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'Pop noise' sounds when audio paused with Javascript

I have an audio tag in my html, and which I have .wav inside it. With Javascript, I select audio tag and play the wav., which I trigger using a keyboard key. What I am trying to achieve is, for example, on press of each 'A' key, replay the .wav/play the sound from the beginning)
The playing of the audio works okay, and so does the pause too. However, I get a pop noise, while directly pausing the playing .wav.
var audio = document.getElementById(sound);
if (!isPlaying(audio)) {
audio.play(); // works
} else {
audio.pause(); // pops on this line; I checked with commenting below lines.
audio.currentTime = 0;
audio.play();
}
I found this answer, and as far as I understand, it's happening because I instantly set the volume to 0; but I couldn't figure it out for my case. I believe using a fader with setInterval is not a good approach
I also found audio.muted = true, and tried using it before pausing the volume (and used audio.muted = false just before playing the audio), but this also gives pop noise
Update:
I think I need to use fade out to work around this issue. Is there a way to fade out audio instantly?

Update:
I think I need to use fade out to work around this issue. Is there a
way to fade out audio instantly?
You can use .animate() to animate volume property from current value to 0
var audio = $("audio");
$("button").click(function() {
if (audio[0].volume > 0) {
audio.animate({volume:0});
// call `.pause()` here
}
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<audio controls src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Micronesia_National_Anthem.ogg"></audio>
<button>fade out audio</button>

Please help me to use play/stop code so my code should stop and reset not pause [duplicate]

I am playing a small audio clip on click of each link in my navigation
HTML Code:
<audio tabindex="0" id="beep-one" controls preload="auto" >
<source src="audio/Output 1-2.mp3">
<source src="audio/Output 1-2.ogg">
</audio>
JS code:
$('#links a').click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
var beepOne = $("#beep-one")[0];
beepOne.play();
});
It's working fine so far.
Issue is when a sound clip is already running and i click on any link nothing happens.
I tried to stop the already playing sound on click of link, but there is no direct event for that in HTML5's Audio API
I tried following code but it's not working
$.each($('audio'), function () {
$(this).stop();
});
Any suggestions please?

Instead of stop() you could try with:
sound.pause();
sound.currentTime = 0;
This should have the desired effect.

first you have to set an id for your audio element
in your js :
var ply = document.getElementById('player');
var oldSrc = ply.src;// just to remember the old source
ply.src = "";// to stop the player you have to replace the source with nothing

I was having same issue. A stop should stop the stream and onplay go to live if it is a radio. All solutions I saw had a disadvantage:
player.currentTime = 0 keeps downloading the stream.
player.src = '' raise error event
My solution:
var player = document.getElementById('radio');
player.pause();
player.src = player.src;
And the HTML
<audio src="http://radio-stream" id="radio" class="hidden" preload="none"></audio>

Here is my way of doing stop() method:
Somewhere in code:
audioCh1: document.createElement("audio");
and then in stop():
this.audioCh1.pause()
this.audioCh1.src = 'data:audio/wav;base64,UklGRiQAAABXQVZFZm10IBAAAAABAAEAVFYAAFRWAAABAAgAZGF0YQAAAAA=';
In this way we don`t produce additional request, the old one is cancelled and our audio element is in clean state (tested in Chrome and FF) :>

