# Play Audio Node Not Playing Audio

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/play-audio-node-not-playing-audio/48433>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [15 July 2021 02:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/play-audio-node-not-playing-audio/48433 "2021-07-15T02:39:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![aa0z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@aa0z](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/aa0z)\
**Post date:** [15 July 2021 02:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/play-audio-node-not-playing-audio/48433/1 "2021-07-15T02:39:06Z")

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The play audio node was working up until yesterday (7/13/21) and now it's broken. I haven't updated Node Red, the Play Audio node nor Chrome. Tried it in Edge and still no audio. Audio works on the PC. Tried my laptop, same issue. Tried a different voice....nada....

Anybody else Play Audio node just stop working?

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**Author:** ![Gunner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/gunner/32/43582_2.png) [@Gunner](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Gunner)\
**Post date:** [15 July 2021 04:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/play-audio-node-not-playing-audio/48433/2 "2021-07-15T04:11:59Z")

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What I have running `Play Audio` and `Audio Out` (for dashboard) work fine still.

> [@aa0z](#):
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> I haven't updated Node Red, the Play Audio node nor Chrome.

Nothing (hopefully 😛 ) is going to reach out from the internet to randomly change it... something at your end must have changed.

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**Author:** ![Gunner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/gunner/32/43582_2.png) [@Gunner](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Gunner)\
**Post date:** [15 July 2021 04:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/play-audio-node-not-playing-audio/48433/3 "2021-07-15T04:35:19Z")

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I should add that at times when I am over-clicking the "Speak" button (doing too much too fast) there can be a significant delay. I suspect this is more in my browsers TTS system than a NR issue.

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**Author:** ![aa0z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@aa0z](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/aa0z)\
**Post date:** [20 July 2021 12:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/play-audio-node-not-playing-audio/48433/4 "2021-07-20T12:11:56Z")

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So just an update for everybody on this topic. Here are the things I did to bring it back to life. I have no idea which one of these actually worked, but it's working.

I ended up going into Chrome and resetting the browser to it's default settings, clearing the cache and history and restarting the computer and that did it.

I also restarted the Pi for good measure and deleted all my instances of Play Audio, and uninstalled the node from the pallet. Restarted the Pi and then re-installed and put the Play Audio back in my flows.

I also disabled all my extentions. Once I had it working, I enabled them one by one to make sure there wasn't any conflicts.

Hope one of these works for someone if they have the same issues.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [18 September 2021 12:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/play-audio-node-not-playing-audio/48433/5 "2021-09-18T12:11:58Z")

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