How to play a sound in Actionscript 3 that is not in the same directory as the SWF?

Question

I have a project with a bunch of external sounds to a SWF. I want to play them, but any time I attempt load a new URL into the sound object it fails with either "Error #2068: Invalid Sound" or raises an ioError with "Error #2032 Stream Error".

// Tried with path prefixed with "http://.." "file://.." "//.." and "..")

var path:String = "http://../assets/the_song.mp3";

var url:URLRequest = new URLRequest( path );

var sound:Sound = new Sound();

sound.addEventListener( IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, ioErrorHandler);

sound.addEventListener( SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR, secHandler);

sound.load(url);

Answer 1

Unless you're going to put a full url, don't use http:// or file://

Sound can load an mp3 file from a full or relative url. You just need to make sure your url is correct and valid.

For example, if the full path to the file is http://www.something.com/assets/the_song.mp3, a path of "/assets/the_song.mp3" would work.

Answer 2

Are you sure the sound-file itself is not the problem?

2068    Invalid sound

Sure seems like less of an empty path and more of a format munge.

Answer 3

Well, I've just done a test by putting an mp3 in a directory: soundTest/assets/song.mp3 then creating a swf that calls the mp3 in another directory: soundTest/swfs/soundTest.swf and when I use var path:String = "../assets/song.mp3"; then it compiles with no errors.

What is your actual directory structure?

Answer 4

In both protocol, RTMP & HTTP, the path should be -- "path/to/mp3:file.mp3" or "path/to/mp3:file". I can remember. Please check both.