GaugeField progress forward and rewind when playing audio? - blackberry

I'm developing a player Application which plays audio for some fixed time. I need to use Gaugefield such that it should fast-forward and rewind the Audio that is currently Playing.
I am able to get the time from the player and displaying on the screen. I need to update the time when the progress of Gaugefield is increased or decreased and at the same time I need to stream the player according to the level of the Gaugefield.
I used the sample code below but it is not working.
Player.stop();
Player.setMediaTime();
Player.start();
I am working on 6.0 OS.

Are you implementing a PlayerListener? If you implement PlayerListener, then you can use the playerUpdate() method to update your GaugeField.

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