XML MP3 Player

[m-ed-t]

Hi Guys,

I am building my first Flash website and need a XML mp3 player in it. I have been following this tutorial.

pt1 - http://blog.six4rty.ch/tutorials/fla...sing-xml-pt-1/
pt2 -http://blog.six4rty.ch/tutorials/fla...sing-xml-pt-2/
pt3 -http://blog.six4rty.ch/tutorials/fla...sing-xml-pt-3/

the player in the '"music page" of the site that i am creating
i have placed the player at the beginning of the site, so that the music doesn't reload every time the music page it shown. I then set all the movie clips and buttons to become invisible unless you are on the music page.

** Question
ok finally to the problem that i am having. The code creates a play list menu from the XML file it works great but once it is loaded it overlays everything through the site. does anyone know a way to load this play list into a Movie Clip so i can show and hide it? or is there a better way of doing it?


** Play List Code

playlist = new XML();
playlist.ignoreWhite = true;
playlist.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
_global.songname = [];
_global.songband = [];
_global.songfile = [];
for (var i = 0; i<playlist.firstChild.childNodes.length; i++) {
_global.songname[i] = playlist.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.name;
_global.songband[i] = playlist.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.band;
_global.songfile[i] = playlist.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.file;
attachMovie("butTemp","but"+i,i+50);
eval("but"+i).id=i;
_root["but"+i]._x = 120;
_root["but"+i]._y = 225 + (i*25);
_root["but"+i].but_txt.text = songname[i];
if (i >= 3){
_root["but"+i]._x = 300
_root["but"+i]._y = 150 + (i*25);
}
if (i >= 6){
_root["but"+i]._x = 480
_root["but"+i]._y = 75 + (i*25);
}
_root["but"+i].onRelease = function(){
clearInterval(timeInterval);
_root.timeDisplay_txt.text = "00:00/00:00";
_root.sound_mc.songStarter(songfile[this.id]);
}
}
}
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("sound_mc", 1);
_global.song_nr = random(songfile.length);
_root.sound_mc.songStarter(songfile[song_nr]);
};

Many Thanks
Mark

[punstc]

Hey mark. I use this mp3 player also and have been working on modifing it with a few things myself. Not sure exactly how to help you with your problem but when i get some free time i'll try and see what i can come up with. what you can do though is actually send Taio (i believe thats his name) an email and when he gets time he usually does reply and try to help. I would say that would be your best bet. Also try gotoandlearn.com forums they've been very very helpful with everything i've been trying to modify

give those a try also and i'll get bck to you and let you know if i had any luck.

Jake