Alexa Skill, Audio play back is taking time

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i'm working on Alexa skill with audio play list.The audios are placed on same S3 bucket and i'm using URL of that particular location (with cloud-front enabled).

The issue is that some audios take time to start (i.e. 5 seconds), whereas, some start quickly. There's no difference in file size or file location, and same code is being used for all the audios. Although, i guess it's some issue with Alexa audio player.

My code to play audio is as:

this.response.audioPlayerPlay('REPLACE_ALL', url, token, null, offset);

Please note, i'm working in node.js, my end point is a lambda function and i'm using 'alexa-sdk' (node package)

I'm unable to understand the issue. Please help.

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Hi @Fayza , Even i'm working on Alexa audio skill, and being newer in this i am not able to find any suitable example for the same can you please provide me some working code example which is using Audio directive of Alexa, i'll appreciate your help. - Pardeep Jain
@PardeepJain, this link helped me as starting point: github.com/alexa/skill-sample-nodejs-audio-player - Fayza Nawaz
Thanks for reference, but i already checked this, faced lot of errors while customization that's why asking for your code. anyways thanks :) - Pardeep Jain

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I updated the audio files, and everything is working like a charm now. I believe, it was audio's issue and not player's.