Safari and problem with sound

[flogvit]

I have a strange problem with the sound (tried Phaser 2.3.0 and Phaser 2.4.4)

 

I do the loading of sound in preloading as

this.load.audio('music', 'assets/music/freefreddy_mixdown.mp3');

and I start the sound with something like

game.music = game.add.audio('music', 1, true);game.music.play();

I also have sounds which should be played. This works fine in all other browsers than Safari.

 

But in Safari, it works strange

 

If I start a vanilla Safari and type in the url (web or localhost:9000) it will load the game, but in the resource tab in Safari debug it will not show any XHRs directory (which includes all the .mp3 files). Now it will not play any sounds. But if I do a refresh on the page (cmd-r or enter in url), it will load the XHRs and play the sounds fine.

 

I've tried the button approach where the splash screen, or the boot screen, have a button, but this doesn't work. Same problem with no XHRs directory in resources.

 

When I check the SoundManager, console.log(game.sound), I see a difference. With reload, I get

 

SoundManager._sounds[1].Sound.context[webkitudioContext].state = "running"

 

without the reload this is set to "suspended".

 

Anyone else seen this?

[flogvit]

Well, after struggling with this for a long time, and posted this question, I thought I should try to reload the SoundManager. It seems this works well. So now I do in boot:

init: {   this.game.sound.boot();}

and that starts the sound, even though it doesn't show the XHRs in the resource list.

 

btw, I need to wait until init in first state to do the boot, or else it doesn't work.

[flogvit]

Hm, still some problems using browsers on iPhone. So open for suggestions.

[brianautumn]

Hey Im getting similar problems, but with the sound manager unlocking webAudio. I tried reloading the sound manager like you posted, but no luck.

 

http://brianautumn.net/rockalingua_prototypes/skateboarding/

 

I cant get audio to play on mobile for the life of me

[Moña Games]

Did any of you manage to get the sound working? Brian, your online game sound is working on my ipad.

 

Thanks

[mstx]

On 8 January 2016 at 1:22 AM, flogvit said:

Well, after struggling with this for a long time, and posted this question, I thought I should try to reload the SoundManager. It seems this works well. So now I do in boot:

init: {   this.game.sound.boot();}

and that starts the sound, even though it doesn't show the XHRs in the resource list.

 

btw, I need to wait until init in first state to do the boot, or else it doesn't work.

I searched and tried everything, even tried to refresh page but nothing worked except this. Thank you!

By the way how it's possible that only we've encountered this problem? Even Rich didn't mention anything about that?? 

[micsun-al]

I'm getting this issue with the current build of Phaser.

* v2.6.2 "Kore Springs" - Built: Fri Aug 26 2016 01:02:57

[Befive.Info]

Thanks a lot. I just noticed that I had the same problem. The 1st load of the game on local server prevents the game from playing any sound at all when I open the game in the Desktop Safari browser (Version 9.1.3) on El Capitan (OSX 10.11.6). It plays normally only after I hit the reload button of the browser.

I am using Phaser v2.6.1 for my game.

game.sound.boot(); right after a loop for load.audio() sorted out. My game is playing sound normally from the 1st loading.