Play multiple sounds simultaneously?

I've put together a Flash/JavaScript sound player where I can call sound files with JavaScript and have Flash execute this across all platforms. I can even send a stop signal to stop whatever sound is playing at the moment.

I'm now trying to figure out how to play multiple sound files simultaneously. So far I've read that it comes down to associating the file with a different object. The problem is I'm not sure how to check if an object is currently associated with a sound, if the sound disassociates after playing or not and if it doesn't how to disassociate it to clear it up for more sounds. I could pass another parameter from JavaScript with a global variable and have multiple channels in the Flash object however that seems kind of working around the problem instead of dealing with it. Suggestions please?

- John

Flash Scripting

import flash.external.*;
ExternalInterface.addCallback('Sound', null, playsound);
ExternalInterface.addCallback("Stop", null, stopsound);

function playsound(url)
{
 sound = new Sound(soundLoader);
 sound.loadSound(url,true);
}

function stopsound() {sound.stop();}

JavaScript

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>Sound Player</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
function play(url)
{
 var splayer = document.getElementById('splayer');

 if (splayer)
 {
 if (url=='stop' && splayer.Stop!=undefined) {splayer.Stop();}
 else if (splayer.Sound!=undefined) {splayer.Sound(url);}
 else {alert('Undefined, is height and width both at least 1px?');}
 }
}
//]]>
</script>
</head>

<body>

<div><a href="javascript:play('stones.mp3');">play mp3 sound</a></div>
<div><a href="javascript:play('stop');">stop mp3 sound</a></div>

<object data="sound.swf" id="splayer" style="height: 1px; width: 1px;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
 <param name="loop" value="false" />
 <param name="play" value="true" />
 <param name="quality" value="high" />
 <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
</object>

</body>
</html>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>Sound Player</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
function play(url)
{
 var splayer = document.getElementById('splayer');

 if (splayer)
 {
 if (url=='stop' && splayer.Stop!=undefined) {splayer.Stop();}
 else if (splayer.Sound!=undefined) {splayer.Sound(url);}
 else {alert('Undefined, is height and width both at least 1px?');}
 }
}
//]]>
</script>
</head>

<body>

<div><a href="javascript:play('sound1.mp3&1');">play mp3 sound 1</a></div>
<div><a href="javascript:play('sound2.mp3&2');">play mp3 sound 2</a></div>
<div><a href="javascript:play('stop');">stop mp3 sound</a></div>

<object data="sound2-final.swf" id="splayer" style="height: 1px; width: 1px;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
 <param name="loop" value="false" />
 <param name="play" value="true" />
 <param name="quality" value="high" />
 <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
</object>

</body>
</html>

import flash.external.*;
ExternalInterface.addCallback('Sound',null,playsound);
ExternalInterface.addCallback("Stop", null, stopsound);

function playsound(param)
{
 var p = param.split('&');
 if (p[1]=='0') {sound0 = new Sound(sound0); sound0.loadSound(p[0],true);}
 else if (p[1]=='1') {sound1 = new Sound(sound1); sound1.loadSound(p[0],true);}
 else if (p[1]=='2') {sound2 = new Sound(sound2); sound2.loadSound(p[0],true);}
 else if (p[1]=='3') {sound3 = new Sound(sound3); sound3.loadSound(p[0],true);}
 else if (p[1]=='4') {sound4 = new Sound(sound4); sound4.loadSound(p[0],true);}
 else if (p[1]=='5') {sound5 = new Sound(sound5); sound5.loadSound(p[0],true);}
 else if (p[1]=='6') {sound6 = new Sound(sound6); sound6.loadSound(p[0],true);}
 else if (p[1]=='7') {sound7 = new Sound(sound7); sound7.loadSound(p[0],true);}
}

function stopsound()
{
 sound0.stop();
 sound1.stop();
 sound2.stop();
 sound3.stop();
 sound4.stop();
 sound5.stop();
 sound6.stop();
 sound7.stop();
}

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