Recipe 15.2. Starting and Stopping a Sound

Problem

You've created a Sound object and started streaming a sound file into it. Now you want to play it and eventually stop it.

Solution

Use the play( ) method to start the sound playing. Use the close( ) method to stop the sound from streaming.

Discussion

Playing a sound which has been loaded into a Sound object is very easy. Simply call the play( ) method of that Sound object, like so:

_sound = new Sound(new URLRequest("song.mp3"));
_sound.play(  );

It is that simple. There are some additional optional parameters to the play( ) method, which are covered in Recipes 15.1 and 15.10.

The close( ) method of the Sound object not only stops the sound from playing, but also stops the streaming of the sound file. To play that sound again, call the load( ) method to restart loading the sound data. The close( ) method should be called only when you are sure you are finished with that particular sound. Recipe 15.1 discusses a way to stop the sound from playing without stopping the stream, using the SoundChannel class.