.seek() returning Howler object

This is the code I’m working with:

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { connect } from 'react-redux';
import { setPosition } from '../Store';
import ReactHowler from 'react-howler';

class Audio extends Component {
  player = React.createRef();

  componentDidMount(){
    window.requestAnimationFrame(this.getPosition);
  }

  componentDidUpdate(){
    if(this.props.audioPlaying){
      window.requestAnimationFrame(this.getPosition);
    }
  }

  getPosition = () => {
    console.log(this.player.howler.seek());
    //this.props.dispatch(setPosition(this.player.howler));
    if(this.props.audioPlaying){
      window.requestAnimationFrame(this.getPosition);
    }
  }

  render () {
    return (
      <ReactHowler ref={(ref) => (this.player = ref)} src="/assets/uniin.mp3" playing={this.props.audioPlaying} />
    );
  }
}

const mapStateToProps = (state) => ({ ...state.audioPlayer });

export default connect(mapStateToProps)(Audio);

Logged to the console is: Howl {_orientation: Array(3), _stereo: null, _pos: null, _pannerAttr: {…}, _onstereo: Array(0), …}

Am I doing something wrong? I’m following the docs as far as I can tell…

[Tobska]

This is weird because it still returns the said object even when the .howlerState() is ‘loaded’.

[SebastianGerS]

Ok so I looked in to it a bit more and it seam like it’s happening in 3.7.3 aswell. I experienced it now after upgrading to 3.7.4 but when I think about it i probably did experience it when I first started to use it as well I just worked around it (but obviously not entirely). When downgrading to 3.7.3 the problem persists it’s only that i’m not experiencing it in all circumstances.

The problem seams to occur when I try to change src before the previous src has been loaded (and I’m saving the position(seek) of howler in localstorage when the src is changed (as long as seek is not 0). I guess the easiest way for me to remedy this is just to also check that seek does not return a object before trying to save the position.

Anyway this seams to confirm what you are saying @Stenerson that seek returns the howler object when the sound is not loaded.