Check if sound is playing

Question

I want to discover if a sound object (e.g. 'myMusic') is
playing. I've tried the code at the bottom of this post:-
My idea was to call a function that checked the sound's
position twice and compared the two values. If they were different,
then the sound is playing. However it seems that interrogating with
'.position' doesn't give 2 separate values if done in quick
succession.
I basically want a return value that tells me if a sound is
playing or not.
Can anyone help please

Answer 1

Thanks for your help Noel,
The problem I'm having is I need my code to decide, almost
instantly, if a sound needs to be played or not. (within
milliseconds, not 2 seconds unfortunately)
It seems that a sound that's 10,000 milliseconds long will
have a position value of 0 before it's played and a value of 10,000
when it has finished. However if the sound was stopped somewhere in
the middle, the position value freezes at the point it was when the
sound stopped.
Later in the code, I want to start that sound again if the
sound isn't playing, but if it already is, then I don't want to
start it.
I can write an if statement to see if the sound hasn't been
played (mySound.position==0) or if it has reached the end
(mySound.position==mySound.duration) but if it was stopped mid flow
(so to speak) and the position value is 3045, for example, I can't
find a way of telling if the sound was stopped at 3045
milliseconds, or if it is currently playing and just happens to be
at 3045 ms.
I thought by checking the position at two separate intervals
(of a playing sound), then a few milliseconds will have lapsed
between statements and the values would be different. Unfortunately
they were exactly the same. :( So a playing sound would give the
same result as a stopped sound. I could put a delay in between the
two readings, but that would slow my animation down too much.
I've got over the problem by using boolean variables for each
sound that get set to 'True' when a sound is started, get set to
'False' using an .onSoundComplete command, or get set to 'False' if
the sound is stopped mid flow.
It's a bit of a clumsy way of doing it, but it seems to work
and it makes my if Statement a bit easier.
If someone else has a better way, then I'd be over the moon
to learn
Many thanks