Gapless playback

What

• Reduce sound interuption between two songs

Currently, when a song is over, the src of the audio tag is changed, but the tag has to preload the file a bit. So there is a micro interruption of a few miliseconds.

• Crossfading option between song ?

How

~Instead of having a single Audio object, need to have an array of 3: [previous, current, next]. Then when playing next or previous, it should be faster, cause tracks will already be loaded + Pop/Shift audio when needed.~ not working :[

[martpie]

@s0 great to hear! #128 is a blocker for that though. I really want to solve this so I will try to find myself some time to work on AudioContext.

I would also like to try https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaElement/audioTracks as maybe Gapless playback comes baked in.

[s0]

I’ve been playing around with the WebAudio API in Musseks for a slightly different reason (accurate timestamps for synchronizing audio with lighting with my synesthesia project), which it turned out the HTML <audio> tag was insufficient for (see https://github.com/synesthesia-project/synesthesia/tree/master/precise-audio). I’d be willing to attempt implementing gapless playback in Museeks using web audio, though I cannot provide a timescale.