music loop gliches

[monkeybrainz]

hey guys,

i'm experimenting with ambient sound in a movie for the first time. i have a seamless music loop but as it repeats i hear a distinct glitch/pop/pause or something before it begins to play again. is there a way to fix this?

i was just thinking maybe if i find the length of the song's duration, then quickly fade in a second instance of the song as the first one's about to end -maybe the overlap would cover the glitch? hmm, or would it just create another glitch!?

any thoughts?

[CyanBlue]

Howdy... ;)

I remember the same question from this thread...
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=22913

Maybe that applies to you as well, maybe not... Check it out though... ;)

Go this site, http://www.kennybellew.com/, for more sound related tutorials... :)

[monkeybrainz]

hey cb thanks for the link that's one awesome tuturial!

i just tried importing the .wav instead of the .mp3 and that took care of the HUGE glitch & pause between the loop, but there's still a tiny click after it loops (as a music fanatic that drives me nuts)- is there any particular bitrate i should be using/converting from/to...? i'm gonna keep tryin

[CyanBlue]

You sure editted the file properly with no gap at the end, right???

[monkeybrainz]

ya know what i think i didn't!! :rolleyes: it sounds fine in soundforge, but when i play it in any other player i hear a distinct pop at the end/beginning! no other mp3/wav file i've imported into flash is doing that. i'm reading the help files and it seems i have to figure out how to do something called "snap to zero", another words make the beginning and end of the loops not make any noise. does this make sense to someone that knows what they're doing w/ loop editors?

thankya!

[CyanBlue]

Well... It's hard to explain how to do that with words, but here you go...

Open up that WAV file into the sound editor program... and then you will be able to see the wave form of the sound file, right???
Go to the end of the sound, and you might see some flat line... Select from the beginning to the point where that flat line starts... (Mostly done with the mouse dragging...)
and play the selected part, and hear real carefully if you hear the pop...
Now if you don't here, just get rid of the unselected part and save, and import back to Flash to test it...
If you do hear the pop, you will have to select the region real carefully and try it again... It's more likely the trial and error game...

So... Go do some sound editing... ;)

[monkeybrainz]

all right! it's like butta :) smoooooth loop thanks cb

[CyanBlue]

So, simple editing worked for your case??? ;)

[monkeybrainz]

yeah, it takes all kinds...