Title: Loading time
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Loading time

 *  Resolved [Music Mastering](https://wordpress.org/support/users/music-mastering/)
 * (@music-mastering)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-time-3/)
 * The plugin is causing slow loading of the page. Is there any updates to fix that.
 * Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/audio-album/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/audio-album/)

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 *  Plugin Author [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/)
 * (@numeeja)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-time-3/#post-5143258)
 * The loading speed has always depended on the overall page weight. I added a fix
   in version 1.0.3 which delays the audio players from being displayed until the
   page has fully loaded. This is to prevent a flash of unstyled audio players before
   the CSS is applied.
 * The perception may be that the page is loading slowly when this fix is used, 
   but in reality the page is taking the same time to load as before.
 * If you try version 1.0.1 of the plugin from [https://wordpress.org/plugins/audio-album/developers/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/audio-album/developers/)
   you can compare how it was without that fix.
 *  Thread Starter [Music Mastering](https://wordpress.org/support/users/music-mastering/)
 * (@music-mastering)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-time-3/#post-5143278)
 * Great! The page is loading much better now with 1.0.1 but the volume level is
   not set to the maximum. Is there away or a code to lock it to the maximum?
 * Thank you,
 *  Plugin Author [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/)
 * (@numeeja)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-time-3/#post-5143288)
 * The volume level shouldn’t be any different so I’m not sure what is happening.
 * If you want to try the latest version but without the fix to hide the players
   until the page is fully loaded — instead of using an old version, you can add
   the following line to your child theme’s functions.php:
 *     ```
       add_action('wp_head', 'cc_hide_audio_until_load');
       ```
   
 * you’d also need to add the following to your child theme’s stylesheet
 *     ```
       .track {
       	display:block!important;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Music Mastering](https://wordpress.org/support/users/music-mastering/)
 * (@music-mastering)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-time-3/#post-5143307)
 * I tried both 1.0.1 and 1.0.4. The old 1.0.1 is loading better for me, the only
   thing is that the volume is not set to the maximum, but on 1.0.4 the volume is
   set to the maximum.
 *  Plugin Author [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/)
 * (@numeeja)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-time-3/#post-5143356)
 * I’ve had a chance to look at this now & appears that the difference in start 
   volume is a result of delaying the audioplayers from being shown to fix the unstyled
   issue – although this is not by design.
 * The audioalbum plugin acts as a visual wrapper to default WordPress audio embed
   feature which uses the mediaelement.js script, so any default behaviour is inherited
   from there.
 * In the old version (1.0.1) of the plugin without the fix described earlier, it
   seems that the default start volume of 0.8 built into WordPress was honoured,
   however this is being overidden when the fix is applied. This is not by design
   and I had not noticed it until now.
 * I believe this value is hard-wired into WordPress in /wordpress/wp-includes/js/
   mediaelement/mediaelement-and-player.min.js I have not found a way so far of 
   setting this value in the shortcode or otherwise, except as an unintended consequence
   of hiding the players and then showing them once the page has loaded, so I am
   not able to suggest a workaround.
 *  Thread Starter [Music Mastering](https://wordpress.org/support/users/music-mastering/)
 * (@music-mastering)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-time-3/#post-5143389)
 * Thank you,

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-time-3/#post-5143389)
 * Status: resolved