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rated 0 times [ 126] [ 7] / answers: 1 / hits: 22880 / 8 Years ago, thu, may 5, 2016, 12:00:00

I am using Chrome. In my dev tools console, I tried the following:

Everything works as expected except last line. Why can't I set currentTime on it?

Also in general, I am finding this whole HTML5 Audio thing to not be very reliable. Is there a robust javascript wrapper that fallsback to flash ?

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answered 8 Years ago jadyngraysons · Accepted Answer

You need to do something like this (if you use jQuery)

$('#elem_audio').bind('canplay', function() {

  this.currentTime = 10;

});

or in Javascript

var aud = document.getElementById(elem_audio);

aud.oncanplay = function() {

    aud.currentTime = 10;

};

The reason behind for this setup is you need to make sure the audio is ready to play.