[Openal] alRewind on a Looping Source

[Chris Robinson]

On Monday, June 07, 2010 5:40:13 pm Jason Daly wrote:
> I thing 1 was the original intent (setting the source to STOPPED first
> kind of implies this).
> 
> alSourceRewind() never seemed to have much use, even early on.

I would think 1, too, because calling alSourceRewind on a non-looping source 
that's in the middle of play won't rewind and continue playing. I tend to 
think of it as rewinding the play state back to AL_INITIAL, not rewinding the 
play offset to 0 (which just happens as a side effect of stopping).

FWIW, I tend to treat alSourceRewind as just like alSourceStop, except it puts 
the source into an AL_INITIAL state instead of AL_STOPPED (which can be a 
useful distinction, sometimes), and it sets 0 buffers processed instead of the 
whole queue. A "rewind and continue play" action can be accomplished by simply 
setting the source offset to 0.