JavaScript Library for Objective Sound Programming

http://mohayonao.github.com/timbre/

by matsuu • 14 years ago

83 15 14 years ago

mohayonao.github.com

wcarss• 14 years ago

This is insanely cool.

fruchtose• 14 years ago

Awesome examples. It would be nice to get support for formats besides WAV, but that's future work. Is MP3 decoding proprietary, or just encoding?

jamescun• 14 years ago

Afaik both encoding and decoding require a license. However there is a mutual agreement from patent holders that there is no license required for FOSS decoders, allowing things like VLC to function without a license.

md224• 14 years ago

http://jsmad.org

gliese1337• 14 years ago

To expand a bit: mp3 decoding in JavaScript has been done, and it works pretty well, but not perfectly / not on all files. I've used it and stuff derived from it with quite satisfactory results in situations where I can control all of the inputs it will be used with. Adding basic support for mp3 decoding to this could be just a matter of integrating JSMad, if that's the way they felt like going about it, but adding really robust, efficient, gonna work all the time support would require a significant investment of additional effort.

I don't know what the state of the art is for mp3 encoding in JavaScript, if there is one.

mahmud• 14 years ago

Beautiful.

burnvictim• 14 years ago

This is super cool! Is HTML5 audio in a pretty decent state at this point as far as reliability?

epaik• 14 years ago

Wow, I'm seriously impressed.

I'm inspired to make a game using this library I think!

koglerjs2• 14 years ago

Excellent. I will definitely use this. In fact, I'm commenting largely to bookmark this.

delinka• 14 years ago

When you upvote a headline, it'll show up in your "saved stories" in your profile. Excellent bookmarking method.

koglerjs2• 14 years ago

HN is the only place I know that downvotes for ignorance. Is my comment really more irritating than the other comments that are one-word compliments?

smagch• 14 years ago

I was thrilled when Flash had sound api quite a long time ago.

I'm now much more thrilled to see this. A lot of nerdy people will publish free open source synthesizer over the next few years.

We need javascript plugin interface like VST.

liamja• 14 years ago

Reaper supports plugins written in JS

http://www.reaper.fm/technical.php

gosub• 14 years ago

    T("+", T("*", c_env = T("adsr", 20, 1740, 0.5),
                       T("+", c1 = T("konami"),
                              c2 = T("konami"),
                              c3 = T("konami"))),
                T("*", b_env = T("adsr", 0, 220),
                       b0 = T("pulse"))).play();

This is what happens when your programming language does not let you specialize math operations, or you lack a decent macro system.

VMG• 14 years ago

Not necessarily. You could write nice libraries utilizing the object notation and method chaining, just look at jQuery.

JavaScript Library for Objective Sound Programming

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