Can the flash player play .wav files from a url?

Question

Let\'s say I have a wav file at a url:

http://hostname.com/mysound.wav

I\'m trying to load the wav file with the sound class like:

Answer 1

Directly you cannot but there are workarounds thanks to the ByteArray ; )

Check this out :

http://richapps.de/?p=97

EDIT:

The previous link being a bit old I reckon you should also have a look on Andre and Joa's fabulous PopForge library. There's actually a wav decoder class there as well.

http://code.google.com/p/popforge/source/browse/#svn/trunk/flash/PopforgeLibrary/src/de/popforge/format/wav