See reply to link in this thread, you’re going to have to repro this because all tests I do are contrary to what you are saying. It can’t have suddenly stopped working because that stuff hasnt been touched in nearly a year or so. It works fine here.

Perhaps a better question is this. What I was trying to do was to store a pointer to the channel playing any given sound, and if that same sound was played again, it would stop that sound and would play it again from scratch.

So it’s a mix of wanting only 1 playing instance of a sound as well as forcing it to restart if the system attempts to play it again.

What about the callback? Where does this come into it?
All you have to do to make it re-use a channel for the same sound is pass the channel handle back into playsound and use FMOD_CHANNEL_REUSE.

That, or simply call channel->stop() then System::play and get the new channel handle, i don’t see what problem your having.