# Play, pause, stop

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/play-pause-stop/90961>\
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**Created:** [March 16, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/play-pause-stop/90961 "2003-03-16T01:48:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@nobody](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nobody)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/play-pause-stop/90961/1 "2003-03-16T01:48:35Z")

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Hi, this is probably a dumb question as always, and I did search for it this time, but couldn’t find what i was looking for

I took the tutorial on playing a sound file, but I want to know how to pause it, and stop it, eventually i want to do next and previous song buttons, but im not worried about those 2 for now.

This is the code I have  
[AS]on (release) {  
Finchsound = new Sound(this);  
Finchsound.attachSound(“Finch3”);  
Finchsound.start(0, 99);  
}[/AS]

Finchsound.pause doesnt exist, so what would i use as an alternative, and also finchsound.stop didnt work

finally, if you click play multiple times it just plays the song again, so you have a ton of overlapping songs.

any help would be great

thanks a lot