Playback issues in Webkit browsers on iOS
We've received reports in the support channel about issues with playback when using iOS devices. The web app seems to be unable to load content and instead proceeds to skip to the next track.
Does anyone use Funkwhale on an IOS phone (apple), by connecting through the web browser. it seems that the buffering time is quite low, and keeps skipping songs. Not sure what causes this as it works perfectly fine on my PC. So I select a song, it trys to load for about 3 seconds then skips to the next song and does the same thing all the way through the playlist.
The issue is partially alleviated by quickly pausing and then playing the track, however the time frame for this is only a couple of seconds. The browser typically skips playback within the first 2 seconds.
I tried in my phone clicking pause and play. The timeframe is rather quick, like less than 2 seconds it feels like, however even if I do get in there to pause the song, it still skips and pauses on the next song. If I press play on the next song it does the same thing etc.
The issue occurs independent of filetype, and affects transcoded (MP3) tracks as well as other file type.
This issue seems to have appeared since the migration away from Howler, but it's difficult to say when it first appeared. The issue does not appear to affect desktop webkit-based browsers (tested in Safari Version 17.3).