🎧 is-media-playing

determine if an HTML MediaElement is currently playing

There is not a specific attribute that will reveal whether a MediaElement is currently playing.

However, you can deduce this from the state of the other attributes. If all of these are true:

• currentTime > 0
• paused is false
• ended is false
• readyState doesn't indicate media stopped due to errors

then the MediaElement is currently playing.

based on this great stackoverflow answer:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6877403/how-to-tell-if-a-video-element-is-currently-playing/6877530#6877530

usage

import isPlaying from 'is-media-playing'


const a = new Audio('/audio/elevator.mp3')  // this could also be a video element
a.play()

// wait a while...

const result = isPlaying(a)   // result === true if playing, false otherwise