Cannot read property 'src' of null at W.g.C (https://s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/www-widgetapi-vflQKB5wA/www-widgetapi.js:121:84)

[pipboy9000]

the player works great when i first load the component, but fails to play videos when component is destroyed and mounted again (that's what i think... ) in my site i use a router-view, when navigating to the player component the first time it works great, but if i go back to the home page and then forward again to the player component i get this error:

Cannot read property 'src' of null

this is the full stack trace

www-widgetapi.js:121 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'src' of null at W.g.C (https://s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/www-widgetapi-vflQKB5wA/www-widgetapi.js:121:84) at V (https://s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/www-widgetapi-vflQKB5wA/www-widgetapi.js:113:99) at W.(anonymous function).getCurrentTime.Mb.(anonymous function) [as loadVideoById] (https://s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/www-widgetapi-vflQKB5wA/www-widgetapi.js:130:11) at VueComponent.play (eval at (http://localhost:8080/app.js:1037:1), :136:31) at VueComponent.boundFn [as play] (eval at (http://localhost:8080/app.js:729:1), :165:14) at Vue$3.eval (eval at (http://localhost:8080/app.js:1037:1), :73:18) at Vue$3.Vue.$emit (eval at (http://localhost:8080/app.js:729:1), :2207:16) at VueComponent.playSong (eval at (http://localhost:8080/app.js:1058:1), :123:73) at boundFn (eval at (http://localhost:8080/app.js:729:1), :165:14) at Proxy.invoker (eval at (http://localhost:8080/app.js:729:1), :1738:18)

the player seems to be fine, i only get this error when trying to play a video using the loadVideoById method

you can look at the error yourself in my site (WIP) https://mixtape-app.herokuapp.com/#/

1. create a new station
2. in the text input below the player you can search for youtube video, search for a video and click on it in the search results to add it to the playlist,
3. you can now click on it in the playlist to play it.
4. click the back button to go back to the main page.
5. now go forward again to return to the station you created.
6. trying to play the video again will produce the error.

any ideas??

[pipboy9000]

i eventually solved this by just keeping the player component on all the time using v-show instead of v-if, hope this helps