Hello all,
I'm trying to work with sound for the first time and I've ran into this problem; When ever I try to call the sound.length property I get a 0 returned. Calling it as nameOfMySound.length, anyone run into this before?

[Nutrox]

How soon after you start the sound playing are you trying to get the sound's length? If you are playing an external MP3 file or something then you won't get the full length of the sound until it has fully loaded.

I have a solution for this in my blog:
www.si-robertson.com/actionscript-tips/#total-time-of-streaming-music

[danwoods]

Can you post another link? I checked it out yesterday and when I got up to implement it today it's been taken down

[danwoods]

never mind, google cached it

[danwoods]

I'm still getting zero for a Sound.length. Here's my implemntation of your code:

Calling it:

var music:Sound = new Sound();
	//jsAlert("From Flash: new sound is created");
	music.load(new URLRequest(newTrack));
	//jsAlert("From Flash: music loading");
	sc = music.play();
	sc.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, loadNextTrack);
	//get song length
	var songLength:Number = getLength( music );
	//and send it to javascript:setHighlight to time the pulses
	ExternalInterface.call("setHighlight", newTrack, index, songLength);
	isPlaying = true;

and the actual function:

function getLength( snd:Sound ):Number
{
    var length:Number = 0;

    if( snd.bytesLoaded )
    {
        length = snd.length * ( snd.bytesTotal / snd.bytesLoaded );
    }

    return length;
}

The song files maybe longer than normal song files, with most between 6 and 15 minutes, could that have anything to do with it?
Thanks for the assistance...

[Nutrox]

You're not waiting for the file to start loading, Sound.load() isn't a synchronous method. When the file does begin loading you can then read the sound length but it will only be a "best guess" until the file has fully loaded, Flash can't [for example] predict the sound length of variable-bit-rate sound files. If you want the actual sound length before the file is loaded, or has fully loaded, then you will need to use a ByteArray, and assuming the file is MP3, read all of the MPEG audio tags to determine the total sound length. An alternative would be to store the sound length in a XML file or something and load it when needed.

This will be my last post for a while so I wish you all the best with your project.

[danwoods]

Thanks man, I'll work it out

[Nutrox]

Did you manage to get things working?