Creating an MP3 Player with Flash CS5 and Actionscript: Part I

Actionscript 3.0 introduced a number of useful objects for working with Sound.  In this tutorial, we’ll create a fully-featured Flash based-Mp3 player.  In doing so, we’ll deal with several concepts in Flash and Actionscript.  In this tutorial you will learn to use:

• Flash Components


• addEventListner() method


• Call back functions


• Timer() Objects


• Sound() Objects


• The SoundLoaderContext() Object


• The SoundChannel() Object


• SoundTransform() Object

While using these Actionscript 3.0 concepts we’ll create an Mp3 player with play, stop , pause, volume controls, pan controls, id3 tag display and visualizer.

In part I we’ll add the play button and actually play the sound.  We’ll introduce the Sound() class and the addEventListener() method.