Re: Decoding audio w/o an AudioContext object

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Chris Rogers <crogers@google.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Marcus Geelnard <mage@opera.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> AudioContext provides two methods for decoding audio (both the
>> synchronous createBuffer and the asynchronous decodeAudioData), and people
>> will quite likely want to use these methods for decoding audio files
>> without actually wanting to play them using an AudioContext.
>>
>> Is there anything preventing us to allow users to do things like:
>>
>> function decoded(data) {
>>   // Dostuff
>> }
>>
>> AudioContext.decodeAudioData(rawData, decoded);
>>
>>
>> Also, both versions of the createBuffer method could be treated similarly.
>>
>> Any opinions?
>>
>
> Hi Marcus, one reason that the methods are based on the AudioContext is
> because the audio data needs to be decoded *and* sample-rate converted to
> the correct sample-rate for the AudioContext.  So, for example, on most Mac
> OS X machines this would usually be 44.1KHz, but most Windows machines
> would be 48KHz.  But depending on settings these values could be different.
>  The methods will *do the right thing* and sample-rate convert
> appropriately.
>

Maybe add an argument for the sample rate so this

ctx.decodeAudioData(rawData, ...)

would become

AudioContext.decodeAudioData(rawData, ctx.sampleRate, ...)

Cheers,
Jussi