MultiLoader can load in images, text, XML, sounds and videos in a consistent way, and allows you to manage the loading in a number of ways.  It has pretty extensive functionality – including, among other things:

• Simple to use
• Allows prioritising of items
• Force immediate load of an item
• Connection pooling
• Many debugging and error handling options
• A debugging profiler
• Queue management
• Methods for extracting assets from the Flash library

It’s based on BulkLoader so it shares most of  its features, however there are some big improvements. Some of them: the profiler (gives you a running graphical display of what’s going on) and the report (gives you a pretty print summary trace of what’s going on at that point, ie details of all the loaded items, all the pending items, all the failed items and so on).