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Tayger
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How to remove Toggle SM2 debug console button?
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Hello
How can I remove the -/+ box in either the upper right or left corner called "Toggle SM2 debug console"?
Its nice to check the debug at development state, but later on it no more necessary.
Greetings
Tayger

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Question asked on October 12, 2008 21:46
llcooljayce
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Noob ... needs ... you guessed it ... HELP!?!?!?
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Hey guys,

I'm not new to coding but I'm not sure what I am doing wrong ...

The page in question is http://sarei.ca

I am trying to play a sound file for the pronunciation of my future daughter's name when the user clicks on the speaker ... like on Dictionary.com

When the page loads I get the following debug information:

soundManager.initComplete(): calling soundManager.onerror()
-- SoundManager 2 failed to load (security/load error) --
soundManager.disable(): Disabling all functions - future calls will return false.
soundManager: Failed to initialise.
soundManager: No Flash response within reasonable time after document load.
Possible causes: Flash version under 8, no support, or Flash security denying JS-Flash communication.
soundManager: Getting impatient, still waiting for Flash.. ;)
soundManager.beginDelayedInit(): Document loaded
soundManager._initMovie(): Waiting for ExternalInterface call from Flash..
soundManager._initMovie(): Got EMBED element (created via JS)
soundManager._createMovie(): Trying to load /flash/soundmanager2.swf
-- SoundManager 2 V2.80a.20081005 (AS2/Flash 8) --

What I don't understand is:

1. When I am referencing the flash folder soundManager.url = '/flash/'; // directory where SM2 .SWFs live ... what is supposed to be in that folder? Am I missing something here?

2. Why is Flash not loading? I have the most recent version ....

Things I know that happen:

1. When I click on the link to the mp3 file, it defaults to playing on a new page in Quicktime

2. I reference the mp3 file by using a href="/sounds/sarei.mp3"

So I am unsure what I am doing wrong .... any help would be greatly appreciated

Cheers

Jayce

Just noticed that not all of my html tags were showing up but you can see my code at the site ....

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Tayger last replied on October 12, 2008 21:03
Karl O'Keeffe
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SetPosition before sound has loaded stops soundManager playing in other tabs!
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If you attempt to set the position of a sound before that sound has loaded, other sound manager instances in other tabs will stop playing.

This seems to only happen with Flash 8.

To recreate:

* Using Firefox
* Load jsAmp is one tab (http://www.schillmania.com/projects/s...=1)
* Start jsAmp playing
* Run the following code in a separate tab:
soundManager.onload = function() { soundManager.createSound({id: 'test'}).setPosition(0); };

What happens:
* jsAmp stops playing!

What should happen:
* jsAmp should keep playing.

Work arounds:
* Ensure that the song has loaded up to where you want to set the position:
if (sound.duration !== null && sound.duration >= position) { sound.setPosition(position); }

It's an unusual scenario, but I've just encountered it in my project so thought I'd let everyone know.

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Problem reported on October 10, 2008 15:26
igilman
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Flash crash: destroying a sound while in its callback
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My script has a soundManager.onload handler that, on a failed load, calls soundManager.destroySound on the sound in question. Turns out this is a bad idea, since I'm deleting the sound that owns the callback I'm in. This results in a sporadic crash in Flash (maybe once every 20 times) in IE, and less frequently on Firefox in Windows. The same code doesn't crash at all in either of the Mac browsers (Firefox or Safari). I've worked around it by calling destroy outside of the callback, but I thought I'd report it, so it could either be fixed in the Flash or at least documented ("don't delete a sound while you're in its callback!")

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Karl O'Keeffe last replied on October 10, 2008 09:27
vraylle
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removeCallback Error unloading SoundManager
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When leaving a page in IE7 that uses Soundmanager 20081005, there is an error: "Object doesn't support this property or method". If I go in to debug, the guilty line looks to be:

__flash__removeCallback(document.getElementById("sm2movie"), "_destroySound");

No errors in FF or Chrome.

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Scott (Official Rep) last replied on October 10, 2008 01:08
j0llyr0g3r
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soundmanager not working at all?
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Hi,

so far, your player doesn't seem to work at all.

I used a simple sample-setup:

ls foo/
first.mp3 soundmanager2_flash9.swf soundmanager2.js soundmanager2.swf testsoundmanager.html

- "first.mp3" is a valid mp3
- the swf-files are the original soundmanager-flashfiles, the same holds for "soundmanager.js"
- testsoundmanager.html looks like this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html>
<head>
<meta />
<title>fooo</title>
</head>

<body>

</body>
</html>

( i commented out the "script"-section in the body, because obviously your forum-system doesn't accept the html-code when i try to submit it!)

