flash (macromedia):

yourSound.stop();

No, you could just insert the sound in a movie clip. Set its preferences so
that it is set to stream. You then see that the a scribble representing the
sound is place in your timeline (insert some frame if needed).
Then create another layer inside the movieclip. there you can place a
stop(); action at the frame you want the sound to stop. However, the movie
will all be embedded in the .swf file, thus increasing its size. This
solution is good if you use the other part of the music somwhere else in
your movie(or if you don't care about filesize) otherwise use a third party
program to cut the music :)


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LCC_51,

This is the actual definition of what lumeeguvnor was say:
***
my_sound.stop(["idName":String]) : Void
*Parameters*
idName An optional parameter specifying a specific sound to stop playing. The
idName parameter must be enclosed in quotation marks (" ").
***
Otherwise you would stop all sounds? Sounds right to me. Same thing anyways.
And no version of lash currently released is capable of importing .mid/.midi
files, nor .mod files, both due to the compression types each file type uses
(hence their relatively small size!)

Regards,

Rangar Talisman

oh...

Same thing as far as I'm concerned
(I'm not defending myself as such - technically I am wrong, no question there)

I will rephrase - it is the way it is stored / what it is used to run with

So... I take it Flash has no midi player? I thought those were pretty inate
things for programs today (more music will play if the midi drivers are chosen
for a computer game, etc.?
I would like to know more about this cause I see midi files as stored
differently to current day sound/music formats and is therefore compressed
differently? I get the feeling im talking @#$% here, so I'll shu up, ok. lol

Thank lumeeguvnor!

Regards,

Rangar Talisman

lol
you may or may not be talking @#$% i don't know - i am just remembering my midi days in the 80's.
long time ago now
cheers