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Pausing Audio with Pulsar

With Pulsar 2, you're now able to pause live radio. Pausing playback builds up a history of up to 3 hours of audio. You can stop playback in the middle of a song to take a phone call or step away, then pick right back up when you return. Even better, build up a buffer of audio, then skip songs you don't want to hear.

Pausing



Pulsar's playing audio

When Pulsar is playing audio, you'll see a status area similar to what's above. There's a Pause button on the far left, as well as the buffer shown in the LCD. The time bubble (currently reading 47:36) shows how far into the buffer playback is. By default, this will be at the right end, representing real-time.

To pause audio, just click the Pause button, or press the spacebar on your keyboard.


Pulsar, paused

When paused, Pulsar will look like this. The Pause button has toggled to a Play button. Clicking it will cause audio to begin playing again. The time indicator in the buffer has also begun to move backwards, as new audio fills in ahead of the paused point.

You can navigate through the buffer in several ways:

Pressing the left or right arrow keys (← and →) will Jump Back or Jump Forward 10 seconds. Holding the Shift key while pressing the arrow keys will change these jumps to 60 seconds.

The Previous Song and Next Song commands, accessible via Command-[ and Command-], attempt to get you to the previous or next song. This is done by looking at the track title data provided by Sirius or XM. Because this data is not always perfectly aligned with a song switching, you may need to combine these commands with the Jump commands (above) to get to the exact right point.

The Jump to Live command, activated with Command-L, will restart live playback, by jumping to the end of the pause buffer.

Finally, you can click anywhere in the buffer to jump to that location, or click and drag the indicator to move to a specific time.

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