Playback silence when time skipping longer songs

[mintchip55]

Describe the bug On occasion, attempting to skip around on a longer song within a browser will result in the time continuing to progress but no audio playing back. Eventually, if left alone for 10-15 seconds, the audio will eventually pick back up. I have not personally tested if this issue also exists on smartphones.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Play a song (possible 6+ minutes in length)
2. Skip to the center

Expected behavior It should just start playing the audio back from that point in time with negligible delay.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 10
• Browser: Firefox
• Version: 121.0.1

Additional context I've tested on a few different lengthy songs and I seem to get the same result consistently. I don't know what the threshold for how long a song needs to be for the issue to occur.

https://weeklybeats.com/horatiuromantic/music/you-attract-what-you-put-out-in-the-world https://weeklybeats.com/viridianloom/music/vois-tu https://weeklybeats.com/viridianloom/music/aubadoir

[colonel-blimp]

I have not personally tested if this issue also exists on smartphones.

This issue also exists on smartphones (android, firefox, pixel 4a)

[trash80]

Don't think there is much I can do here. The player is pretty simple. I imagine it just needs a bit to get the data to catch up.