No audio plays in Orion

sylvain

I tried to access the Building Blocks (1 and 2 present the same issue) tool on this website: https://learn.audiblegenius.com

You can try without an account and see that if you launch a lesson (https://learn.audiblegenius.com/course/bb1/section_1/drums_1/earned) the video (labelled 'demonstration') has sound but not the tool itself (you need to press the 'Challenge' button up top and then 'start').

I tried from a new clean Orion profile and in compatibility mode but sadly it did not fix the issue.
This website works properly in Safari.

There should be a sound played when in the tool with the track running, you can see in the video uploaded that it works fine in Safari but not in Orion.

0.99.135.0.1-beta (WebKit 622.1.15.19.2)

Sequoia (15)

iAmGonz

Some issue here with https://www.songsterr.com on a clean installation of Orion no extensions. Also happens in other tab/guitar sites.
Safari and other browsers play ok.

t_bone_malone

I can confirm this is a bug for me in both Orion and Orion RC on macOS. Using version 0.99.135.2-rc. No audio on chess.com

PolyLearner

Same thing happening for me on Google Translate (and chess.com and lichess.org).

laiz

Hey everyone,
This bug is related to the WebKit version Orion currently ships with. The unfortunate news is that the next release (Orion 0.99.136-beta) is scheduled for this week after extensive testing, and it still uses the same version of WebKit as the current version. You can expect to see this fixed in 137-beta; more details will be shared as that release approaches.

Our contributors and Orion+ subscribers can expect to see a new version of WebKit land in their RC builds sooner than that. Stay tuned.

arjan

On Orion 0.99.136-RC

open https://strudel.cc
press option-enter or click play
sound should come out, but does not.

The sound icon does appear in the menu bar.

It does work on iPad OS 18.6.2 with the RC

App version: 1.3.27 (7) (WebKit 8621.3.11.10.3)
System version: 18.6.2
Device type: ?unrecognized?
Native bounds: (1668.0, 2420.0)
Scale: 2.0
Regular tabs: 18/about:blank
Private tabs: 0/(

I expected sound to play from the website, but no sound played.

rsion 0.99.136-rc (WebKit 622.1.15.19.2)

Sequoia (15)

jducoeur

myNoise is one of my very favorite websites: an in-browser mixer that produces a wide variety of background sounds procedurally -- https://mynoise.net

But for a while now, it's been Just Plain Broken in Orion. On two different laptops, it simply produces no sound. Other websites can produce sound in Orion, and myNoise works fine in other browsers (both Chrome and Safari).

I expect to get sounds, same as I do in, eg, Chrome.

Version 0.99.135.0.1-beta (WebKit 622.1.15.19.2)

Sequoia (15)

Sophia

Not sure why I can't get sound to work in compatibility mode for sketches that use the p5 sound library. These work in Safari, but not Orion:

Example on CodePen:
Example: https://melodecho.com

Expected sound to play once the user clicks on the page or buttons that start sound.

Version 0.99.136-beta (WebKit 622.1.15.19.2)

Tahoe (26)

binury

Audio playback on Strudel.cc works fine in desktop Safari but not in Orion. There are no errors generated but the audio itself is unaudible in Orion— the tab audio indicator is shown, even.

Enabling compatibility mode does not alleviate the issue

My expectation would be a near-identical compatibility/experience considering the browser engine is the same (apart from slight version differences)

Version 0.99.136-beta (WebKit 622.1.15.19.2)

Tahoe (26)

laiz

binury
Hey! I merged your bug report with a similar one.
This issue is caused by the WebKit version Orion 136-beta uses and it will be fixed in the next release. Hopefully we aren't too far off that release!

erj3517

If I navigate to a youtube video like and click play, then the sound plays fine. But if I navigate to a google translation like https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=da&text=Kangaroo%0A&op=translate and click the "Listen" button (the little speaker icon) the icon changes for a second or two as if sound were playing but I nothing is audible. The listen function works as expected in Safari.

I only see this on the desktop - in Orion for iOS the sound renders fine.

I expect to hear the sound play.

Version 0.99.136-beta (WebKit 622.1.15.19.2)

Tahoe (26)

laiz

erj3517
Hey! I merged your bug report with a similar one.
This issue is caused by the WebKit version Orion 136-beta uses and it will be fixed in the next release. Hopefully we aren't too far off that release!

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