Sound delay on a mobile device - even with "preload a sound"

[Onomatopoesie]

I have noticed that there is a significant delay when playing a sound on a mobile device. Of course I have set the settings under the resources to “preload a sound”. I also tried playing the sound on a channel with volume 0 before using it for the first time in the game. Still, there remains a delay of about 300 - 500 milliseconds when playing the sound. I can’t find a solution there. Are there any ideas? Or is there nothing to do on mobile devices? I haven’t noticed any latency in other games though. Theoretically it must be possible?

[Onomatopoesie]

It seems that the function “preload a sound” has no effect at all. I notice the same result whether the option is selected or not …

[Bouh]

Please read

[Resolved] Remove the "Play Music" Actions

It’s not that play music has a bug, they are just using different backends and most people will prefer the tradeoffs made by the sound actions. Advantages of the music actions: It uses streaming when playing the audio file, so if you have a large audio file that you want to play on a low performance device you can do so without taking too much RAM, and can start playing as soon as the first chunks of the file start to load It is older, technically more widely supported Advantages of the soun…

[Onomatopoesie]

Thank you for the quote. I have read it. But it does not explain the delay in playing a sound for me. I am not talking about the music. I am talking about real, short sound effects.