xml playlist id3 for flash and how to make one and play info.

Can you add an extract of playlist.xml that we can look at too?

<playlist>
 <mp3file track="song1.mp3"/>
 <mp3file track="song2.mp3"/>
 <mp3file track="song3.mp3"/>
 <mp3file track="song4.mp3"/>
 <mp3file track="song5.mp3"/>
</playlist>

great that part works. how do you get it to go back a song or forward a song though using that method? if you can do that for me it would be very appreciated. basically like I originally said I have a back a song button and a forward a song button.

and play song which is the randomplayer mc

Ok replace the code i gave earlier with this:

//------------------------------------------------
//------------------------------------------------

var tracklist = new Array ();
var track ="";
currentSong = "";
var mp3List = new XML ();
mp3List.ignoreWhite = true;
mp3List.onLoad = createPlayList;
mp3List.load ("playlist.xml");
function createPlayList (success)
{
 if (!success)
 {
   return;
 }
 var topLevel = null;
 trace("CHILD: "+this.childNodes.length);
 for (i = 0; i <= this.childNodes.length; i++)
 {
   if (this.childNodes[i].nodeValue == null &&
       this.childNodes[i].nodeName == "playlist")
   {
     topLevel = this.childNodes[i];
       trace("testing"+topLevel);
      
     break;
   }
 }
 if (topLevel != null)
 {
       trace("TOPLEVEL: "+topLevel.childNodes.length);
      
   for (i = 0; i <= topLevel.childNodes.length; i++)
   {
     if (topLevel.childNodes[i].nodeName == "mp3file")
     {
       
           var track = topLevel.childNodes[i].attributes["track"];
               trace("THIS IS PROBLEM: "+topLevel.childNodes[i].attributes["track"]);
                   _root.tracklist.push (track);
     }
      
      // trace("sajid:"+_root.tracklist);
   }
 }
 trace(tracklist);
}
function randomBetween (a, b)
{
 return Math.min (a, b) + random (Math.abs (a - b) + 1);
}
function playTrack ()
{
 var track = _root.track;
 trace("THIS IS TRACK: "+track);
 if (track.getBytesLoaded () == track.getBytesTotal () &&
     track.duration > 0)
 {
   clearInterval (_root.checkLoaded);
   trackID3Info.text = "";
   trackID3Info.text += "Title: " + track.id3.songname +
       newline;
   trackID3Info.text += "Artist: " + track.id3.artist +
       newline;
   trackID3Info.text += "Album: " + track.id3.album +
       newline;
   trackID3Info.text += "Year: " + track.id3.year + newline;
   trackID3Info.text += "Comments: " + track.id3.comment +
       newline;
 }
}
randomPlayer.onPress = function ()
{
 stopAllSounds ();
 var trackNo = randomBetween (0, tracklist.length - 1);
 currentSong = trackNo;
 trace("rand Tracn No: "+trackNo);
 loadSong(currentSong);
}

function loadSong(tNo){
      var track = new Sound ();
 track.onID3 = function ()
 {
       trace("ON ID# CALLED");
   trackID3Info.text = "";
   trackID3Info.text += "Title: " + track.id3.TIT2 + newline;
   trackID3Info.text += "Artist: " + track.id3.TPE1 + newline;
   trackID3Info.text += "Album: " + track.id3.TALB + newline;
   trackID3Info.text += "Year: " + track.id3.TYER + newline;
   trackID3Info.text += "Comments: " + track.id3.COMM +
       newline;
      trace("Album: " + track.id3.TALB + newline);
 };
 track.loadSound (tracklist[tNo], true);
}

function playNext(){
                ++currentSong;
      trace("THIS IS CURRENT: "+currentSong);
      if(_root.currentSong <=(_root.tracklist.length-1)){
            //trace(_root.currentSong +": AND :"+(_root.tracklist.length - 1));
            _root.loadSong(_root.currentSong);
      } else {
            _root.nextPlayer.enabled=false;
      }
}

function playPrev(){
                --currentSong;
      trace("THIS IS CURRENT: "+currentSong);
      if(_root.currentSong >= 0){
            //trace(_root.currentSong +": AND :"+(_root.tracklist.length - 1));
            _root.loadSong(_root.currentSong);
      } else {
            _root.nextPlayer.enabled=false;
      }
}

//------------------------------------------------
//------------------------------------------------


I added two more functions called:

playNext()
and
playPrev()

Call these functions to move to next or previous songs.

You can call then on button actions like this:

on(release){
         _root.playNext();
}

or

on(release){
         _root.playPrev();
}

now there is only one problem with this. if I start it up it will continue to play the mp3 that was playing b4 and play the next one at the same time. I tried doing a track.sound.stop();

but it still plays. Any ideas?

On my cmoputer it does not play the previous song. Because when you loadSound, it should automatically unload the first one.

I will see what i can figure out more here.

Hi, Any success? Let me know where you are stuck and we can resolve it.

none, it still plays the second one over the first one. If it is possible could you replace the random with just a straight play and on hit again stop then use the 2 other buttons to play one forward or one backward?

Please let me know. seems it isnt unloading it still.

could you post the .fla so I can see what I am doing wrong compared to what you are doing? Please let me know. thanks!

yay!, that actually worked,
on(release){
       stopAllSounds();
       _root.playPrev();
}

I will give you some points for that still lol
I forgot all about that.

Will figure out a way of getting you some points. maybe another way to do it. thnx still. was just weird and I forgot about that command :/

>  Will figure out a way of getting you some points

Really, don't worry about it ;-)

I just wanted to help, ssdesign did all of the hard work!

btw, seems there is another error in here. it wont play intil you press the play button twice. any help?