Pause Streaming Audio

I'm trying to pause streaming audio with a "pause" button.
However, when I click the "play" button, the audio begins a few
seconds after where it stopped.
My theory is that the "pause" button isn't recording where
the audio stopped playing; it's actually recording where the audio
stopped loading. So if ten seconds of audio has played, but twenty
seconds of audio has loaded, the "pause" button will record the
pause position as twenty seconds, and the play button will start
the audio at twenty seconds.
Does that sound like a reasonable theory? Does anyone know
how this might be fixed?
Here's my code:

Looks like my theory was wrong! When I hit the "pause"
button, it records a number that corresponds to a point in the
audio stream, but that number does not correspond to the point at
which the audio stream was paused -- it's somewhere between two to
five seconds later. I have no explanation as to why this is!
So I guess my revised question is: has *anyone* been able to
get the "pause" and "play" buttons to work properly with
*streaming* audio? I've come across some comments that suggest that
it might not be possible, but I've never seen it explicitly stated
that it's not possible.
In other words: should I give up?

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