This tutorial is Part 1 of a series of tutorials on creating a music player. Click the links below to view the other posts in the series:

• Part 2 - Creating a Volume Slider
• Part 3 - Creating a Pause Button
• Part 4 - Creating a Mute Toggle Button

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Lately it seems that everyone has become somewhat of a music snob. Everyone is convinced that his or her taste in music is perfectly objective and that anyone who doesn't like his or her favorite band is intellectually inferior. For instance, if you were to tell me that you didn't adore The Shins, Led Zeppelin, and/or Billy Joel, I would probably write your mother a letter, verbally assaulting her for drinking so much vodka while she was pregnant.

Anyways, in an era where melodic snobbishness is so prevalent, everyone with a website (or a MySpace account) wants to play their favorites for the whole world to hear, so if you're a Flash designer/developer, it might do you some good to learn how to import, play, and modify sound in ActionScript.In this tutorial, I'm going to introduce you to using sound in ActionScript 3, and in later posts, we'll start to get a little more in depth with the different things we can do with sound.

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