html5 starts with music muted

[yanargyr]

When I export my game in html5, and when launching the game, there is no sound at all. If I hit the '+' button once, or the '0' button twice, the sounds are getting enabled. It looks like the html5 target always launches on mute, and the user needs to unmute manually.
It happens with any browser I've tried, and it only happens in html5 (was never a problem with cpp or mac)

I have even tried force unmutting on init like this :

 #if web
            FlxG.sound.muted = false;
            FlxG.sound.volume = 0.5;
        #end

But it still doesn't work

Is this normal behaviour, or something that you've seen before? Could it be a project setting I might have missed?
I am using HaxeFlixel 5.2.2

[Geokureli]

this is based on browser behavior and it's different for various browsers and also may depend on your specific browser's settings. Usually you need to click the game in order for sounds to be allowed to play, we don't really have control over this as it's a security feature

[yanargyr]

I reproduced the behavior with firefox and chrome
Thanks for the suggestions

[Geokureli]

you reproduced the stacked sound issue on those? interesting, can you share any relevant code? specifically interested in how you play the sound, when you play it, whether you're using FLX_NO_FOCUS_LOST_SCREEN or FlxG.autoPause or if you're listening for focus events anywhere

[yanargyr]

@Geokureli
I've created a simplified version for you here : https://github.com/yanargyr/FlixelWebSoundBugDemo

I think the file size might be a factor, as I was using a 15 MB file in my case

If you hit the +/- buttons, the music for some reason starts properly and will not stack.
But if you refresh, and instead of playing with the volume keys, you pause/unpause, the music will start playing. If you pause/resume again, you will get a second music channel added. Not quite sure it is actually adding a new music object each time, maybe it's just two.

If you want to repro with my actual game, you can also try here: https://yanargyr.github.io/ (that's before my workaround)

Hope that helps, and thanks again

[Geokureli]

I'll look into this today, thanks

[yanargyr]

Just in case that helps, I suspect that the music is initialised correctly if a sound plays first (SoundFrontEnd#play before SoundFrontEnd#playMusic). Hitting the +/- keys does make a sound effect