getting variables from a loaded movie

I'm trying to create an audio player....I have the player in one movie and the music is loaded in as a swf is it possible to set a variable in the music file and have the player pull that out of the loaded movie? I load the music into an empty clip named "music"

I tried this

message.text = _root.music.frames;

but it doesn't work, I can pass a value into the main timeline but, I want to get it out of the music movie....how do I do this?

Okay, you have it completly reversed! On the main timeline, every time you load a new movie, just say:
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