Audio sounds interrupt each other / can't play concurrently

[ahmedatef286]

What happened?

I had not updated my app that uses flame audio in a while. Yesterday after updating all dependencies, I noticed that audio can no longer be played concurrently. Using Flame audio.play would interrupt any other sound currently playing (IE background music from bgm). Using AudioPool which what I have already been doing does not avoid this issue either.

What do you expect?

Playing a sound with FlameAudio.play or AudioPool.start or bgm.play should not stop other sounds already playing.

How can we reproduce this?

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What steps should take to fix this?

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Do have an example of where the bug occurs?

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Relevant log output

Execute in a terminal and put output into the code block below

Output of: flutter doctor -v

Affected platforms

Android

Other information

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Are you interested in working on a PR for this?

• I want to work on this

[spydon]

Which version of flame_audio did you have previously? It's probably due to some change in the AudioPlayers package.

[ahmedatef286]

I had 2.10.5 which I updated to 2.10.8

I tried rolling back to a previous flame audio package but it didn't work, it does look like an AudioPlayer problem since it did get updated too.

Do you know how I could set AudioPlayer to a specific version? would be greatly appreciated!

Also a funny side effect is the problem of bgm not being disposed in hot restarts got indirectly fixed it seems 🤷🏻‍♂️

[spydon]

You can pin an AudioPlayers version by using dependency_overrides, so add this to your pubspec:

dependency_overrides:
  audioplayers: 6.1.2

If you find out which audioplayers version that is causing the problem, please write here. :)

[spydon]

I just tried with the flame_audio example on android and it works like it should for me...

[ahmedatef286]

I took it down to 5.2.1 and it started working as intended again, thanks alot for your help!

I checked and 6.0.0 is where this problem started for me at least.

have you tried playing something with bgm then playing something else on top of it?

[spydon]

have you tried playing something with bgm then playing something else on top of it?

Yup, that is what this example does:
https://github.com/flame-engine/flame/tree/main/packages/flame_audio/example

I checked and 6.0.0 is where this problem started for me at least.

That's almost a year ago, and nobody else reported this...
What Flutter version are you on?

[ahmedatef286]

Strange, it could be something wrong with my code i guess but the implementation is fairly simple.

This the the output of the version command :

Flutter 3.29.0 • channel stable • https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git
Framework • revision 35c388afb5 (3 days ago) • 2025-02-10 12:48:41 -0800
Engine • revision f73bfc4522
Tools • Dart 3.7.0 • DevTools 2.42.2

[spydon]

Could you try the flame_audio example that I linked above on the same device?

[ahmedatef286]

Tried it just now, the same problem exists when using audioplayers 6.0.0+ and disappears when bringing it down to 5.2.1

[spydon]

Curious, what device are you running on?

[ahmedatef286]

physical Samsung Note 20, Android 13

[MaxmaxB]

Is there any update on this? I'm experiencing the same issue, where I can play background music and other sounds simultaneously. It's only a problem on Android

[ahmedatef286]

I ended up pinning audio_players to 5.2.1 . Add this to your pubspec yaml and clean/get

dependency_overrides:
   audioplayers: 5.2.1

This is a quick and dirty fix if you need something ASAP since I just wanted to push an update for my app, I don't have much more information on it unfortunately.

Hope this helps!

[MaxmaxB]

Thanks @ahmedatef286 I ended fixing the issue by upgrading flutter to 3.29.2 & flame_audio to 2.11.2. I believed they may have fixed it recently