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Playing OGG files crashes in WASM on Safari/iOS
Playing an OGG file crashes in Safari on Mac. It seems to be the same issue for iOS, as nothing happens, but I haven't checked the console. It works fine in Firefox and Chrome on Mac, as well as natively on Mac.
Browser: Safari Version 16.1 (18614.2.9.1.12) OS: MacOS 13.0.1 (22A400) Ventura CPU: Apple M1 Max
Macroquad: 0.3.25 quad-snd: 0.2.5
Error message from javascript console in Safari:
[Error] Failed to decode audio buffer – null
(anonymous function) (mq_js_bundle.js:1532)
[Error] Unhandled Promise Rejection: EncodingError: Decoding failed
(anonymous function)
rejectPromise
I've made a minimal example, which is basically just loading the test.ogg file from the quad-snd repo and playing it.
#[macroquad::main("Safari sound issue")]
async fn main() {
let sound = load_sound("assets/test.ogg").await.unwrap();
play_sound(
sound,
PlaySoundParams {
looped: true,
volume: 1.,
},
);
loop {
next_frame().await;
}
}
Full example with compiled WASM demo: https://github.com/ollej/macroquad-safarisoundissue
yes, macroquad on web is just feeding the whole file to the browser instead of parsing it, therefore if the browser does not support ogg - this is not going to work :(
not sure what the correct fix would be here
Possibly a more informative error message and/or a note in the docs. I'm fine with just closing the issue as well.
I thought about writing a js function that detects the browser and chooses file type based on that. But for now, converting to WAV seemed good enough.
I think ogg support will not come to Safari. The issue is opened since at least 2014. So we should use another format for all browsers or detect safari and have a fallback audio format for safari users.
Looks like ogg support finally shipped 2 weeks ago in Safari 18.4, but https://caniuse.com/ogg-vorbis says about 14% of users (between desktop and iOS Safari) are still on old versions that don't support ogg.
Maybe in a year or so we can have nice things.
