Refer to the published project here: https://brandev.itch.io/fmod-webgl-no-sound Issue: When loading the “Go to next scene”, sometimes the audio becomes inaudible. This seems to happen if you click within the game window or outside first. I haven’t found a consistent way to reproduce this though. …

Also find that the FMOD team’s version works without issue: Unity WebGL Player | Unity HTML Demo (fmod.com)

I found that this issue only happens in Google Chrome due to their new autoplay policy. ( Unity - Manual: Audio in WebGL (unity3d.com) ) . This still doesn’t answer why the FMOD team’s version works consistently on Google Chrome but not my itch.io version.

Apologies for the delayed response. After a discussion with the development team, it seems that the behaviour you’re describing is the result of a user interaction requirement from the browser - the Unity WebGL example on our website is using an older version of FMOD that handled it differently fro…

I can confirm that the code in the itch.io page I sent has “System:mixerSuspend” and “System::mixerResume”. I’m using the same code as the “fmod/uity-html5-demo” github repo. The implementation of the suspend/resume can be found here: unity-html5-demo/Assets/HTML Demo/LoadBankAndScene.cs at 2.02 · f…

Thanks for checking that for me. Unfortunately, at present I don’t have any workarounds to offer, but I’ve passed this along to the development team for further investigation.

Has a solution been found for this issue yet?

WebGL Issue - No Audible Sound Occasionally

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Leah_FMOD September 23, 2025, 5:17am 8

Unfortunately, I don’t have any new information to offer you on this issue. One of my colleagues is has responded to the thread you posted, which I’ll link here for posterity: Unity WebGL minimization causes sound to disappear

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WebGL Issue - No Audible Sound Occasionally

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