From: "Edmund Horner" <ejrh AT paradise DOT net DOT nz>
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Subject: Allegro sample playing
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Hello.

I am using the simplest Allegro sound functions, namely, play_sample().
However since I playing lots of samples all the time (for a game), I'd like
to only play the sample if it's not already playing.  How can I most
efficiently (for me, not the computer) achieve this?

Edmund.