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Your
applications can load sound data from five main sources:
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External sound files loaded at run time
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Sound resources embedded within a SWF file
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Sound data from a microphone attached to the user’s system
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Sound data streamed from a remote media server, such as Flash
Media Server
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Sound data being generated dynamically by using the
sampleData
event handler
Sound data can be fully loaded before it is played back, or it
can be streamed, meaning that it is played back while it is still
loading.
Adobe AIR supports sound files that are stored in the mp3 format.
They cannot directly load or play sound files in other formats like
WAV or AIFF. (However, AIR can also load and play AAC audio files
using the NetStream class.)
The AIR sound architecture includes the following classes:
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Class
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Description
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Sound
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The Sound class handles the loading of sound,
manages basic sound properties, and starts a sound playing.
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SoundChannel
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When an application plays a Sound object,
a new SoundChannel object is created to control the playback. The SoundChannel
object controls the volume of both the left and right playback channels
of the sound. Each sound that plays has its own SoundChannel object.
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SoundLoaderContext
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The SoundLoaderContext class specifies how
many seconds of buffering to use when loading a sound, and whether
the runtime looks for a cross-domain policy file from the server
when loading a file. A SoundLoaderContext object is used as a parameter
to the
Sound.load()
method.
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SoundMixer
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The SoundMixer class controls playback and
security properties that pertain to all sounds in an application.
In effect, multiple sound channels are mixed through a common SoundMixer
object. Property values in the SoundMixer object affect all SoundChannel
objects that are currently playing.
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SoundTransform
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The SoundTransform class contains values
that control sound volume and panning. A SoundTransform object can
be applied to an individual SoundChannel object, to the global SoundMixer
object, or to a Microphone object, among others.
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ID3Info
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An ID3Info object contains properties that
represent ID3 metadata information that is often stored in MP3 sound
files.
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Microphone
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The Microphone class represents a microphone
or other sound input device attached to the user’s computer. Audio
input from a microphone can be routed to local speakers or sent
to a remote server. The Microphone object controls the gain, sampling
rate, and other characteristics of its own sound stream.
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Each sound that is loaded and played needs its own instance of
the Sound class and the SoundChannel class. During playback, the
SoundMixer class mixes the output from multiple SoundChannel instances.
The Sound, SoundChannel, and SoundMixer classes are not used
for sound data obtained from a microphone or from a streaming media
server like Flash Media Server.
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