HTML5 check if audio is playing?
function isPlaying(audelem) { return !audelem.paused; }The Audio tag has a paused property. If it is not paused, then it's playing.
You can check the duration. It is playing if the duration is more than 0 seconds and it is not paused.
var myAudio = document.getElementById('myAudioID');if (myAudio.duration > 0 && !myAudio.paused) { //Its playing...do your job} else { //Not playing...maybe paused, stopped or never played.}
While I am really late to this thread, I use this implementation to figure out if the sound is playing:
service.currentAudio = new Audio();var isPlaying = function () { return service.currentAudio && service.currentAudio.currentTime > 0 && !service.currentAudio.paused && !service.currentAudio.ended && service.currentAudio.readyState > 2;}I think most of the flags on the audio element are obvious apart from the ready state which you can read about here: MDN HTMLMediaElement.readyState.