function but changing the names for however many times you want it to loop. (playSound1, playSound2, playSound3, etc…) Then just redirect each function to the next one on SOUND_COMPLETE.

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By: Graeme

Graeme — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:50:41 +0000

@Ruth the != null is there to prevent an exception being thrown if you try to delete something that is null already

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:27:23 +0000

I think you can get around having to remove the listeners every time by using weak references, detailed here:

http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/07/as3_weakly_refe.html

I’ve not tried it, but it sounds like what you’re after – weak references don’t stop something being garbage collected.

Loved Zunderfury, by the way!

By: ZennMaster

ZennMaster — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:15:10 +0000

Thanks man, i’ve been searchin for something like this simple musicChannel = music.play(0, int.MAX_VALUE);

By: David B

David B — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:11:58 +0000

I’ve used the the same methods as thise described above several times. A simpler way to achieve the same thing is to use the following:

musicChannel = music.play(0, int.MAX_VALUE);

This basically takes the maxium integer value available in AS3 as the second param. It should be sufficient enough for most use cases.

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By: Ruth

Ruth — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:24:46 +0000

i’m sry, but wat is that musicChannel != null checking?

By: Jadon

Jadon — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:35:49 +0000

cool thanks, although i think:

musicChannel.removeEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, loopBackgroundMusic);

should be:

musicChannel.removeEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, loopMusic);