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HTML5 Audio implementation of the sound.

Constructor:

new HTML5AudioSound(manager, key, [config])

Parameters:

name type arguments Default description
manager Phaser.Sound.HTML5AudioSoundManager

Reference to the current sound manager instance.

key string

Asset key for the sound.

config Phaser.Types.Sound.SoundConfig <optional> {}

An optional config object containing default sound settings.

Since: 3.0.0

Extends


Members

<private> audio: HTMLAudioElement
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Description:

Reference to an HTML5 Audio tag used for playing sound.

Type:
HTMLAudioElement
Default: null
Since: 3.0.0
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<private> config: Phaser.Types.Sound.SoundConfig
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Description:

A config object used to store default sound settings' values. Default values will be set by properties' setters.

Type:
Inherited from: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#config
Since: 3.0.0
Source: src/sound/BaseSound.js (Line 114)
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<private> currentConfig: Phaser.Types.Sound.SoundConfig
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Description:

Reference to the currently used config. It could be default config or marker config.

Type:
Inherited from: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#currentConfig
Since: 3.0.0
Source: src/sound/BaseSound.js (Line 136)
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<readonly> currentMarker: Phaser.Types.Sound.SoundMarker
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Description:

Currently playing marker. 'null' if whole sound is playing.

Type:
Default: null
Inherited from: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#currentMarker
Since: 3.0.0
Source: src/sound/BaseSound.js (Line 160)
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detune: number
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Description:

The detune value of this Sound, given in cents. The range of the value is -1200 to 1200, but we recommend setting it to 50.

Type:
number
Default: 0
Since: 3.0.0
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<readonly> duration: number
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Description:

A value representing the duration, in seconds. It could be total sound duration or a marker duration.

Type:
number
Inherited from: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#duration
Since: 3.0.0
Source: src/sound/BaseSound.js (Line 93)
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<readonly> isPaused: boolean
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Description:

Flag indicating if sound is currently paused.

Type:
boolean
Default: false
Inherited from: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#isPaused
Since: 3.0.0
Source: src/sound/BaseSound.js (Line 69)
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<readonly> isPlaying: boolean
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Description:

Flag indicating if sound is currently playing.

Type:
boolean
Default: false
Inherited from: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#isPlaying
Since: 3.0.0
Source: src/sound/BaseSound.js (Line 58)
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<readonly> key: string
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Description:

Asset key for the sound.

Type:
string
Inherited from: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#key
Since: 3.0.0
Source: src/sound/BaseSound.js (Line 48)
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loop: boolean
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Description:

Flag indicating whether or not the sound or current sound marker will loop.

Type:
boolean
Default: false
Since: 3.0.0
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<private> manager: Phaser.Sound.BaseSoundManager
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Description:

Local reference to the sound manager.

Type:
Inherited from: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#manager
Since: 3.0.0
Source: src/sound/BaseSound.js (Line 38)
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<readonly> markers: Object.<string, Phaser.Types.Sound.SoundMarker>
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Description:

Object containing markers definitions.

Type:
Default: {}
Inherited from: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#markers
Since: 3.0.0
Source: src/sound/BaseSound.js (Line 149)
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mute: boolean
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Description:

Boolean indicating whether the sound is muted or not. Gets or sets the muted state of this sound.

Type:
boolean
Default: false
Since: 3.0.0
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pan: number
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Description:

Gets or sets the pan of this sound, a value between -1 (full left pan) and 1 (full right pan).

Has no audible effect on HTML5 Audio Sound, but still generates the PAN Event.

Type:
number
Default: 0
Since: 3.50.0
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<private> pendingRemove: boolean
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Description:

Flag indicating if destroy method was called on this sound.

Type:
boolean
Default: false
Inherited from: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#pendingRemove
Since: 3.0.0
Source: src/sound/BaseSound.js (Line 172)
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<private> previousTime: number
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Description:

Audio tag's playback position recorded on previous update method call. Set to 0 if sound is not playing.

