AnkiDroid 2.21.0 Changelog

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@3ter

I’ve got a field Sound on my note which I previously added as <!-- {{Sound}} -->, which before added the sound but hid the play button.

This stopped working in Anki 25.02 because Anki changed how it handled HTML comments. See:

AnkiMobile 25.02.1 audio not playing

Dug around a little bit and traced it back to Add support for html comments to template syntax (#3662) · ankitects/anki@ef94bf1 The Chinese support addon places the sound tag in a comment in the default card type, see: <!-- {{Sound}}--> This is Hyrum’s Law at its finest and feels a little tricky. The addon arguably shouldn’t be expecting tags in comments to be templatized and parsed, instead it should hide the sound field in an element with display: none… but the damage is already done. I w…

I’m not sure what is going on with it working Front → Back but not Back → Front once you take it out of the comment though.