Loading a remote OGG/MP3

#1

Hi,
I am trying to load a remote audio file, and I’d like to use it as a Sound object:

var urlLoader = new URLLoader();
urlLoader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.BINARY;
urlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onURLLoaderComplete);
urlLoader.load(new URLRequest(url));

and onURLLoaderComplete does:

var loadedSfx = cast(event.target.data, Sound); // event.target is urlLoader

I thought I could simply cast the binary data to Sound, but the data results as an OggS, and it can’t be cast to Sound.

How do I use a downloaded sound file as a Sound? Do I have to extract/convert it to play its content?

Thanks

#2

Perhaps you could use sound.load unstead of URLLoader, or Sound.fromBytes or Sound.loadFromBytes?

var sound = new Sound ();
sound.load (new URLRequest (url));

or

private function onURLLoaderComplete (event:Event):Void {
    
    Sound.loadFromBytes (urlLoader.data).onComplete (function (sound) {
        sound.play ();
    }).onError (function (e) trace (e));
    
});
#3

The first option work, thanks!

In the second option I think you mean

sound = new Sound();
sound.loadSomething(urlLoader.data)
...

as the static method loadFromBytes doesn’t exist for Sound.
sound can do loadPCMFromByteArray and loadCompressedDataFromByteArray, are you referring to one of these functions?

#4

Oops, yeah, I suppose I meant Sound.loadFromFile (path), or yeah, those methods should work for bytes