So, as you can see, i followed your guide here http://www.schillmania.com/projects/s... exactly so far.

Now, when i call the site from my browser, the music starts immediately, but the html-output looks like this:

SMSound._onload(): "helloWorld" loaded.
SMSound._onid3(): "helloWorld" ID3 data received.
soundManager.onload() complete
soundManager.load(): ./first.mp3
SMSound.play(): Attempting to load "helloWorld"
SMSound() merged options: {
id: helloWorld,
url: ./first.mp3,
autoLoad: false,
stream: true,
autoPlay: false,
onbeforefinishtime: 5000,
onjustbeforefinishtime: 200,
multiShot: true,
pan: 0,
volume: 100
}
soundManager.createSound(): helloWorld (./first.mp3)
soundManager.initComplete(): calling soundManager.onload()
-- SoundManager 2 loaded (OK) --
(Flash): Enabling polling
Flash security sandbox type: localTrusted
(Flash): _externalInterfaceTest(): JS <-> Flash OK
Attempting to call JS -> Flash..
-- soundManager.init() --
soundManager._externalInterfaceOK()
(Flash): Flash -> JS OK
soundManager._initMovie(): Waiting for ExternalInterface call from Flash..
soundManager._initMovie(): Got EMBED element (created via JS)
soundManager._createMovie(): Trying to load ./soundmanager2.swf
-- SoundManager 2 V2.80a.20081005 (AS2/Flash 8) --

I disabled the flash-plugin security manager for this (local) file location, so this shouldn't be the problem.

Any ideas on this issue? Can anyone reproduce this?

P.S.: System information: Ubuntu Hardy, Firefox 3.03, Flash-Plugin: Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124

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j0llyr0g3r last replied on October 09, 2008 15:36
MrHash
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Setup with Flash server
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Hello, is it possible to use soundmanager2 served by a media server (eg. Flash/Wowza) to provide streaming content? ie. using NetStream class? thanks

Hash

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MrHash last replied on October 09, 2008 04:45
Karl O'Keeffe
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sound.destruct doesn't stop a sound playing when using flash 9
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When using Sound Manager with flash 9, calling sound.destruct() doesn't stop the sound playing.

Test case to recreate:
var s = soundManager.createSound({id:'a', url:'/static/js-unit-tests/data/track.mp3'}); s.play(); s.destruct();

With flash 9 the sound keeps playing. The sound should be stopped.

With flash 8 the sound is correctly stopped.

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Scott (Official Rep) last replied on October 08, 2008 01:52
Karl O'Keeffe
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Different durations in flash 8 and flash 9
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Just thought I'd let people know that flash 8 and flash 9 can return different durations for the same mp3.

When I call sound.duration() the value (in milliseconds) returned by flash 9 is one less that that returned by flash 8.

e.g.

sound.duration() == 1000 // in flash 8 sound.duration() == 999 // in flash 9

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Scott (Official Rep) last replied on October 08, 2008 01:38
Karl O'Keeffe
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sound.onload is not called for missing mp3 files using Flash 9
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Using the Flash 9 version of Sound Manager, it seems that onload is not getting called for mp3 files that don't exist.

Example
soundManager.createSound({id:'a', url:'/does-not-exist.mp3', onload: function() {alert('a');}}).play();

Using the flash 9 version there is no alert.

It works fine using the flash 8 version.

I would like to use the flash 9 version because the flash 8 version is crashing Firefox when I try and destroy the sound files, and the work around of only doing the destruction in callbacks will complicate my code.

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Scott (Official Rep) last replied on October 08, 2008 01:36
Karl O'Keeffe
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SoundManager v2.78a.20080920 breaks in IE, line 458 attempts to assign to undeclared variable html
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SoundManager v2.78a.20080920 breaks in IE.

Line 458 attempts to assign to undeclared variable html

I my local copy I have added a var statement to declare html as a local variable. This seems to work OK, but without being more familiar with the code base I can't be sure. It would be great if a developer could look into this.

Line 458 now reads:

var html = (!_s.isIE?htmlEmbed:htmlObject);

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Karl O'Keeffe last replied on October 07, 2008 14:38
Crashit
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implement a download link/button
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I need to add a download link for the mp3 files, but each link acts as another "player" no matter where it is located on the page. Any thought?

