Phaser/CocoonJS Audio problems (with Fix)

[haden]

While trying to get our last game Fip to run on CocoonJS launcher, we noticed that the sound wasn't playing at all. After much investigation we were able to make it play but after making some changes to Phaser (dev branch).

 

The first problem encountered was in Sound.js, inside update() function here:

if (this.game.cache.getSound(this.key) && this.game.cache.getSound(this.key).locked){  // console.log('tried playing locked sound, pending set, reload started');  this.game.cache.reloadSound(this.key);  this.pendingPlayback = true;}

the ".locked" attribute was "undefined" so the sound never reloads. So our first change was inside Cache.js/addSound(), changing this:

this._sounds[key] = { url: url, data: data, isDecoding: false, decoded: decoded, webAudio: webAudio, audioTag: audioTag };

with this one:

this._sounds[key] = { url: url, data: data, isDecoding: false, decoded: decoded, webAudio: webAudio, audioTag: audioTag, locked: this.game.sound.touchLocked };

The second problem was in Sound.js/update() at the following line:

if (this._sound && this._sound.readyState == 4)

the attribute "readyState" is undefined. Changing the previous test to the following fixes the problem:

if (this._sound && (this.game.device.cocoonJS || this._sound.readyState == 4))

Now the game plays sounds nicely inside CocoonJS launcher

 

Please note, that we didn't try yet to play audiosprites, but just regular sound files (a music actually).

[woratana]

Hello,

 

Thank you for sharing!

This is a little off-topic. But do you find it hard to get the game shows correctly in cocoonjs?

I tried using the cocoonjs app to load my game, but the game seems to be a lot off-screen happened. :/

[haden]

About game scaling, I used the code of the following post, which worked perfectly:

 

http://www.html5gamedevs.com/topic/2273-phaser-cocoonjs-vs-webgl-scaling-finally-solved/?p=15265

[rich]

Thanks for this haden - both of your fixes are now merged with 1.1.4-dev.

[korgoth]

Does Phaser support Cocoonjs Multichannel Sound feature? If i know right its some kind of webaudio api but game.device.webAudio returns false.

[toto88x]

Thanks for this haden - both of your fixes are now merged with 1.1.4-dev.

 

So does the new Phaser 1.1.4 is supposed to have sound working with cocoonJS?

[rich]

I don't use Cocoon so I don't know, but I merged hadens fixes (and he uses it) so I can only assume so.

[i_want_to_make_games]

So does the new Phaser 1.1.4 is supposed to have sound working with cocoonJS?

No, it still doesn't work. Will try now the fixes above.

 

Edit: Nop, doesn't work...

[i_want_to_make_games]

I don't use Cocoon so I don't know, but I merged hadens fixes (and he uses it) so I can only assume so.

What do you use to convert application written in Phaser to android app?

[rich]

Nothing. I don't make native apps.

[i_want_to_make_games]

Nothing. I don't make native apps.

Well, it was my fault for not researching frameworks more.

[rich]

Doesn't mean it can't be done - there are a number of Phaser games in app stores. I just personally don't do it. If a native app is your end target platform (i.e. you don't need to publish to the web as well) then I would use a language/framework designed specifically for that (Unity, Corona, AIR, etc).

[Hsaka]

Hi, I can confirm that sound in Phaser 1.1.4 works in CocoonJS. See here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gamepyong.joggle&hl=en

[toto88x]

Hi, I can confirm that sound in Phaser 1.1.4 works in CocoonJS. See here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gamepyong.joggle&hl=en

 

 

 

Did you do anything specific to make the music work? Or just something like "game.add.audio('sound').play('', 0, 0.5, false);" ?

What was the file format of the music? mp3? wav ?

 

Thanks!

[Hsaka]

I didn't do anything special to make it work, regular loading and playing functions.

The format was ogg

Hope that helps.

[toto88x]

I didn't do anything special to make it work, regular loading and playing functions.

The format was ogg

Hope that helps.

 

I replaced my .wav with a .mp3, and it worked, nice! :-)

[Athul Dilip]

For me sound works perfectly on webview of cocoonjs but didn't work for canvas of it!

Any ideas why?

[valueerror]

@haden: do you have any audio loops in your game?  EVERY file i tried to loop (a very exact cut so the user can not hear where the loop restarts) repeats the first 200ms ..  did you notice that?

[Athul Dilip]

@valueerror

Did sound work for you in the canvas mode of cocoonjs?

[valueerror]

sound works.. yes! (i only use canvas mode because webgl offers a black screen)

 

 but read this answer from ludei to the one problem with audio i experienced ...  it looks like there is no fix for now..  i'm going to ask rich for his opinion on this.

http://www.html5gamedevs.com/topic/3980-common-phaser-cocoonjs-issues/?p=63288

[Athul Dilip]

@valueerror

Is the sound working for you when you're not looping it?

[martzy]

I ran into glitchy looping problems when using mp3 file format for audio. Try .ogg, worked for me  

[valueerror]

the problem i already discussed with cocoonjs members i not resoved by using ogg (i always use ogg btw.)

[mdi]

I have the same problem with the version of the Phaser ( phaser - arcade - physics - 2.3.0.min.js ) and cocoonjs . My audios are already ogg but no sound.