How to pause (and resume) music in Scratch
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In Scratch, there's a block that can stop all sounds, but how do you pause a sound or music and then resume playing where it left off? If you divide negative one by zero, you get Negative Infinity. If we put that inside of a "set pitch" block, it will slow it down so much that it's basically pausing the sound. However, you'll hear a really low sound slowly playing.
So, we also want to set the volume to zero when we pause. To unpause, we first check if our volume is set to zero. If it is, we will reset the pitch effect to zero and the volume to something like 100 when clicked, so we can resume the music. Now, we simply put our pause code in the "else" part of the conditional to run this code if our volume is not equal to zero. This button will now pause and resume the music when clicked.
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