Delay between FinishedLoadingURL and actually playing the sound about react-native-sound-player HOT 6 CLOSED

Hi @dan-lee, I just published version 0.10.0 which might fix your issue, please give it a try!

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Hey @johnsonsu sorry for the delay and thanks for addressing it.
I suppose the way to do it now is:

SoundPlayer.loadUrl(url)
SoundPlayer.addEventListener('FinishedLoadingURL', () => SoundPlayer.play())

Is that correct?

Unfortunately,I still have a delay about 750ms on iOS when calling play. For Android it seems to be fine.

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Hi @dan-lee, by delay, do you mean the time between the firing of SoundPlayer.play() call inside:

SoundPlayer.addEventListener('FinishedLoadingURL', () => SoundPlayer.play())

and the time music starts playing? Or the delay between loadUrl and SoundPlayer.play()?

Also, you should probably flip them and do:

SoundPlayer.addEventListener('FinishedLoadingURL', () => SoundPlayer.play())
SoundPlayer.loadUrl(url)

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Thanks for your reply @johnsonsu!
I mean between calling SoundPlayer.play() and the sound actually starting to play on the device. (tested on Simulator and real device.)

Oops, I wrote in the wrong order but I've actually implemented it like you suggested.

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Hi @dan-lee, at this point I'm not sure what I can do to make the experience better.

I'm already doing prepareToPlay in the native code to minimize the gap between function call and music playing, as suggested on Apple's documentation.

One hack that might make it a bit better is simply add an artificial delay between calling loadUrl() and telling user that the music is ready, just to give more time for the app to buffer.

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Hey @johnsonsu

One hack that might make it a bit better is simply add an artificial delay between calling loadUrl() and telling user that the music is ready, just to give more time for the app to buffer.

That's what I am currently doing. 750ms seems to be the sweet spot.

I'm already doing prepareToPlay in the native code to minimize the gap between function call and music playing, as suggested on Apple's documentation.

Sounds pretty much like the problem I am facing. Could potentially solve this issue. I'd be happy to test that out, as soon as it's implemented. Thanks for your efforts :)

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