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Ghoul Fool
Ghoul Fool

Reputation: 6967

Javascript audio not working in Firefox (x-unknown/unknown)

The following JavaScript running in canvas should play audio fine:

var audio = new Audio('tune.wav');
audio.play();

Most of the time it does work, the wav is 24bit 14100kbps and plays fine on several machines, but on my laptop (Win7, using Firefox 22.0) I get the error:

I'm aware that there are other libraries to play sound, but I want to keep this pure JavaScript and since it works fine on other machines it might be a hardware problem. But I am able to play other audio files fine, so I'm not sure what's going wrong here. Any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2040

Answers (1)

MST
MST

Reputation: 689

Hmm. Based upon my experience with the JS Audio elements, you're missing a line.

var audio = new Audio('tune.wav');
audio.load();
audio.play();

I don't think that's causing the error though. Based upon the responses to this question:

Firefox won't play .WAV files using the HTML5 <audio> tag?

and the back-and-forth in this forum: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524109 (comment 7)

It looks like Firefox simply doesn't support 24-bit WAVE files. 16-bit is probably a safer option.

Upvotes: 2

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