I'd still appreciate hearing if others with I.E. 6 have trouble with this.
Helmut, your findings are interesting, too. If the problem I experience is related to your experience, why would I.E. be taking longer than other browsers to download? I think they may be unrelated. Also, even after the mp3's are in my I.E. 6 cache, the sound still won't play. If I type in the mp3 URL directly, it plays in Windows MediaPlayer. Then, very rarely, the same sound will successfully play in the swf, but usually not. I may try regenerating the MP3 files in Audition -- I think I set them for MP3Pro and maybe the standard MP3 would have more success.
As for download time, I'm on cable connection, so the images appear within a second or two. The images average 20 KB. Unfortunately the second image is 54 KB, so I should probably reduce it to half the size, or have a loading indicator so the user isn't confused by the wait. The MP3 files average 9.8KB and none is larger than 15 KB. They don't compete for bandwidth, since they are available only after the associated image has loaded.
Thanks, Marc At 10:08 AM 2/23/2006, you wrote:
> -----Original Message----- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Helmut Granda > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:51 AM > To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' > Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] I.E. won't play MP3 (sometimes) > > The name of the bird plays but the arrows don't work on WIN XP IE7. It > works > fine in FF. > > ...helmut Hold that thought, it works on WIN XP IE7 the problem is that the images take too long to load and there is not a built in preloader, so it is hard to know that something is happening in the background, after I sent my email I opened your page again and everything was there and working properly. ...helmut > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Hoffman > > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:38 AM > > To: Flashcoders mailing list > > Subject: [Flashcoders] I.E. won't play MP3 (sometimes) > > > > If you have 10 seconds, please test this so if this problem is only > > on my laptop. > > > > This movie streams short MP3's when the user clicks a button. Works > > fine in I.E. on 3 of my machines, but on my laptop the MP3 never > > plays, although it does get loaded into I.E.'s cache. > > > > I'd appreciate knowing if any of you get the same results. Go to > > http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/birdgame. Click on the bird photo and > > please let me know if you don't hear the bird name announced. Note: > > the intro sound is NOT streamed, so you'll hear it for sure. > > > > thanks, > > Marc > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] > > To change your subscription options or search the archive: > > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > > Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software > > Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training > > http://www.figleaf.com > > http://training.figleaf.com > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > To change your subscription options or search the archive: > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software > Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training > http://www.figleaf.com > http://training.figleaf.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
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