my contribution to buzz js audio library

[Ezelia]

I think buzzjs is one of the most known Javascript audio libraries for HTML5 game developers.

 

I use this library in my games, it's simple to use and just do the job ...

the library lack from one feature : multi-channels ! witch is very important in games.

 

I made a little contribution and posted a pull request witch will be integrated to the core library when its author (Jay Salvat) will have time to review it...

 

if you want multi-channel support for buzzjs library you can use my forked version here : https://github.com/alaa-eddine/buzz

 

[desp]

Does it manage audio looping without losing tempo?

[Ezelia]

I use it for all my games and never noticed that problem ...

 

btw, here is the official library website : http://buzz.jaysalvat.com/  you'll find detailled documentation and examples, but the version there does not support multi-channels yet.

 

I'm not the original author I just contributed with multi-channel patch

[BlueMagic]

You should check out howler.js, built by a friend of mine and seems to have taken over by storm. It's really fantastic and looks like an improvement on buzz.js.

 

http://goldfirestudios.com/blog/104/howler.js-Modern-Web-Audio-Javascript-Library

 

https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js

 

BTW I haven't just signed up to spam with this, I've been checking around these forums for the past few days and this is the first contribution I decided I could make It really is a good library, so check it out.

[benny!]

You should check out howler.js, built by a friend of mine and seems to have taken over by storm. It's really fantastic and looks like an improvement on buzz.js.

 

http://goldfirestudios.com/blog/104/howler.js-Modern-Web-Audio-Javascript-Library

 

https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js

 

BTW I haven't just signed up to spam with this, I've been checking around these forums for the past few days and this is the first contribution I decided I could make It really is a good library, so check it out.

 

I really can second that. Although I have not used any sound in my games so far - I had a quick test run with Howler and so far it seems to work pretty solid even on mobile devices.

[Ezelia]

@BlueMagic : I check howler library witch I find wonderful and having really interesting features, especially the way it handle sound sprites ... but during my tests it seemed to not support multi-channel sounds.

 

lets say sound.mp3 is a 4 seconds sound file

 

if I write

 

 

var sound = new Howl({  urls: ['sound.mp3']});sound.play();   //#1 setTimeout(function(){   sound.play();  // <=== this one dont seem to play since #1 is still playing}, 500); 

 

 

for games, it's a useful feature to play bullets or explosion sounds when you have many explosions at the same time for exemple

[EmployeeNumber8]

@BlueMagic

 

You should post a separate topic in the Audio forum for Howlerjs

[hrpatidar]

Hi,

 

your added version is not working in iPad and mobile browser.  Please help me, what can i do for multi-channel support in mobile browser ??