Safari: error decoding audio - undefined

[Felicia_Debye]

Hi,

if i run my game in safari the error “error decoding audio: undefined - null” occurs.
It uses WebAudio and i only work with .mp3-files. Every other browser doesn’t show this problem.

What could be the reason for that?

[BlunT76]

Hi,
Look this post:

Safari sets audio duration to Infinity

Hello, I have problem with Safari and audio. When my game start I can hear the sound so this is good (.mp3). I have and additional button that invokes audio replay of a word in another language. It works well on Chrome, FireFox etc. but on Safari the audio is played only once, and the duration of an audio is set to Infinity, isPaused to true. In this case I can not play it again cos it is suspended. It turns out Safari cannot see the proper duration of a track. Is there any solution to this?

[ogg_the_dog]

Bumping this topic - I have the exact same issue after upgrading Safari to v15.1 on macOS Catalina.

We’ve also tried the same Safari version (15.1) on a different Mac with the newest macOS installed (Monterey) and got some peculiar behaviour - at first few attempts the sound just shut off after a few seconds without any error in the console, with large delays in timed actions and responding to interactions (no other programs or tabs were running). On a different attempt the sound was working fine and things sped up to almost the normal speed.

Various other Safari+macOS/iOS combinations (e.g. Safari 13, Safari 14.8) and other browsers work just fine.

Anyone able to help with these mysterious Safari idiosyncracies?

[samme]

I have the same problem with Safari 15/Catalina. You can test on DecodeThis!.