IOS15 sounds stop playing but no errors reports

[rjsheldon]

The Problem

At any point, the sounds on mobile ios15 stop working. The context says it is playing, there's no errors reported but the sounds are all inaudible. Furthermore, new sounds dont play

Reproducible Example

No response

Reproduction Steps

just play sounds for a minute or so on a mobile and then they just stop!

Possible Solution

No response

Context

Trying to write a game with multiple m4a files. Tried using an audiosprite but now loading and playing files one at a time but makes no difference

Howler.js Version

2.2.3

Affected Browser(s)/Versiuon(s)

safari

[SalmanMalyk]

It's also happening on my site too

[SwenRanj]

Hi, we are also experiencing this issue on a website that uses canvas and sounds.

We were actually using SoundJS when this issue surfaced for us. As we were exploring the issue we also tried HowlerJS to see if the same issue shows up. We also tried using 'vanilla' HTML audio element, but same issue.

For us, sound is playing correctly, but after a certain time it 'just' stops outputting sound. Audio seems to be playing correctly under the hood, but no sound is outputted. The issue seems to surface when the website is under heavy load (a lot of canvas drawing) or just after a certain time being on the same website page (mostly after a minute).

Any findings? Ideas?

[rjsheldon]

yes, its definitely NOT a howler issue as such. Its the canvas issue on ios 15.X . I tried the latest ios15.6 and its the same.

I reduced the load on the canvas by reducing the number of animations on screen and it all works fine now .

Also, if you change from canvas to WebGL that also fixes it.

On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 at 10:12, Swen @.***> wrote:

Hi, we are also experiencing this issue on a website that uses canvas and sounds.

We were actually using SoundJS https://www.createjs.com/soundjs when this issue surfaced for us. As we were exploring the issue we also tried HowlerJS to see if the same issue shows up. We also tried using 'vanilla' HTML audio element, but same issue.

For us, sound is playing correctly, but after a certain time it 'just' stops outputting sound. Audio seems to be playing correctly under the hood, but no sound is outputted. The issue seems to surface when the website is under heavy load (a lot of canvas drawing) or just after a certain time being on the same website page (mostly after a minute).

Any findings? Ideas?

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[The-Linguist]

It looks like we have to wait for Safari 17.0 or 18.0 and just hope that engineers who work for Apple care.

[The-Linguist]

By the way, according to my tests, Safaris on different iPads are like different cousin Safaris responding differently.