AS3 sound pause/play buttons not working

Question

I have three buttons:play_btn, pause_btn; and stop_btn within a movie clip labeled controller.
I can't make the play button start where the pause button is left. Everytime, the sounds starts from the beginning.
Please help!
var mySoundReq65:URLRequest = new URLRequest("sounds/pronouns.mp3");
var mySound65:Sound = new Sound();
var mySoundChannel65:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();
var lastPosition:uint= 0;
var isPlaying:Boolean = new Boolean();
var isPaused:Boolean= new Boolean();
mySound65.load(mySoundReq65);
controller.play_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent. CLICK, playSound);
controller.pause_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent. CLICK, pauseSound);
controller.stop_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent. CLICK, stopSound);
// play sound
function playSound(event:MouseEvent): void{
if(!isPlaying){
mySoundChannel65 = mySound65.play();
if(isPaused) {
lastPosition=Math.floor(mySoundChannel65.position);
mySoundChannel65 = mySound65.play(lastPosition);
isPlaying=true;
// pause sound
function pauseSound(event:MouseEvent): void{
if(isPlaying)
lastPosition=Math.floor(mySoundChannel65.position);
mySoundChannel65.stop();
isPlaying=false;
isPaused=false;
else if (isPaused){
mySoundChannel65=mySound65.play();
isPlaying=true;
isPaused=false;
// stop sound
function stopSound(event:MouseEvent): void{
SoundMixer.stopAll();
lastPosition=0;
mySoundChannel65.stop();
isPlaying=false;
Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

Kglad:
Thanks for replying again. I fixed my script and it's working fine now. The final script is as follows:
var mySound65:Sound = new Sound();
var mySoundChannel65:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();
var lastPosition:Number= 0;
mySound65.load(new URLRequest("sounds/pronouns.mp3"));
var isPlaying:Boolean = new Boolean();
controller.play_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent. CLICK, playSound);
controller.pause_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent. CLICK, pauseSound);
controller.stop_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent. CLICK, stopSound);
// play sound
function playSound(event:MouseEvent): void{
if(!isPlaying){
mySoundChannel65 = mySound65.play();
isPlaying=true;
if(lastPosition>0) {
mySoundChannel65 = mySound65.play(lastPosition);
controller.play_btn.visible=false;
controller.pause_btn.visible=true;
// pause sound
function pauseSound(event:MouseEvent): void{
lastPosition = mySoundChannel65.position;
mySoundChannel65.stop();
controller.play_btn.visible=true;
controller.pause_btn.visible=false;
// stop sound
function stopSound(event:MouseEvent): void{
SoundMixer.stopAll();
lastPosition=0;
mySoundChannel65.stop();
isPlaying=false;
controller.play_btn.visible=true;
I added a couple of things:
a) To avoid clicking the same button more than once, I made either pause or play button invisible.
b) The solution was to include the following conditional in the play button:
if(lastPosition>0) {
mySoundChannel65 = mySound65.play(lastPosition);
Thanks again!