Audio Duplicates and Plays out-of-Sync in Background


Description of the issue:
On sites that play video, (specifically Instagram stories, Tiktok and URLs for MP3 files such as this one: http://number-none.com/blow/media/psalm_46.mp3) I find that the audio continues playing in the background even when the video is paused. If I play the video, the audio in the background continues to play - leading to two out-of-sync audio tracks playing at the same time.

How can this issue be reproduced?

As above.

Expected result:
Pausing videos should stop the audio. There should not be two separate out-of-sync audios playing simultaneously.

Brave Version( check About Brave):
Version 1.42.88 Chromium: 104.0.5112.81 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Additional Information:

@phytographer,
Thank you for reaching out.
I’m not seeing this on my end on either macOS or Windows systems — audio stops when the audio/video is paused and resumes properly when unpaused (no syncing issue). Can you please confirm for me whether you’re using Windows 10 or 11? Additionally, can you tell me if you have any extensions installed in the browser at this time?

Thanks.

I’m using Windows 11

I have the following extensions active:

Url Shortener for Google Chrome™ : version 3_0_0
Google Translate : version 2_0_12
greaselion-7 : version 1_0
Brave Web Store : version 0_2
Citationsy - Cite Websites and Papers : version 1_2_4
Zoom Closer : version 1_7
PDF to Docs - PDF Converter Tool : version 2_1_7
Hypothesis - Web & PDF Annotation : version 1_1077_0_0
Honey: Automatic Coupons & Rewards : version 15_2_0
greaselion-3 : version 1_0
Calendly: Meeting Scheduling Software : version 2_6_3_0
Pushbullet : version 364
Timecost for Google Calendar : version 0_1_1
WhatRuns : version 1_7_8
Spotify - Music for every moment : version 0_2_4
Auto Translate for YouTube™ captions : version 0_12
Axiom Browser Automation : version 3_11_1
Vimium : version 1_67
Compose AI: AI-powered Writing Tool : version 0_3_6
Typio Form Recovery : version 3_2_4
Bot Sentinel : version 2_1_5
BlockSite: Block Websites & Stay Focused : version 5_3_8
Dark Reader : version 4_9_55
greaselion-12 : version 1_0
Zotero Connector : version 5_0_97
greaselion-0 : version 1_0
greaselion-13 : version 1_0
greaselion-4 : version 1_0
I don’t care about cookies : version 3_4_2
EndNote Click - Formerly Kopernio : version 2_3_2
PubPeer : version 1_6_2
Lazy Scholar : version 2_6_0
Wayback Machine : version 3_1
greaselion-8 : version 1_0
greaselion-1 : version 1_0
Office Editing for Docs, Sheets & Slides : version 142_547_553
Tab for a Cause : version 6_0
Microsoft Power Automate : version 2_0_12
greaselion-9 : version 1_0
Save to Google Drive : version 2_3_14
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader : version 1_59_0
Scite : version 1_34_1
Kindle Cloud Reader : version 1_7_0_1
Wolfram|Alpha (Official) : version 2_0
Text Blaze : version 2_8_1
URL in title : version 3_0_2
Malwarebytes Browser Guard : version 2_5_0
greaselion-5 : version 1_0
SwiftRead - read faster, learn more : version 3_13_3_2
Unpaywall : version 3_98
Smartertime : version 1_0_0_0
greaselion-10 : version 1_0
Volume Master : version 1_8_0
Brave Rewards : version 1_0_0
BlockerX - Block Distracting Websites : version 2_1_2
Web Scraper - Free Web Scraping : version 0_6_4
Grammarly: Grammar Checker and Writing App : version 14_1073_0
Zoom Scheduler : version 1_7_9
Forest: stay focused, be present : version 5_7_0
iorad - the tutorial builder : version 1_8_0_4624
Noisli : version 2_0_4
CryptoTokenExtension : version 0_9_74
Raindrop.io : version 6_5_9
Google Scholar Button : version 3_2
greaselion-6 : version 1_0
Loom – Free Screen Recorder & Screen Capture : version 5_3_8
Skype : version 10_2_0_9952
greaselion-2 : version 1_0
Briskine: Email templates for Gmail : version 7_5_7
Add to Microsoft To Do : version 0_20_0
Google Input Tools : version 10_2_0_0
Chrome PDF Viewer : version 1
greaselion-14 : version 1_0
greaselion-11 : version 1_0
Habitica SitePass : version 1_4_0
Brave : version 1_0_0
Office : version 2_2_11
Video Speed Controller : version 0_7_1
ActivityWatch Web Watcher : version 0_4_3
Save to Pocket : version 4_0_5
Brave Talk for Google Calendar : version 1_0_0
MetaMask : version 10_18_0
Google Hangouts : version 1_3_18
greaselion-15 : version 1_0
FasterWeb : version 1_1
Bitwarden - Free Password Manager : version 2022_8_0
Eigenfactorizer : version 0_99_5
Scribe — Documentation, SOPs & Screenshots : version 2_1_1
Mercury Reader : version 4_3_1_0
PDFCandy : version 1_0_2
Indeed for Chrome : version 0_9_149
Netflix Party is now Teleparty : version 3_9_1
WiseStamp email signature : version 4_43_24_0
The Beagle Button - Sustainable Shopping : version 0_0_37
Type Fu : version 4_8_0

@phytographer,
Wow that is quite the list of extensions. Well I can almost certainly guarantee you that one or more of the extensions you have installed is causing this issue.

The easiest way to test this would be to create a new, temp. browser profile and try to reproduce the issue (please ensure that you only have one Brave window open when testing — that one window being the newly created profilie). My guess is that it does not reproduce when using the new profile.

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