Phaser: music only plays on first touch (focus)

[Sam]

Hello everyone,

I am developing with Phaser for a few weeks and got stuck with an issue that themes to be Phaser sited.
You can see the code below-> The soundfile is only playing if the loaded game is touched. (Themes to be a focus-problem?)
There is no function etc. around the code below. The soundfiles are very small and encoded very fast.

I'm using latest Phaser (2.0.7) and cocoonjs (2.0.2).
This issue themes to be affect every iOS Device. Maybe someone can help.

cheers,


Code:
preload:

this.load.audio('menu', ['assets/audio/menu.mp3', 'assets/audio/menu.ogg']);

create:

this.menuMusic = game.add.audio('menu');this.menuMusic.play('',0,1,true);

Testing Devices:
iPad mini (iOS 7)
iPad Air (iOs 7)
iPhone 4s (iOs 7)
iPhone 4 (iOs 7)
iPhone 5 (iOs 7)

Sound-file-info:
.mp3  file:
length: 00:12 (seconds)
296 KB

.ogg file:
lenght: 00:12 (seconds)
666KB

[lewster32]

This is a restriction with iOS browsers - you must trigger sound via a touch interaction. This is usually solved by having the user press a button to start the game, or tap an intro screen to start the main menu etc. Unfortunately I don't think there's a workaround; this is an Apple restriction.

[Sam]

wow, very fast answer!
So I have to work around, no problem at all. But good to know on which side the problem depends.

Thanks

[rich]

Yup there's no work-around, it's a browser based restriction I'm afraid.

[Sam]

A "press-button" or "touch to start" screen  isn't worse at all. In fact it can be a lil' bit nostalgia.
Good to know that this isn't a Phaser-based problem. The framework performs well and gives us great opportunities.

Can you confirm that this only affects iOS?

thank for the super-fast support

[rich]

No it happens on some Android browsers too, but it's a restriction they are slowly removing. In a year or so it will be a thing of the past.

[Sam]

Update to this post: NOV 2014
CocoonJS and Cordova seems to handle sound very well now on appstart.
Nonetheless you should use a boot function to be sure everything is loaded - cocoonJS and apache cordova will play sound without having to do a first touch or something.

[Sam]

Update to this post: NOV 2014
CocoonJS and Cordova seems to handle sound very well now on appstart.
Nonetheless you should use a boot function to be sure everything is loaded - cocoonJS and apache cordova will play sound without having to do a first touch or something.