Stop/mute playing music using JLayer

Question

i am using jlayer to play mp3 files in my progam but in the jlayer documentation i could not find any useful info about stopping the playing music and continuing from where it was stopped. any ideas?

my program is as follows:

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package sounds;

import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import javazoom.jl.player.Player;

/**
 * Wayne, K. (2005). How to Play an MP3 File in Java. 
 * Available: http://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/faq/mp3/mp3.html.
 * Last accessed 10th Mar 2011.
 * @author temelm
 */
public class MP3 {
  private String filename;
  private Player player;

  /**
   * MP3 constructor
   * @param filename name of input file
   */
  public MP3(String filename) {
    this.filename = filename;
  }

  /**
   * Creates a new Player
   */
  public void play() {
    try {
      FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(this.filename);
      BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(fis);

      this.player = new Player(bis);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        System.err.printf("%s\n", e.getMessage());
    }

    new Thread() {
      @Override
      public void run() {
        try {
          player.play();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.printf("%s\n", e.getMessage());
        }
      }
    }.start();
  }

  /**
   * Closes the Player
   */
  public void close() {
    if (this.player != null) {
      this.player.close();
    }
  }

  /////////////////////////

  /**
   * Plays '01 Maenam.mp3' in an infinite loop
   */
  public static void playMaenam() {
    MP3 mp3 = new MP3("./01 Maenam.mp3");

    mp3.play();

    while (true) {
      if (mp3.player.isComplete()) {
        mp3.close();
        mp3.play();
      }
    }
  }
}

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Answer 1

I get my mp3's from a fileInputStream. When I want to pause, I do (fis is the fileinputstream) fis.available() (or something similar). This gives how many bytes left in the stream... If you do this before it starts, you get the total length. So total left - amount currently left = Current position. Then i just create a new inputstream and do fis.skip(theamount); to resume.. Aweful method but yeah it works..