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Question asked on August 14, 2008 02:03
uncle_fed
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IE: a short sound fragment is played during createSound
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I am testing the following combination: IE6 + Flash 9 plugin + SoundManager 2 V2.78a.20080920 (in Flash 8 mode!)

I've got the following options set:
soundManager.defaultOptions.autoLoad = true;
soundManager.defaultOptions.autoPlay = false;

I then use the soundManager.onload to call several soundManager.createSound()'s.
The problem is that I can hear a very short (maybe a fraction of a second) fragment of the sound while it is being loaded. This does not happen in Firefox. Even if I wrap the createSound() in mute() / unmute() calls it does not help to silence those 'fragments'

Thank you for your time!

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Scott (Official Rep) last replied on October 07, 2008 05:12
bum51
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unload vs. destroySound
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So for a while I've been having a small problem in my pre-loader script for mp3s. I've realised that I am just commiting the "unload" command and not actually destroying the sounds, and so if I go and create the sounds again later, with the same ID and such, with autoLoad set to true, then the file does not actually begin to load until it starts playing.

Now there IS an obvious fix for this; switch to destroySound (should be better on memory anyway, and is now my plan when I have access to it), or even just check to see if it exists already and start loading it. But it definitely took a while for me to find that tiny bug, so I was thinking, in case anyone else runs into the same error, could there be a way that SM2 checks when "re-creating" an existing one if any of the settings have changed? I've found that if it already exists then it just ignores any changes (such as volume as well, which could be very important), which has been a bit of a pain. ♦

Anyway, that's my 2 cents.

Also, great job on the MovieStar stuff, that's bloody brilliant! You are my hero!

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Idea shared on October 06, 2008 18:58
Ross
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Loading SoundManager with a dynamic script tag
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I'm trying to load SoundManager 2 dynamically, rather than by placing a script tag in my <head>. I've written the code that seems to nearly work -- the flash object is created and added to the DOM, it responds to createSound and play, but when play is called, it does everything except actually make sound. Below is the code I'm using to load. Any thoughts?

var setupSoundManager = function() { var script = document.createElement("script"); script.type = "text/javascript"; script.src = "Resources/soundmanager2.js"; script.addEventListener("load", function() { window.x = soundManager; soundManager.url = "Resources/"; // path to directory containing SoundManager2 .SWF file soundManager.onload = function() { soundManager.createSound("foo", "Resources/1hz-10khz-sweep.mp3");// etc. may now be called soundManager.play("foo"); }; soundManager.beginDelayedInit(); }, YES); document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(script); }</head>

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Scott (Official Rep) last replied on October 04, 2008 19:04
alosii
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'_s.o._createSound' [undefined] ??
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Where is the _s.o._createSound function? And why would I get a:
'_s.o._createSound' [undefined] is not a function.

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alosii last replied on October 06, 2008 13:50
MrHash
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AAC/M4A audio support
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Hello. Is there any plan to support AAC audio? i think it can be played through the same class interface in Flash 9... thanks

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MrHash last replied on October 06, 2008 07:59
lily
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How about other audio file format , like FLV file?
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is that possible to play FLV file by using SoundManager 2 ?

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Scott (Official Rep) last replied on October 06, 2008 07:03
bum51
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Waveform and Frequency data issues
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I don't think that it's a problem with SM2 itself, but rather something to do with flash. The issue happens when the user opens another browser tab/window (same browser) that uses flash (with or without sounds I believe)

The issue I've been having is that flash seems to stop giving me any new "data". It seems to keep passing the same data that I already have. It still updates the times and such, but it's like it just forgets about the datas. If I close the other tab then once a new song starts playing, it'll start the data again, but not until after the first one is actually done playing and the next one starts.

As I said, I don't think it's an SM2 issue, but it certainly is quite weird.

http://www.bixtools.com:8088/

If you want to try it out. (Also, thanks so much to Scott for SM2 because otherwise I would never have been able to do any of that ;-)

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bum51 last replied on October 02, 2008 14:43
whalexis
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why soundmanager2 works with FF3.0 and not with IE7.0
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Hi everyone
I use soundmanager and it works fine with firefox but not on internet explorer.
It tells me that it was expecting the flash component.
I have already seen this message when I forgot to copy the soundmanager2.swf file.
But as it works with firefox, I don't understand. Any ideas?
Thanks

Alexis

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Scott (Official Rep) last replied on October 02, 2008 02:48