Where's my Sound ???

Here's a Handy little tip I just figured out today. So I have a button that plays sound and once if finishes playing it should fire the Event.SOUND_COMPLETE. In this events handler, it resets the position back to the beginning of the clip. Now the problem is once I try to play it again, it doesn't seem to fire the Event.SOUND_COMPLETE event. Have you ever had the issue of your Event.SOUND_COMPLETE not firing properly?? Read on and find out why......

After some debugging, I noticed that every time you pause a sound and play it again, a new SoundChannel is returned. Any event listeners I had applied to the SoundChannel before are disregarded once I pause and play. Instead of :

function playSound():void
{
      mySound : Sound = new Sound();
      mySound.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, soundLoaded);
      mySound.load(MY SONG REQUEST);
}

function soundLoaded(e : Event):void
{
      myChannel = new SoundChannel();
      myChannel.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, soundComplete);
      myChannel = mySound.play();
}

function soundComplete(e : Event):void
{
      position = 0;
      playChannel()
      pauseChannel();
      myChannel.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, soundComplete);
}

function pauseChannel():void
{
     myChannel.stop();
     position = myChannel.position;
}

function playChannel():void
{
     myChannel =  mySound.play(position);
}

But It should be :

function playSound():void
{
      mySound : Sound = new Sound();
      mySound.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, soundLoaded);
      mySound.load(MY SONG REQUEST);
}

function soundLoaded(e : Event):void
{
      myChannel = new SoundChannel();
      myChannel.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, soundComplete);
      myChannel = mySound.play();
}

function soundComplete(e : Event):void
{
      position = 0;
      playChannel();
      pauseChannel();
}

function pauseChannel():void
{
     myChannel.stop();
     position = myChannel.position;
}

function playChannel():void
{
     myChannel =  mySound.play(position);
     myChannel.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, soundComplete);
}

You need to register the event listener again once you call play. I hope this saves 30 minutes of your day once you start screaming...WHERE'S MY SOUND!!!