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This is what works for me. Define Loaders in xml. Set autoPlay to false so we don't hear them play as soon as they are loaded ?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <data> <LoaderMax name="sampleQueue" load="true"> <MP3Loader url="H_Drums_AirVentOpen.mp3" name="H_Drums_AirVentOpen" autoPlay="false"/> <MP3Loader url="H_Drums_FuelCapOpen.mp3" name="H_Drums_FuelCapOpen" autoPlay="false"/> <MP3Loader url="H_Drums_HandbrakeOn.mp3" name="H_Drums_HandbrakeOn" autoPlay="false"/> <MP3Loader url="H_Drums_hi-hat.mp3" name="H_Drums_hi-hat" autoPlay="false"/> <MP3Loader url="H_Drums_kickdrum.mp3" name="H_Drums_kickdrum" autoPlay="false"/> <MP3Loader url="H_Drums_snare.mp3" name="H_Drums_snare" autoPlay="false"/> <MP3Loader url="H_Drums_Tap.mp3" name="H_Drums_Tap" autoPlay="false"/> <MP3Loader url="H_ClassicBass_01.mp3" name="H_ClassicBass_01" autoPlay="false"/> <MP3Loader url="H_ClassicBass_02.mp3" name="H_ClassicBass_02" autoPlay="false"/> <MP3Loader url="H_ClassicBass_03.mp3" name="H_ClassicBass_03" autoPlay="false"/> <MP3Loader url="H_ClassicBass_04.mp3" name="H_ClassicBass_04" autoPlay="false"/> <MP3Loader url="H_ClassicBass_05.mp3" name="H_ClassicBass_05" autoPlay="false"/> <MP3Loader url="H_ClassicBass_06.mp3" name="H_ClassicBass_06" autoPlay="false"/> <MP3Loader url="H_ClassicBass_07.mp3" name="H_ClassicBass_07" autoPlay="false"/> <MP3Loader url="H_ClassicBass_08.mp3" name="H_ClassicBass_08" autoPlay="false"/> <MP3Loader url="H_ClassicBass_09.mp3" name="H_ClassicBass_09" autoPlay="false"/> <MP3Loader url="H_ClassicBass_10.mp3" name="H_ClassicBass_10" autoPlay="false"/> <MP3Loader url="H_ClassicBass_11.mp3" name="H_ClassicBass_11" autoPlay="false"/> <MP3Loader url="H_ClassicBass_12.mp3" name="H_ClassicBass_12" autoPlay="false"/> <MP3Loader url="H_ClassicBass_13.mp3" name="H_ClassicBass_13" autoPlay="false"/> <MP3Loader url="H_ClassicBass_14.mp3" name="H_ClassicBass_14" autoPlay="false"/> <MP3Loader url="H_ClassicBass_15.mp3" name="H_ClassicBass_15" autoPlay="false"/> <MP3Loader url="H_ClassicBass_16.mp3" name="H_ClassicBass_16" autoPlay="false"/> </LoaderMax> </data> Load the XML with the MP3 loaders defined. I'm Using a couble of inner functions to keep tabs on progress, errrors etc public function loadStuff() : void { LoaderMax.activate([MP3Loader]); // only necessary once - allows XMLLoader to recognize MP3Loader's in the XML try { loader = new XMLLoader(_cs_samplesPath + "samples.xml", {prependURLs:_cs_samplesPath, onProgress:sampleLoadProgressHandler, onComplete:sampleLoadCompleteHandler, onError:sampleLoadErrorHandler, estimatedBytes:50000}); loader.load(); } catch(error : Error) { trace("Load Stuff has "); } function sampleLoadProgressHandler(event : LoaderEvent) : void { // trace("progress: " + event.target.progress); } function sampleLoadErrorHandler(event : LoaderEvent) : void { trace("error occured with " + event.target + ": " + event.text); } function sampleLoadCompleteHandler(event : LoaderEvent) : void { createSamples(); } } Once they are loaded I use their names from the XML and the content of the MP3Loader to do what I need private function createSamples() : void { var sampleXML : XML = loader.content; var sampleloaders : XMLList = sampleXML.child("LoaderMax").child("MP3Loader"); for (var i : int = 0; i < sampleloaders.length(); i++) { var sampleName : String = sampleloaders[i].@name; var voiceSound : Sound = LoaderMax.getContent(sampleName); var newPCMVoice : SiONVoice = new SiONVoice(); newPCMVoice.setPCMVoice(voiceSound); samplerVoices.push(newPCMVoice); samplerVoicesNames.push(String(i) + "-" + sampleName); } getStarted(); }