Flash / actionscript 3 sound delay

Question

Im working on a flash project where I am loading multiple sounds from external files. The problem is that when I play them within my project there is a small delay from when they should be played until they are actually playing.

My sounds are very short and are loaded before the project is actually using them. I have looked up the problem online and it looks like the problem is not something that is only happening for me. But, non of the resources I found had any clear ways of fixing this.

Some resources say that you can fix this my constantly having a sound playing in the background. I have that but it does not help. I have also looked at the actual sound file in a sound tool and there is a small delay before the sound starts, but it is very very small and should not result in the delay im seeing in my flash project.

Does anyone know of a good way to fix it?

Answer 1

Hi guys I had the same problem I had the delay before playing sond, the delay is of about 500ms, maybe 300. I tried wav files also but the same I tried to play swf from folder and the delay seem to be not anymore. It seems that the delay is present only when playing from CS4 program after compiling. If playing not from program, but opening swf file with an standalone player, the delay seem to be gone...