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javascript audio library
SHOW HN2015
46points
16comments
#616of 2,565 in 2015
Top 25%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
0 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score -0.40.
Execution: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Commenters find the idea awesome
From 1 comment
Awesome! Does anyone know of a similar library for Ogg/Opus?
nfriedly on HN
Objections
MP3 is patented and hosting an encoder may carry royalty liability
From 2 comments
Seriously, MP3? Not only is it old and poor quality compared to modern alternatives, by hosting an MP3 encoder it appears you are liable for a minimum royalty of $15,000…
AshleysBrain on HNI work for a children's book company and wrote something similar for recording children reading aloud. Looking into the licensing on distributing an MP3 encoder to hundreds of…
donatj on HN
Vorbis and Opus are better quality and free
From 2 comments
Seriously, MP3? Not only is it old and poor quality compared to modern alternatives, by hosting an MP3 encoder it appears you are liable for a minimum royalty of $15,000…
AshleysBrain on HNSpeex has been deprecated. You should consider Opus instead.
dublinben on HN
Works only in Chrome and Firefox currently
From 1 comment
Which is more than what the library supports right now > The library just work in Chrome and Firefox right now. :-)
fabrixxm on HN
Requests
Streaming output over a websocket
From 1 comment
Sweet, thanks. I actually want a streaming solution to send the result over a websocket, but this looks like a good starting point.
nfriedly on HN
Ogg/Opus equivalent library
From 1 comment
Awesome! Does anyone know of a similar library for Ogg/Opus?
nfriedly on HN
Questions
Is there a similar library for Ogg/Opus
From 1 comment
Awesome! Does anyone know of a similar library for Ogg/Opus?
nfriedly on HN
Alternatives named
HTML5 MediaRecorder
From 1 comment
HTML5 MediaRecorder
bhuztez on HN
iago (Ogg/Vorbis in JavaScript)
From 1 comment
I put together iago[1] a little while back, from a few people's work, including a great article[2] by Hot Cashew on how he uses Emscripten to transpile the Ogg/Vorbis library to…
itsjoesullivan on HN