Creating a Basic Audio Box in Flash

This tutorial will teach you how to create an extremely simple music box in Flash with very little scripting. You can use this music box in your blog, in a forum, a portfolio, personal webpage, etc. I used this in my blog, I think that it gives it this atmospheric feeling to the blog, and it's cool to have one anyway! Our music box is going to be extremely basic, will contain two buttons and two frames: Play and Stop. You press play, the music starts, press stop and the music stops as well.

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Creating a Basic Audio Box in Flash

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