At 3:46 PM +0100 9/23/02, you wrote:
>Hi Buzz,
> Ive got things working almost right but im stuck on how to get the tags of
>the subsequent track and put it into the gSong2List. i though what i needed
>to do was in the prepare movie handler, as the movie loads i need all the
>tags from all the files before the user sees the GUI.
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>so far it looks like this:
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>global mp3Files, gSong1List,dummyStreamer,platChar
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>on prepareMovie
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> --creats a list from the contents of folder audio (track names)--
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> fx = new(xtra "fileXtra3")
> platChar = the last char of the moviePath
> mp3Files = fx.fx_folderToList(the moviePath & "audio" & platChar)
> -- put mp3Files
> fx = VOID
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> --create empty lists--
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> gSong1List = []
> gSong2List = []
> gSong3List = []
> gSong4List = []
> gSong5List = []
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> dummyStreamer = new(#swa) -- create new swa file--
> dummyStreamer.URL = member("Song1").filename --tells dummy to look at
>song 1 file name--
> dummyStreamer.preLoadBuffer() -- preloads song1 to get at tags--
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>-- BELOW IS WHERE IM TRING TO CHANGE THE FILE NAME SO IT CAN READ THE NEXT
>TRACKS TAGS--
>--BUT BECAUSE I CAN ONLY PUT THE TAGS INTO THE LIST IN A FRAME SCRIPT I CAN
>ONLY CARRY OUT THE DUMMY STREAMER COMMAND ONCE IN THE PREPAREMOVIE SCRIPT
>OTHERWISE IT WILL ONLY RETUN THE LAST TRACKS TAGS AND NOT ALL OF THE TRACKS
>TAGS?--
before setting a new filename, you have to do
dummyStreamer.stop()
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> set member ("Song1").filename = \
> the moviePath & "audio" & platChar & getat(mp3Files ,2)-- get the
>next track file name--
> dummyStreamer = new(#swa)
> dummyStreamer.URL = member("Song1").filename
> dummyStreamer.preLoadBuffer()
>end
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>I had to put this in a frame script to work.
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>global dummyStreamer, gSong1List
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>on prepareFrame me
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> put dummyStreamer.id3tags into gSong1List --- puts tags into list--
> dummyStreamer.erase() --- deleats dummy once tags are in list--
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>end
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> Im hoping there's a way round this? i am very great full for all of your
>help.
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