This method works:
audio.pause();
audio.currentTime = 0;
But if you don't want to have to write these two lines of code every time you stop an audio you could do one of two things. The second I think is the more appropriate one and I'm not sure why the "gods of javascript standards" have not made this standard.
First method: create a function and pass the audio
function stopAudio(audio) {
audio.pause();
audio.currentTime = 0;
}
//then using it:
stopAudio(audio);
Second method (favoured): extend the Audio class:
Audio.prototype.stop = function() {
this.pause();
this.currentTime = 0;
};
I have this in a javascript file I called "AudioPlus.js" which I include in my html before any script that will be dealing with audio.
Then you can call the stop function on audio objects:
audio.stop();
FINALLY CHROME ISSUE WITH "canplaythrough":
I have not tested this in all browsers but this is a problem I came across in Chrome. If you try to set currentTime on an audio that has a "canplaythrough" event listener attached to it then you will trigger that event again which can lead to undesirable results.
So the solution, similar to all cases when you have attached an event listener that you really want to make sure it is not triggered again, is to remove the event listener after the first call. Something like this:
//note using jquery to attach the event. You can use plain javascript as well of course.
$(audio).on("canplaythrough", function() {
$(this).off("canplaythrough");
// rest of the code ...
});
BONUS:
Note that you can add even more custom methods to the Audio class (or any native javascript class for that matter).
For example if you wanted a "restart" method that restarted the audio it could look something like:
Audio.prototype.restart= function() {
this.pause();
this.currentTime = 0;
this.play();
};

It doesn't work sometimes in chrome,
sound.pause();
sound.currentTime = 0;
just change like that,
sound.currentTime = 0;
sound.pause();

From my own javascript function to toggle Play/Pause - since I'm handling a radio stream, I wanted it to clear the buffer so that the listener does not end up coming out of sync with the radio station.
function playStream() {
var player = document.getElementById('player');
(player.paused == true) ? toggle(0) : toggle(1);
}
function toggle(state) {
var player = document.getElementById('player');
var link = document.getElementById('radio-link');
var src = "http://192.81.248.91:8159/;";
switch(state) {
case 0:
player.src = src;
player.load();
player.play();
link.innerHTML = 'Pause';
player_state = 1;
break;
case 1:
player.pause();
player.currentTime = 0;
player.src = '';
link.innerHTML = 'Play';
player_state = 0;
break;
}
}
Turns out, just clearing the currentTime doesn't cut it under Chrome, needed to clear the source too and load it back in. Hope this helps.

As a side note and because I was recently using the stop method provided in the accepted answer, according to this link:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/Events/Media_events
by setting currentTime manually one may fire the 'canplaythrough' event on the audio element. In the link it mentions Firefox, but I encountered this event firing after setting currentTime manually on Chrome. So if you have behavior attached to this event you might end up in an audio loop.

shamangeorge wrote:
by setting currentTime manually one may fire the 'canplaythrough' event on the audio element.
This is indeed what will happen, and pausing will also trigger the pause event, both of which make this technique unsuitable for use as a "stop" method. Moreover, setting the src as suggested by zaki will make the player try to load the current page's URL as a media file (and fail) if autoplay is enabled - setting src to null is not allowed; it will always be treated as a URL. Short of destroying the player object there seems to be no good way of providing a "stop" method, so I would suggest just dropping the dedicated stop button and providing pause and skip back buttons instead - a stop button wouldn't really add any functionality.

This approach is "brute force", but it works assuming using jQuery is "allowed". Surround your "player" <audio></audio> tags with a div (here with an id of "plHolder").
<div id="plHolder">
<audio controls id="player">
...
</audio>
<div>
Then this javascript should work:
function stopAudio() {
var savePlayer = $('#plHolder').html(); // Save player code
$('#player').remove(); // Remove player from DOM
$('#FlHolder').html(savePlayer); // Restore it
}

I was looking for something similar due to making an application that could be used to layer sounds with each other for focus. What I ended up doing was - when selecting a sound, create the audio element with Javascript:
const audio = document.createElement('audio') as HTMLAudioElement;
audio.src = getSoundURL(clickedTrackId);
audio.id = `${clickedTrackId}-audio`;
console.log(audio.id);
audio.volume = 20/100;
audio.load();
audio.play();
Then, append child to document to actually surface the audio element
document.body.appendChild(audio);
Finally, when unselecting audio, you can stop and remove the audio element altogether - this will also stop streaming.
const audio = document.getElementById(`${clickedTrackId}-audio`) as HTMLAudioElement;
audio.pause();
audio.remove();

