> Finally changing to 2.4 and 2.4.1, but am regretting it a bit. Audio
> and animation is an integral of my project. Here's the problem.
>
> I make use of a lot of short sound clips by changing the filename, eg.
>
> set the filename of player "sndeffect" to "sound1"
>
> But every other sound that is played the beginning of the sound clip is
> chopped off. This only happens with changes to the filename of the
> sound clip. If the Filename of the player was never changed the sound
> will be fine each time the Play or Start command is used. Only with
> changes to filename will this phenonemon occur. Buffering didn't help.
> Setting the filename to "empty" didn't help. This has to be a bug.
> I'm using a mac.

I’ve had big success on a Mac after putting a tiny wait command into my handler.

set the filename of player 1 to empty
  wait 5
set the filename of player 1 to ...