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Does anyone knows how to change current time of song correctly in JavaScript?

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Hi, everyone! I'm trying to make custom audio player in JavaScript and when I try to change current time of song then on some songs it sets currentTime to 0. I tried to find solution and it seems like bug in Chrome or something. Maybe someone know how to fix it?

My code is so simple:

const audio = new Audio();

function playSong(songURL) {
  audio.src = songURL;
  audio.play();
}

function seek(value) {
  audio.currentTime = value;
}
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Antonio Piras • • Edited

This code is perfectly fine: playcode.io/754024/
I ran into this bug some time ago and it may be caused by one or more of the following reasons:

  1. You're trying to "seek" the track before it's loaded
  2. The headers for the file are not set correctly (stackoverflow.com/questions/521379...)
  3. Sometimes Chrome simply f****s up and it needs to be killed and restarted :)

Hope this helps.

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Pavel Keyzik •

Thank you, Antonio! It helped me a lot and I fixed the problem by providing correct headers.

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