HTML5 Audio stop function

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I am playing a small audio clip on click of each link in my navigation  HTML Code    lt audio tabindex  0  id  beep-one  controls preload  auto   gt       lt source src  audio Output 1-2 mp3  gt       lt source src  audio Output 1-2 ogg  gt   lt  audio gt    JS code       links a   click function e        e preventDefault        var beepOne       beep-one   0       beepOne play          It s working fine so far   Issue is when a sound clip is already running and i click on any link nothing happens   I tried to stop the already playing sound on click of link  but there is no direct event for that in HTML5 s Audio API  I tried following code but it s not working    each    audio    function            this  stop          Any suggestions please

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I was having same issue  A stop should stop the stream and onplay go to live if it is a radio  All solutions I saw had a disadvantage    player currentTime   0 keeps downloading the stream  player src       raise error event   My solution   var player   document getElementById  radio    player pause    player src   player src    And the HTML   lt audio src  http   radio-stream  id  radio  class  hidden  preload  none  gt  lt  audio gt

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Here is my way of doing stop   method   Somewhere in code   audioCh1  document createElement  audio      and then in stop     this audioCh1 pause   this audioCh1 src    data audio wav base64 UklGRiQAAABXQVZFZm10IBAAAAABAAEAVFYAAFRWAAABAAgAZGF0YQAAAAA      In this way we don t produce additional request  the old one is cancelled and our audio element is in clean state  tested in Chrome and FF

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for me that code working fine   IE10    var Wmp   document getElementById  MediaPlayer                        Wmp controls stop      lt object classid  clsid 6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6      standby  Loading   udio     style  width  100   height  170px  id  MediaPlayer  gt       Hope this help

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This approach is  brute force   but it works assuming using jQuery is  allowed    Surround your  player   lt audio gt  lt  audio gt  tags with a div  here with an id of  plHolder      lt div id  plHolder  gt        lt audio controls id  player  gt                 lt  audio gt   lt div gt    Then this javascript should work   function stopAudio         var savePlayer       plHolder   html       Save player code         player   remove       Remove player from DOM         FlHolder   html savePlayer      Restore it

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The simple way to get around this error is to catch the error   audioElement play   returns a promise  so the following code with a  catch   should suffice manage this issue    x000D   x000D  function playSound sound    x000D    sfx pause    x000D    sfx currentTime   0  x000D    sfx src   sound  x000D    sfx play   catch e   gt  e   x000D    x000D   x000D   x000D    Note  You may want to replace the arrow function with an anonymous function for backward compatibility

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Instead of stop   you could try with   sound pause    sound currentTime   0    This should have the desired effect

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It don t work sometimes in chrome   sound pause    sound currentTime   0    just change like that   sound currentTime   0  sound pause

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From my own javascript function to toggle Play Pause - since I m handling a radio stream  I wanted it to clear the buffer so that the listener does not end up coming out of sync with the radio station   function playStream              var player   document getElementById  player              player paused    true    toggle 0    toggle 1       function toggle state             var player   document getElementById  player            var link   document getElementById  radio-link            var src    http   192 81 248 91 8159              switch state                    case 0                          player src   src                          player load                            player play                            link innerHTML    Pause                           player state   1                          break                  case 1                          player pause                            player currentTime   0                          player src                               link innerHTML    Play                           player state   0                          break                Turns out  just clearing the currentTime doesn t cut it under Chrome  needed to clear the source too and load it back in  Hope this helps

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As a side note and because I was recently using the stop method provided in the accepted answer  according to this link   https   developer mozilla org en-US docs Web Guide Events Media events  by setting currentTime manually one may fire the  canplaythrough  event on the audio element  In the link it mentions Firefox  but I encountered this event firing after setting currentTime manually on Chrome  So if you have behavior attached to this event you might end up in an audio loop

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shamangeorge wrote       by setting currentTime manually one may fire the  canplaythrough  event on the audio element    This is indeed what will happen  and pausing will also trigger the pause event  both of which make this technique unsuitable for use as a  stop  method  Moreover  setting the src as suggested by zaki will make the player try to load the current page s URL as a media file  and fail  if autoplay is enabled - setting src to null is not allowed  it will always be treated as a URL  Short of destroying the player object there seems to be no good way of providing a  stop  method  so I would suggest just dropping the dedicated stop button and providing pause and skip back buttons instead - a stop button wouldn t really add any functionality

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In IE 11 I used combined variant  player currentTime   0   player pause     player currentTime   0   Only 2 times repeat prevents IE from continuing loading media stream after pause   and flooding a disk by that

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What I like to do is completely remove the control using Angular2 then it s reloaded when the next song has an audio path    lt audio id  audioplayer   ngIf  song  audio path  gt    Then when I want to unload it in code I do this   this song   Object assign    this song  audio path  null      When the next song is assigned  the control gets completely recreated from scratch   this song   this songOnDeck

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first you have to set an id for your audio element  in your js    var ply   document getElementById  player     var oldSrc   ply src    just to remember the old source  ply src         to stop the player you have to replace the source with nothing

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This method works   audio pause    audio currentTime   0    But if you don t want to have to write these two lines of code every time you stop an audio you could do one of two things  The second I think is the more appropriate one and I m not sure why the  gods of javascript standards  have not made this standard   First method  create a function and pass the audio  function stopAudio audio        audio pause        audio currentTime   0       then using it  stopAudio audio     Second method  favoured   extend the Audio class   Audio prototype stop   function         this pause        this currentTime   0       I have this in a javascript file I called  AudioPlus js  which I include in my html before any script that will be dealing with audio   Then you can call the stop function on audio objects   audio stop      FINALLY CHROME ISSUE WITH  canplaythrough    I have not tested this in all browsers but this is a problem I came across in Chrome  If you try to set currentTime on an audio that has a  canplaythrough  event listener attached to it then you will trigger that event again which can lead to undesirable results   So the solution  similar to all cases when you have attached an event listener that you really want to make sure it is not triggered again  is to remove the event listener after the first call  Something like this     note using jquery to attach the event  You can use plain javascript as well of course    audio  on  canplaythrough   function           this  off  canplaythrough            rest of the code           BONUS   Note that you can add even more custom methods to the Audio class  or any native javascript class for that matter    For example if you wanted a  restart  method that restarted the audio it could look something like   Audio prototype restart  function         this pause        this currentTime   0      this play

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I believe it would be good to check if the audio is playing state and reset the currentTime property   if  sound currentTime     0  amp  amp   sound currentTime  gt  0  amp  amp  sound currentTime  lt  sound duration        sound currentTime   0    sound play

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