Type:
number
Default: 0
Since: 3.0.0
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rate: number
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Description:

Rate at which this Sound will be played. Value of 1.0 plays the audio at full speed, 0.5 plays the audio at half speed and 2.0 doubles the audios playback speed.

Type:
number
Default: 1
Since: 3.0.0
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seek: number
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Description:

Property representing the position of playback for this sound, in seconds. Setting it to a specific value moves current playback to that position. The value given is clamped to the range 0 to current marker duration. Setting seek of a stopped sound has no effect.

Type:
number
Since: 3.0.0
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<private> startTime: number
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Description:

Timestamp as generated by the Request Animation Frame or SetTimeout representing the time at which the delayed sound playback should start. Set to 0 if sound playback is not delayed.

Type:
number
Default: 0
Since: 3.0.0
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<private> tags: Array.<HTMLAudioElement>
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Description:

An array containing all HTML5 Audio tags that could be used for individual sound's playback. Number of instances depends on the config value passed to the Loader#audio method call, default is 1.

Type:
Array.<HTMLAudioElement>
Since: 3.0.0
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<readonly> totalDuration: number
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Description:

The total duration of the sound in seconds.

Type:
number
Inherited from: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#totalDuration
Since: 3.0.0
Source: src/sound/BaseSound.js (Line 104)
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<readonly> totalRate: number
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Description:

A property that holds the value of sound's actual playback rate, after its rate and detune values has been combined with global rate and detune values.

Type:
number
Default: 1
Inherited from: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#totalRate
Since: 3.0.0
Source: src/sound/BaseSound.js (Line 80)
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volume: number
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Description:

Gets or sets the volume of this sound, a value between 0 (silence) and 1 (full volume).

Type:
number
Default: 1
Since: 3.0.0
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Methods

addListener(event, fn, [context])
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Description:

Add a listener for a given event.

Parameters:

name type arguments Default description
event string | symbol

The event name.

fn function

The listener function.

context * <optional> this

The context to invoke the listener with.

Returns:
Description:

this.

Inherited from: Phaser.Events.EventEmitter#addListener
Since: 3.0.0
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addMarker(marker)
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Description:

Adds a marker into the current sound. A marker is represented by name, start time, duration, and optionally config object. This allows you to bundle multiple sounds together into a single audio file and use markers to jump between them for playback.

Parameters:

name type description
marker Phaser.Types.Sound.SoundMarker

Marker object.

Returns:
Description:

Whether the marker was added successfully.

Type:
  • boolean
Inherited from: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#addMarker
Since: 3.0.0
Source: src/sound/BaseSound.js (Line 184)
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<protected> applyConfig()
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Description:

Method used internally for applying config values to some of the sound properties.

Inherited from: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#applyConfig
Since: 3.0.0
Source: src/sound/BaseSound.js (Line 409)
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<protected> calculateRate()
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Description:

Method used internally to calculate total playback rate of the sound.

Overrides: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#calculateRate
Since: 3.0.0
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destroy()
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Description:

Calls Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#destroy method and cleans up all HTML5 Audio related stuff.

Overrides: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#destroy
Since: 3.0.0
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emit(event, [args])
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Description:

Calls each of the listeners registered for a given event.

Parameters:

name type arguments description
event string | symbol

The event name.

args * <optional>

Additional arguments that will be passed to the event handler.

Returns:
Description:

true if the event had listeners, else false.

Type:
  • boolean
Inherited from: Phaser.Events.EventEmitter#emit
Since: 3.0.0
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eventNames()
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Description:

Return an array listing the events for which the emitter has registered listeners.

Type:
  • Array.<(string
  • symbol)>
Inherited from: Phaser.Events.EventEmitter#eventNames
Since: 3.0.0
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listenerCount(event)
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Description:

Return the number of listeners listening to a given event.

Parameters:

name type description
event string | symbol

The event name.

Returns:
Description:

The number of listeners.

Type:
  • number
Inherited from: Phaser.Events.EventEmitter#listenerCount
Since: 3.0.0
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listeners(event)
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Description:

Return the listeners registered for a given event.