If you have several audio players on your site and you like to pause all of them:
$('audio').each( function() {
$(this)[0].pause();
});

I believe it would be good to check if the audio is playing state and reset the currentTime property.
if (sound.currentTime !== 0 && (sound.currentTime > 0 && sound.currentTime < sound.duration) {
sound.currentTime = 0;
}
sound.play();

for me that code working fine. (IE10+)
var Wmp = document.getElementById("MediaPlayer");
Wmp.controls.stop();
<object classid="clsid:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6"
standby="Loading áudio..." style="width: 100%; height: 170px" id="MediaPlayer">...
Hope this help.

What I like to do is completely remove the control using Angular2 then it's reloaded when the next song has an audio path:
<audio id="audioplayer" *ngIf="song?.audio_path">
Then when I want to unload it in code I do this:
this.song = Object.assign({},this.song,{audio_path: null});
When the next song is assigned, the control gets completely recreated from scratch:
this.song = this.songOnDeck;

The simple way to get around this error is to catch the error.
audioElement.play() returns a promise, so the following code with a .catch() should suffice manage this issue:
function playSound(sound) {
sfx.pause();
sfx.currentTime = 0;
sfx.src = sound;
sfx.play().catch(e => e);
}
Note: You may want to replace the arrow function with an anonymous function for backward compatibility.

In IE 11 I used combined variant:
player.currentTime = 0;
player.pause();
player.currentTime = 0;
Only 2 times repeat prevents IE from continuing loading media stream after pause() and flooding a disk by that.

What's wrong with simply this?
audio.load()
As stated by the spec and on MDN, respectively:
Playback of any previously playing media resource for this element stops.
Calling load() aborts all ongoing operations involving this media element

Play event is going to infinite loop in videojs

I just did a small example of videojs, which has a log on event play, and i am using APIs like play(),pause().
var myplayer;
var playCount = 0;
videojs("example_video_1").ready(function(){
myplayer = this;
myplayer.on("play", function(){
playCount++;
$("#count").text(playCount)
});
});
$("#test").click(function (){
myplayer.pause();
myplayer.play();
});
The issue is that while executing the APIs the play event will go to an infinite loop.
I can found this issue in touch devices if I enable the controls even while seeking the bar, do play pause etc. So if I didnt use the combination also I can found this issues.
Internally the library is using these APIs in seek, or other controls ?
Link in jsfiddle LIVE BUG:

This is a bug in video js event handling:
https://github.com/videojs/video.js/issues/573 <-- original bug
https://github.com/videojs/video.js/issues/620 <-- best info on 'why' here
In the meantime, one workaround is to put any play/pause toggles in timeouts.
$("#test").click(function (){
myplayer.pause();
window.setTimeout(function() {myplayer.play();}, 10);
});

This is the fix forthis issue...
https://github.com/cameront/video.js/commit/ff0b443c285691074f7f01e8d0326ade0f0a6609 for issues/620

HTML5 video ended event called several times

I have a problem with playing a video in HTML5 and the ended Event.
I view some HTML content and after a expired time I play a video. Is the video ended I will show the HTML content again. This should loop. Its for a presentation.
My problem is, that after the first complete run, the ended event will fired repeatedly and the HTML content will displayed false.
Here is the code part:
function playVideo() {
var video = $('video')[0];
video.addEventListener('ended', function () {
$('video').hide();
fadeShow();
}, false);
video.play();
}
function fadeHide() {
$('#content').fadeOut(1200, function () {
$('div ul[id^=item]').each(function () {
$(this).hide();
});
$('li[class^=visitor] span[id]').each(function () {
$(this).hide();
});
playVideo();
});
}
The fadeHide(); function will not called two times, just the video.addEventListener('ended', function () {}; fill called several times. `fadeshow(); will display the HTML content. Actually I use the newest version of Chrome.
Does anyone have an idea what went wrong?
Edit
HTML video code. I hide the video with css.
<video>
<source src="video/mp4/xxx.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
<source src="video/ogg/xxx.ogg" type="video/ogg" />
<source src="video/webm/xxx.webm" type="video/webm" />
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
Greetz

