FLASH 30 second sound clips. Help?!

[Steve1]

I need to create FLASH sound clips like these

http://www.innovationband.com/demos.html

They are using tiny SWF files that stream from a sound clip else where on their server (I think). Meaning the page loads fast and the sound loads as it plays.

The only way I know how to do it is to import the MP3 into flash and play it that way which means the SWF is massive (300k) and takes a long time to load.

Can anyone tell me how to do it the way they have on this site?

Cheers

Steve

[Steve1]

Sorted.

"loadSound" method of the sound object allows MP3 files to be loaded dynamically.

[cbscreative]

Rather than write a tutorial, macromedia.com has some good resources for this. You will need to create a preloader that checks to see if the sound is loaded before the Flash begins to play.