howler.js

Ah, I know the feeling. I also had a teacher who built his own things with very limited coding skills. Then I started making quick flashcard-style exercises and he was a lot of help testing and helping refine these. So now I have this site with various tools I built over the years: https://www.onlinemusictools.com/ Libs that helped: - https://github.com/saebekassebil/teoria for scales, chords etc - https://github.com/0xfe/vexflow for notation - https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js for playing piano samples. I used to DIY (because I love DIY), not even using WebAudio but recently tried howler and it's abstracting a few things I don't need to worry about - https://github.com/omnibrain/svguitar/ draw guitar fretboard. I recently did my first guitar-specific exercise and this was good. I even filed a feature request and the dev did it I'd b

I started Wander the Night together with sound artist SJF about a year ago during lockdown. From different sides of the world we collaborated to combine music and images to share the feeling of wandering far away lands and to capture the sensation of your first night in a new place. We have collaborated again to add a new city. This time we revisit Kyoto, a city that means different things for both of us and I think that comes through especially in the subtle soundscape that SJF has created. We used the howler.js Web Audio library which has proven to be very versatile: https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js

Cody Ellingham and I created this web audio player whilst stuck in the lockdown of our respective cities. It's an homage to that exciting feeling of your first night in an unfamiliar city; something which we all couldn’t easily experience in 2020. Six cities presented in six beautiful late-night photographs accompanied by six blissful soundtracks. For audio we used the howler.js Web Audio library: https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js

A little bit of a background on this project: Myself and SJF (who created the music) decided to build Wander the Night while we were stuck in lockdown. There is something special about that first night wandering around an unfamiliar city and we wanted to capture that essence, but during lockdown that all came to a stop. Back in 2019 we both had the opportunity to travel through some incredible places and it was those moments that inspired much of our work. We wanted to make something that people could listen / watch while working from home to bring back a little bit of that feeling. We used the howler.js Web Audio library which proved to be very versatile: https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js

Unfortunately, Safari does not support Opus-encoded audio using the Web Audio API. I actually had to push a hotfix earlier this week since Safari uses webkitAudioContext as opposed to AudioContext (which I wasn't checking for) - the site wouldn't even load. See this issue: https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js/issues/706 I could fallback to something like MP3, which is something I'm looking into. I really need to add some type of alert for users using Safari, at least for the time being. Thanks for reminding me!

We've been making steady improvements since 2.0 as you can see in the changelog: https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js/releases. Once I get a little more free time, I'm planning on adding and merging in some exciting new plugins and adding some highly requested features for the 2.1 and 2.2 releases (hopefully before the end of the year).

Hey, that's not quite true. ;-) I wrote most of our javascript on firefox. My firefox has no add-ons except the Firebug. Could it be one of your extensions? Have you tried refreshing it? Which version/OS? We use howler.js to play the sounds. I have to say that I was a bit surprised to find Chrome/Safari/IE can play mp3 but Firefox plays ogg. I even had to submit a patch[1] so that howler.js can work on firefox under some weird edge cases. [1]: https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js/pull/62