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I recently upgraded to flash player 9.0.115.0 and I’ve found that when “pausing” an mp3 and storing the song’s position when it was paused and then restarting the song with the position that was stored causes the song to play about 1.5 seconds ahead of where I stopped the song at? This was working fine with the previous version of flash. Anyone else experiencing this?

This bug manifests itself everywhere the new player version(9.0.115.0) is used including the Flash CS3 IDE, Internet Explorer and Firefox. I’ve done a quick search of the flash forums, but I have not seen anyone else with this issue.

I don’t think this is a browser issue since this bug is even reproduced in the actuall flash CS3 IDE. I believe this is an issue with the flash player itself.

I have a simple mp3 player that I have written in flash 8 that streams an MP3 file. The problem is this: When I view the player in IE and let the mp3 file completely download and reload the page, the sound does not auto-play like it should when using the loadSound() streaming option. This seems to be an issue with IE’s cache. So far I have seen this issue in IE 6 and 7 on multiple machines when the cache is enabled. Firefox and flock work perfectly.

Follow these steps to recreate:
1. Go to http://www.findmotive.com/flashautostart/
2. Let the flash completely download the mp3 (You can tell by the green progress bar)
3. Refresh the page

When you refresh the page the green progress bar should show 100%, but it will not auto-play the MP3. To make it play you have to hit the pause/play button.

If I open the URL in a new window or tab then it will auto-play even when fetching the mp3 from the cache. Let me know if you have a solution to this. If I find the solution I will post it here.