Sound pre-loaders

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Sound pre-loaders

how do I pre-load sounds on a web page

patrickeriksson

4:37 pm on Oct 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

Hello everyone,

I am using some sounds for rollovers on a site and I need to have them pre-loaded. Does anyone know about a general pre-loader that I can use for this? I have been searching the whole morning but not been able to find anything...

Thanks,

Pat.

dmorison

7:48 pm on Oct 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

First i've heard about pre-loading sounds. There might be something that can be done with a bit of creative JavaScript.

Can you post the few lines of code around where you are actually using a sound so we can see how you're implementing it...

patrickeriksson

8:00 pm on Oct 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

Thanks for helping out.

It's either being used like this:

or in a combination with a regular rollover:

Pat.

keyplyr

6:08 am on Oct 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

You can also do it the old fashion way. In the <HEAD> put:

This will put the file into the browser's cache. Greatly increases the normal load time, however it's not a miracle fix since the pluggin will still need to be called and started.