Parameters:

name type description
event string | symbol

The event name.

Returns:
Description:

The registered listeners.

Type:
  • Array.<function()>
Inherited from: Phaser.Events.EventEmitter#listeners
Since: 3.0.0
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off(event, [fn], [context], [once])
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Description:

Remove the listeners of a given event.

Parameters:

name type arguments description
event string | symbol

The event name.

fn function <optional>

Only remove the listeners that match this function.

context * <optional>

Only remove the listeners that have this context.

once boolean <optional>

Only remove one-time listeners.

Returns:
Description:

this.

Inherited from: Phaser.Events.EventEmitter#off
Since: 3.0.0
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on(event, fn, [context])
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Description:

Add a listener for a given event.

Parameters:

name type arguments Default description
event string | symbol

The event name.

fn function

The listener function.

context * <optional> this

The context to invoke the listener with.

Returns:
Description:

this.

Inherited from: Phaser.Events.EventEmitter#on
Since: 3.0.0
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<private> onFocus()
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Description:

Method used internally by sound manager for resuming sound if Phaser.Sound.HTML5AudioSoundManager#pauseOnBlur is set to true.

Since: 3.0.0
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once(event, fn, [context])
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Description:

Add a one-time listener for a given event.

Parameters:

name type arguments Default description
event string | symbol

The event name.

fn function

The listener function.

context * <optional> this

The context to invoke the listener with.

Returns:
Description:

this.

Inherited from: Phaser.Events.EventEmitter#once
Since: 3.0.0
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pause()
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Description:

Pauses the sound.

Returns:
Description:

Whether the sound was paused successfully.

Type:
  • boolean
Overrides: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#pause
Since: 3.0.0
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<private> pickAndPlayAudioTag()
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Description:

Used internally to do what the name says.

Returns:
Description:

Whether the sound was assigned an audio tag successfully.

Type:
  • boolean
Since: 3.0.0
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<private> pickAudioTag()
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Description:

This method performs the audio tag pooling logic. It first looks for unused audio tag to assign to this sound object. If there are no unused audio tags, based on HTML5AudioSoundManager#override property value, it looks for sound with most advanced playback and hijacks its audio tag or does nothing.

Returns:
Description:

Whether the sound was assigned an audio tag successfully.

Type:
  • boolean
Since: 3.0.0
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play([markerName], [config])
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Description:

Play this sound, or a marked section of it. It always plays the sound from the start. If you want to start playback from a specific time you can set 'seek' setting of the config object, provided to this call, to that value.

Parameters:

name type arguments Default description
markerName string | Phaser.Types.Sound.SoundConfig <optional> ''

If you want to play a marker then provide the marker name here. Alternatively, this parameter can be a SoundConfig object.

config Phaser.Types.Sound.SoundConfig <optional>

Optional sound config object to be applied to this marker or entire sound if no marker name is provided. It gets memorized for future plays of current section of the sound.

Returns:
Description:

Whether the sound started playing successfully.

Type:
  • boolean
Overrides: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#play
Since: 3.0.0
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<private> playCatchPromise()
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Description:

Method used for playing audio tag and catching possible exceptions thrown from rejected Promise returned from play method call.

Since: 3.0.0
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removeAllListeners([event])
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Description:

Remove all listeners, or those of the specified event.

Parameters:

name type arguments description
event string | symbol <optional>

The event name.

Returns:
Description:

this.

Inherited from: Phaser.Events.EventEmitter#removeAllListeners
Since: 3.0.0
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removeListener(event, [fn], [context], [once])
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Description:

Remove the listeners of a given event.

Parameters:

name type arguments description
event string | symbol

The event name.

fn function <optional>

Only remove the listeners that match this function.

context * <optional>

Only remove the listeners that have this context.

once boolean <optional>

Only remove one-time listeners.

Returns:
Description:

this.

Inherited from: Phaser.Events.EventEmitter#removeListener
Since: 3.0.0
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removeMarker(markerName)
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Description:

Removes a marker from the sound.

