Howler.js: seek no longer works in 2.1.0

[smakinson]

Updating to 2.1.0 causes seek(position) to no longer work. It always plays from the start. If I revert to 2.0.15 it works again. I am using html5: true and format: ['mp3']. Setting the html5PoolSize to 0 did not resolve the issue. I have the same result in chrome & safari.

[goldfire]

Can you provide sample code demonstrating the issue?

[smakinson]

Sure. If I switch between 2.0.15 and 2.1.0 in the pen I get different results when I press seek.

https://codepen.io/smakinson/pen/maPRNe

[ardeois]

I've got the same issue and found the problem.
See https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js/pull/1102

[ardeois]

@smakinson If you change your codepen howler version to my branch it should work. Can you confirm?

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ardeois/howler.js@610ed0c02f07680fd4e73a87cc6ebed8ab273188/dist/howler.min.js

[smakinson]

@ardeois Looks like that fixes it!

[paulrosen]

I think you can also pass the id back in when calling play the second time:

var howl = new Howl(...);
...
var id = howl.play();
...
howl.pause();
...
howl.play(id); // will not start back at beginning.

[ardeois]

Good point, it should work. However it looks to me like a workaround on a regression

[goldfire]

This should now be fixed with https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js/commit/d22ddcf76f58861ce23ca1f6fc21d9895c253902.

[smakinson]

Thank you for addressing this so quickly!

[stevenleeg]

Has this issue come back again? I'm noticing calls to seek always causing the playhead to reset to 0 in v2.1.2 with html5 set to true.

[Mani7TAM]

I am also facing this seek issue in chrome and opera using version 2.1.2. But working without issues in firefox.