sound w/o huge file size

[grimm]

I added some sound to a site of mine but now it takes years to open is there away to compress the sound or make it load quicker, I have a preloader?

[CyanBlue]

Hi...

I don't think it is going to possible unless you reduce the sound settings to the lower ones... I mean the one that says 22Khz, Mono/Stereo, 16/8Bit... It won't be too much of a big deal when you hear, but it will be when it comes down to the file size...
(Don't expect too much of an effect though... :))
Jason

[grimm]

thanks... right now their set to cd quality so I imagine thats a bit to good a quality....

thanks

[CyanBlue]

Um... probably that could be the reason... Tell us what you had and what you have side by side... :)

Jason

[red penguin]

Preload that sucker!

[JHallam]

Attach it on the whole site preloader, tute on this in tutorials section.

[grimm]

I only have one sound loop that plays on the page opening. it just takes bloody forever to load.

I do have a preloader (which I have a question about as well see #2)

Attatch the sound to the site preloader? i don't know what you mean. My preloader sene 1 of my main page loads scene 2 which has everything in it some MC's and sound? (is that what you mean?)


#2 my preloader for the main page works great but when I try to copy the frames over to scene 1 of a different page it dosen't seem to work and locks up my internet explorer. do I need to re-create it for the new page (Seems kinda time consuming)

My site is www.critkit.com check it out and let me know if anyone thinks it coul load faster?

[Clint Critchlow]

Sound is heavy. You want CD quality then you are going to wait.
I would go with mono sound first then cut quality. Make sure your sound is set to stream if you want it to load fast.

[grimm]

I will definatly check into that Clint... and yea sound is huge thats what i thought just wondered if there was a better way to do it.

[grimm]

So i was playing around with the tutorial on the preloader attach sound method. and i did get it to work as far as I know. i took the tutorial and merged it with the preloader I currently already have.

2 things i am wondering about.
I vaguly remember something about some code that will get the (time) of what has been played and then when going to the next page it continues from there?

effect I want: My sound to continue from page to page except certain pages

the second thing is (maybe it's just the t1 service at work, but i don't see my preloader anymore. the screen goes blank then the page opens?

Could this be cause I put the MC with the sound code on the first frame of my preloader?