Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / July 2008

From what you typed, it appears you are placing a sound clip inside a movie
clip and trying to control the sound by controlling the play head for that
movie clip. This method doesn't allow much control over your sound. You should
use linkage id's to control your sound.

Import a sound file into the library, right-click the sound file, go to
linkage, give the sound clip an identifier name, click to export for action
script and first frame. Then, to initially start a sound clip, put this code in
a frame:

var soundClip:Sound=new Sound(this);
soundClip.attachSound("idName");
soundClip.start();

soundClip is a random variable name
idName is the linkage name you gave the file

Then, when you click another button and want to stop the current sound, you
can place this code on the button or movie clip:

on(press) {
soundClip.stop();
}

If you set up the soundClip sound on the main time line, and have this button
nested in other movie clips, you will have to reference the correct timeline by
_root.soundClip.stop(); Of course, you can always use:

on(press) {
stopAllSounds();
}

to stop all sounds currently playing (at least in this case). Now, in order to
begin a new sound when you click a new button, you would use similar code:

on(press) {
// soundClip.stop();
// _root.soundClip.stop();
// stopAllSounds();
var sound2:Sound=new Sound(this);
sound2.attachSound("idName");
sound2.start();
}

The above code, you have three choices to stop previous sounds. Of course, you
would have to import your second sound file into the library, (follow steps as
in the first sound clip)... make sure you give it a different linkage name
"idName".

Unless I read your post wrong, all the things I mentioned should help you.