sound problem

[flashdudette]

I am having lots of problems with sounds in my movie.
My movie consists of several frames each loading a sound file
The whole movie also has music that I load on the first frame as following:

//create variable to check if sound on for music, voice and sound in general
                playSound = true;
    playVoice = true;
    playMusic = true;
///// initialize variable for sound
if ( playMusic = true) {
    myMusic = new Sound();
    myMusic.attachSound ("music");
    myMusic.start(0,999);
}  else if ( playMusic = false) {
    myMusic.stop();
}

When each following frame loads, it plays a different sound file loaded as follow:

if ( playVoice = true) {
    myVoice = new Sound();  
    myVoice .loadSound("sound/voice1.mp3", true);
    myVoice .start(0, 1);   
}  else if ( playVoice = false) {
    myVoice.stop();
}

I have a button to stop the music with

myMusic.stop();

and the play music button has:

myMusic.start();

a button to stop voice:

myVoice.stop();

Since the music is a sound object off course if I click the music off button, it also stops the voice.
What I want is the following:
I want to be able to have music and let users decide if they want to play it, to stop it, restart it.
I also want them to decide if they want the voice or not.
How can I manage this? Can I have both music and voice and stop either one or both at will?

[oldnewbie]

Would be possibly much easier if you attached your .fla, rather than I (us) having to recreate it to check it out.

[Grifter]

i haven't thoroughly looked at your code but it struck me that you were using "if(playMusic = true)" or something similar... i don't think i've seen it written as this, and am not sure if flash accepts this syntax?

for an if statement you might get away with "if(playMusic == true)", but a much simpler way is "if(playMusic)" which has the same effect. (false is done by "if(!playMusic)").

not sure if this helps at all, just thought i'd point it out.
Grifter