Audio playback issues with Google Chrome

sflu

Hi,

I have an experiment where participants listen to a word and then respond by pressing a key. I have more than 1000 trials. Everything works fine in Firefox but in Google Chrome some words fail to play. I get the following error when running in Chrome: [Intervention] Blocked attempt to create a WebMediaPlayer as there are too many WebMediaPlayers already in existence

I'm really not experienced this so if anybody has any ideas on what I could try to get the experiment to work consistently in Chrome, I'd appreciate it!

cvanbuck

Hi @sflu,

It seems that Chrome has a limit on the number of media players that can be assigned in a given tab. You can find workarounds here, as this issue has been reported before.

I don't know how your experiment is set up, but you could also try reusing/updating the media player element each time instead of creating a new one, or forcing resources to be properly released/destroyed after use... 

Hope this helps,

Claire