Re: context.currentTime is not advancing on Chrome/Canary

Thank you for your attention.

Just found that currentTime is increasing right after I created a node in
the context. (Thanks Kumar! Maybe this needs to be documented as well...) I
am using OSX and I didn't have to wait 6 seconds or so. The clock just
started moving immediately after the node creation.

Just out of curiosity, is this intentional to save resources until the
audio graph has any node in it?

Best,
Hongchan


On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Srikumar Karaikudi Subramanian <
srikumarks@gmail.com> wrote:

> The "currentTime" property stays at 0 for a brief period in the webkit
> implementation. This is most prominent on iOS6 where it can take up to 6
> seconds for currentTime to begin updating. The way I work around this is to
> wait using setTimeout until currentTime becomes > 0 before doing anything
> else. On PCs, this time is negligible in most cases, but shows up as
> multiple sounds getting triggered simultaneously on the rare occasion if
> the page starts playing sounds at or close to load time (it is difficult to
> get a reproducible case).
>
> I've just filed this -
> https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=159359
>
> best,
>  -Kumar
>
> On 5 Nov, 2012, at 2:39 AM, Chris Rogers <crogers@google.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Hongchan Choi <hongchan.choi@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I was experimenting with the "currentTime" variable from
>> webkitAudioContext but it stopped working with the newest version of
>> Chrome(Version 22.0.1229.94)/Canary(Version 25.0.1316.0 canary).
>>
>> I am constantly getting "0" - is this variable going to be removed in the
>> future?
>>
>
> No, it's not going to be removed.  I just tried Chrome Canary on OSX and
> didn't see any issues.  You might consider filing a chromium bug with more
> platform details if the problem persists:
> new.crbug.com
>
>
>
>>
>> Thank you so much in advance!
>>
>> Best,
>> Hongchan
>>
>>
>> --
>> Hongchan Choi
>>
>> Teaching Assistant / PhD Candidate
>> Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
>> Stanford University
>>
>> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~hongchan
>>
>>
>
>


-- 
Hongchan Choi

Teaching Assistant / PhD Candidate
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
Stanford University

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~hongchan