clearMedia makes extraneous HTTP request about jplayer HOT 4 CLOSED

In jPlayer 2.1.0 the internal clearMedia operation was removed from the setMedia command. Changing the media no longer calls clearMedia beforehand... That is unless you are doing it in your external code for some reason.

To change to new media, all you need to use is the setMedia command.

clearMedia is only really useful if you want to stop a radio stream URL from downloading for ever... For example, the user paused the radio, but the page keeps buffering it ready for you to press play again. Somewhere in there, like on the stop button, you could hook the clearMedia command to stop the stream. (You'd then need a way of staring it again of course.)

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On our site, we maintain a pool of jPlayer instances and when we return an instance to the pool, explicitly call "clearMedia" in order to ensure that any audio on that player is fully stopped, removed, and cleared from memory.

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I have the same problem and your fix #56 works quite well.
Thank you Marc.

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Thanks @marcn I'll add that change. Right now... Since I appear to have missed this solution during one of my work marathons.

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