SoundSkin is a light weight (under 1.5k) wrapper for AS3 Sound objects which provides an easy and robust interface for controlling sound playback. SoundSkin can be constructed with a preloaded Sound object, or manage the loading of an external audio file. The SoundSkin code library includes the basic SoundSkin class for simple sound control, and a SoundSkinFx class which adds volume fade transitions.

Main library features:

• Percentage-based scrub and volume controls.
• Built in mute controls.
• Length estimation for downloading audio.
• Robust looping control, including indefinite looping, loop pause, loop rewind, and loop reset.
• Persistent control of channel position and pan (even while sound is stopped).
• Volume fade in/out/to (SoundSkinFx class).
• Toggles for playback and mute.
• SoundSkin manages all Flash-native sound related components (Sound, SoundChannel, SoundTransform, etc). You can totally forget the nuances of all of those components!

Documentation is included in the download bundle.

NOTE: when loading sounds externally, make sure to encode your mp3 audio at a bitrate that is compatible with Flash Player 9. Some audio encoding will throw off timescale calculations.