Parameters:

name type description
markerName string

The name of the marker to remove.

Returns:
Description:

Removed marker object or 'null' if there was no marker with provided name.

Inherited from: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#removeMarker
Since: 3.0.0
Source: src/sound/BaseSound.js (Line 261)
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<private> reset()
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Description:

Method used internally to reset sound state, usually when stopping sound or when hijacking audio tag from another sound.

Since: 3.0.0
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<protected> resetConfig()
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Description:

Method used internally for resetting values of some of the config properties.

Inherited from: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#resetConfig
Since: 3.0.0
Source: src/sound/BaseSound.js (Line 426)
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resume()
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Description:

Resumes the sound.

Returns:
Description:

Whether the sound was resumed successfully.

Type:
  • boolean
Overrides: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#resume
Since: 3.0.0
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setDetune(value)
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Description:

Sets the detune value of this Sound, given in cents. The range of the value is -1200 to 1200, but we recommend setting it to 50.

Parameters:

name type description
value number

The range of the value is -1200 to 1200, but we recommend setting it to 50.

Returns:
Description:

This Sound instance.

Since: 3.3.0
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setLoop(value)
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Description:

Sets the loop state of this Sound.

Parameters:

name type description
value boolean

true to loop this sound, false to not loop it.

Returns:
Description:

This Sound instance.

Since: 3.4.0
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setMute(value)
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Description:

Sets the muted state of this Sound.

Parameters:

name type description
value boolean

true to mute this sound, false to unmute it.

Returns:
Description:

This Sound instance.

Since: 3.4.0
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setPan(value)
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Description:

Sets the pan of this sound, a value between -1 (full left pan) and 1 (full right pan).

Has no audible effect on HTML5 Audio Sound, but still generates the PAN Event.

Parameters:

name type description
value number

The pan of the sound. A value between -1 (full left pan) and 1 (full right pan).

Returns:
Description:

This Sound instance.

Since: 3.50.0
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setRate(value)
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Description:

Sets the playback rate of this Sound.

For example, a value of 1.0 plays the audio at full speed, 0.5 plays the audio at half speed and 2.0 doubles the audios playback speed.

Parameters:

name type description
value number

The playback rate at of this Sound.

Returns:
Description:

This Sound instance.

Since: 3.3.0
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setSeek(value)
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Description:

Seeks to a specific point in this sound.

Parameters:

name type description
value number

The point in the sound to seek to.

Returns:
Description:

This Sound instance.

Since: 3.4.0
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setVolume(value)
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Description:

Sets the volume of this Sound.

Parameters:

name type description
value number

The volume of the sound.

Returns:
Description:

This Sound instance.

Since: 3.4.0
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shutdown()
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Description:

Removes all listeners.

Inherited from: Phaser.Events.EventEmitter#shutdown
Since: 3.0.0
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stop()
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Description:

Stop playing this sound.

Returns:
Description:

Whether the sound was stopped successfully.

Type:
  • boolean
Overrides: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#stop
Since: 3.0.0
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<private> stopAndReleaseAudioTag()
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Description:

Used internally to do what the name says.

Since: 3.0.0
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<protected> update(time)
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Description:

Update method called automatically by sound manager on every game step.

Parameters:

name type description
time number

The current timestamp as generated by the Request Animation Frame or SetTimeout.

Overrides: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#update
Since: 3.0.0
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updateMarker(marker)
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Description:

Updates previously added marker.

Parameters:

name type description
marker Phaser.Types.Sound.SoundMarker

Marker object with updated values.

Returns:
Description:

Whether the marker was updated successfully.

Type:
  • boolean
Inherited from: Phaser.Sound.BaseSound#updateMarker
Since: 3.0.0
Source: src/sound/BaseSound.js (Line 231)
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<private> updateMute()
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Description:

Method used internally to determine mute setting of the sound.

Since: 3.0.0
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<private> updateVolume()
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Description:

Method used internally to calculate total volume of the sound.

Since: 3.0.0
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