Hi There, Test WebGL: urp-test In Chrome/Firefox clicking ‘Init’ followed by ‘Play Sound’ emits audio as expected, however no audio is heard on Safari :frowning: As per the docs the INIT FMOD button runs https://fmod.com/resources/documentation-unity?version=2.01&page=platform-specifics.html …

Thanks Jeff, the fix for this has dropped in 2.02.07 I see! Awesome stuff.

I have verified 2.02.04 is working fine in Safari. It looks like you are meeting the user interaction requirement correctly, the other one for WebGL is async bank loading , are you loading your banks asynchronously?

Hi @jeff_fmod yep I can confirm that the banks are loaded, and indeed it is still broken in Safari (just to reiterate as well, works fine in Chrome). Possibly it is related to the Safari version? However I’ve made a minimal reproduction project which can be downloaded from: fmod_safar…

Just tested on Safari 15.2, MacOS 12.1 and no audio, so I don’t think it is version specific

Thank you for sending that over, I can see that banks are not being loaded asynchronously. We have an Async Loading Script Example which demonstrates how to achieve this. To use it you need to setup a separate load scene that will load your game’s banks and main scene, in your case “SampleScene”, as…

Firstly, thanks for continuing to look at this, and thanks for the suggestion, Unfortunately this didn’t work - I implemented it as described, where there’s an initial loading scene, runs the script as-is copied from the documentation URL, setup the bank references identically to your screen shot,…

Strangely it’s working for me- one thing to try, can you please try going into your Safari browser and changing your video auto-play preferences to Allow All Auto-Play ?

Okay good news and bad news :slight_smile: So the good news is, setting ‘Allow All Auto-Play’ does mean the FMOD project works! The bad news is I don’t think this is a long term workaround. Unity built-in audio works without needing to set allow auto-play, I’ve made a fresh unity project, single…

And just for completeness :smiley: The hosted FMOD and Built-In projects FMOD HTML5 Unity Built-in HTML5 And a video comparing these websiutes in Safari with audio initially on auto-play off, and then with auto-play on. builtin_vs_safari.MOV Google Drive file. …

Than you for verifying, I agree it is unreasonable to expect users to change their browser settings- especially considering Unity doesn’t have this issue. The Dev team has been updated with this information and will continue investigating the issue, please use the autoplay workaround in the meantime…

[Bug][2.02.04] WebGL - Safari - No Audio in FMOD, but works for other browsers

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mnewcombe April 3, 2022, 5:41am 2

Note this also still appears to be an issue with the HTML5 FMOD sample demo [Bug] WebGL - Safari - No Audio in FMOD Docs Example

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[Bug][2.02.04] WebGL - Safari - No Audio in FMOD, but works for other browsers

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