Stopping _SNDPLAYCOPY ?Possible?

[TerryRitchie]

I think _SNDSTOPCOPIES may be a good idea. A fair amount of complexity is involved in getting this done on the BASIC side using arrays, _SNDCOPY & _SNDCLOSE. There is no way to stop and dispose of copies until it finishes playing. Also, the C++ side implementation is trivial.

Maybe we can have this in 3.15 when we make more audio-specific improvements.

Instead of a new command, might I suggest a tweaking of the existing commands?

_SNDSTOP handle, (flags$)

Where the optional flag$ would be 
"ONLY" <-- this only stops the original
"COPIES"   <--- this would stop the original and any _SNDPLAYCOPY
"ALL"  <-- this would stop the original and and copies.

Would save creating another sound related keyword for folks to have to chug through and remember, when there's already a boatload of them out there.  Usage would be similar to:

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DIM AS LONG h, i

h = _SNDOPEN("explosion.wav")
_SNDPLAY h
_SNDPLAYCOPY h
_SNDPLAYCOPY h
_SNDPLAYCOPY h

_SNDSTOP h, "ONLY"   <-- to stop the _SNDPLAY with the original
_SNDSTOP h, "COPIES" <-- to stop all copies using that original handle
_SNDSTOP h, "BOTH"  <--- to stop both at once

That's a good solution. The second parameter would need to be optional however to avoid breaking existing code that currently uses _SNDSTOP.