You should assign the event listener once or when you assign it upon play everytime, you need to detach the event listener again.
function playVideo() {
var video = $('video')[0];
video.addEventListener('ended', function () {
$('video').hide();
video.removeEventListener('ended'); <<<<<<<
fadeShow();
}, false);
video.play();
}
EDIT: I tested in chrome with this fiddle and indeed even if you remove the eventlistener it starts to fire multiple times. It seems there's an issue that removing the event listener does not work correctly.
You should change the event binding / unbinding to jQuery then there is only one ended event.
function playVideo() {
var video = $('video')[0];
$('video').bind('ended', function () {
$('video').unbind('ended');
$('video').hide();
fadeShow();
});
video.play();
}
And your fiddle updated (with shorter video)

Instead of adding an event listener and then manually removing it, try simply using the built in command called "one" (https://github.com/videojs/video.js/blob/master/docs/api/vjs.Player.md#one-first-second-third-)
So your code will become somewhat like this:
function playVideo() {
var video = $('video')[0];
$('video').one('ended', function () {
$('video').hide();
fadeShow();
});
video.play();
}
Which is a little brief, and more dependent on the API itself. That I believe is generally a good practice because the functions in the API have been tested multiple times by a large number of people in the community over multiple browsers and operating systems.

Stopping instead of rewinding at the end of a video in MediaElement.js

I'm wondering how to stop the MediaElement.js player at the end of the video. I wondered how to stop the mediaelement.js player at the end of a video. I was hoping to hold on the last frame and not rewind to show the first frame as it does now.
Is it possible to change this behaviour?

I wrote a fix for this problem and John merged in version 2.10.2.
There is now an option "autoRewind" that you can set to false to prevent the player from going back to the beginning.
The eventlistener is not added and there is no more need to remove it.
$('video').mediaelementplayer({
autoRewind: false
});

I believe that the default behavior of the <video> element is to go back to the beginning so you'd just need to override this by listening for the ended event.
var player = $('#myvideo').mediaelementplayer();
player.media.addEventListener('ended', function(e) {
player.media.setCurrentTime(player.media.duration);
}, false);
Hope that helps!

Probably the best solution is not to be afraid and remove the "rewind-to-start-on-video-end" handler from mediaelement source.
If you go into the source code for mediaelement and search for "ended", you'll eventually see, that rewinding after reaching end of the video is actually done deliberately by mediaelement.
If you want to remove that functionality feel free to just remove that handler for "ended" event from mediaelement source. That solves all the problems, including flickering between last and first frame, mentioned in some other answers to this question.

The code in John Dyer's answer didn't really work for me either for some reason. I was however able to get this version working...
var videoPlayer = new MediaElementPlayer('#homepage-player', {
loop: false,
features:[],
enablePluginDebug: false,
plugins: ['flash','silverlight'],
pluginPath: '/js/mediaelement/',
flashName: 'flashmediaelement.swf',
silverlightName: 'silverlightmediaelement.xap',
success: function (mediaElement, domObject) {
// add event listener
mediaElement.addEventListener('ended', function(e) {
mediaElement.pause();
mediaElement.setCurrentTime(mediaElement.duration);
}, false);
},
error: function () {
}
});
videoPlayer.play();
The only problem I'm having - which is very frustrating, is it is flickering between the LAST and FIRST frames in Chrome. Otherwise, it works as expected in Firefox and IE...

This problem i faced when playing audio files
The problem is in the play, when you pause your player the file will stop but before resuming you have to decrease the current time of the player by any value in your case you may decrease it by a frame maybe
after setting your source ,loading your file and pausing, then
myplayer.player.play();
var currentTime = myplayer.player.getCurrentTime();
myplayer.player.setCurrentTime(currentTime-0.1);
myplayer.player.setCurrentRail();