Re: decodeAudioData and resampling

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Patrick Borgeat
<patrick.borgeat@gmail.com>wrote:

> Is there a way to circumvent this? For example if I don't want to decode
> an audio file for playback but just to get the channelData to do some
> calculations or something. createBuffer does sample rate conversion as well.
>

Not currently, but we could add an extra optional parameter to these
methods.


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> cheers,
> Patrick
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> 2012/12/4 Chris Rogers <crogers@google.com>
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>> Hi Ehsan, sorry the spec isn't clear about this.  The intended behavior
>> is for the implementation to resample the decoded audio data to the
>> AudioContext sample-rate as part of the decodeAudioData() operation.  This
>> is so that we don't have to resample the data at playback time, which can
>> get very expensive especially with several sources playing back at the same
>> time.  Sample-rate converting up-front allows us to use higher-quality
>> sample-rate conversion algorithms, since it's easier to afford the
>> expensive algorithms.
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