Comments on: Music Looping in AS3

By: ifirme.ro

ifirme.ro — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:49:50 +0000

if you add a listener, use it !

function loopMusic(e:Event):void
{
soundChannel.removeEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, loopMusic);
soundChannel = sound.play();
soundChannel.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, loopMusic);

}

By: Ethian

Ethian — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 04:16:20 +0000

Hi i’m new to as3, i try the code, there’s no error but my music just won’t loop…did i miss something that’s not written here?

By: nconde25

nconde25 — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 02:45:06 +0000

@peter:
or you could use a FOR?

By: Sold Out Activist

Sold Out Activist — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 03:08:48 +0000

@alex It’s a good idea, but you forgot to remove the event listener before adding it again. Each playback will add another event listener. After 3 loops, it will have 6 event listeners attached to it, growing exponentially.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 05:44:28 +0000

Hey I like your solution Alex!

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!