I have a problem concerning sound files in Director 7.0.2. I am running on a 
Mac G3, and have imported sound files into external casts for use in 
multiple movies. I have edited my sound files in SoundEdit 16 v2. The files 
range from 37K to 120K with measurements of 16 bit, mono; 22.050kHz.Most of 
these sounds are rollovers.

My problem is, sometimes a sound just won't work through the puppetSound 
command. If I go to the properties, It seems to work fine when I play it. If 
I change the sound member's name to anything else, it seems to work. But it 
won't work under the name for which I imported it.

I have been to the the technotes of Macromedia and have found an article (ID 
3188) which seems to address this problem. It says that when a sound is 
shared between two movies, it will sometimes not play and that it will show 
a bit depth of 0. Therefore you should unload the member before trying to 
play the sound again, via this script:

--  on mouseUp
   --    if the sampleSize of member "mysound" = 0 then unloadMember 
"mysound"
   --    puppetSound "mysound"
   --    updateStage
   --  end

The two problems with this is that the sounds that won't play, don't play 
the first time I import them, and before I have even shared the cast with 
another movie much less played a second movie. I have tried the fix in my 
startMovie handler, and have gotten a Script error:

Script error: Property not found
the sampleSize of member "filename"
#sampleSize

Then when I test for the sampleSize via the message window, I get the same 
error. Even when I remove and re- iport the same file, I get the same 
problem. But if I change the name of the file from "filename" to "filename2" 
the sound works fine. I am not above doing this, I just want to make sure 
that this will fix the problem when I burn for distribution. Also, some 
sounds I use multiple times in multiple movies, "quit" for example, so, I 
don't think just renaming "quit" to "quit2"  or "quit3", or "quit4" etc. 
will be a feasible plan.

So there's my problem, I hope someone may have some information concerning 
this problem and will help me.

I thank you ahead of time,
Sincerely,
six_shadow9
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