I have a web program which makes use of Web Audio API. The issue here is that i want to make it compatible for IE. Is there any alternate for the Web Audio API, so that i can make the same code run on IE specifically?
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Which versions of IE? – Evan Knowles Oct 09 '14 at 09:53
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Try [howler.js](http://goldfirestudios.com/blog/104/howler.js-Modern-Web-Audio-Javascript-Library) – Brett Gregson Oct 09 '14 at 09:53
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1IE 11 for now. They are saying it "MIGHT" work for the next version of IE – Navneet Sinha Oct 10 '14 at 17:04
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If you don't mind ignoring mobile, you can try Flash. They have a Sound Object which supports dynamically generated sound. – notthetup Oct 14 '14 at 07:53
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I need an oscillator function, which will generate sounds – Navneet Sinha Oct 15 '14 at 10:08
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What are your needs? If you need to do dynamic synthesis, audio routing, etc, you will only be able to achieve that with the Web Audio API, so your IE users are out of luck.
However, if all you need to do is play audio files, then I would recommend that you use howler.js. Howler has great compatibility across different browsers and operating systems, including various versions of IE.
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Ya the issue is that I am dynamically generating sounds, that's the issue. – Navneet Sinha Oct 10 '14 at 16:19
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I've read that the next version of IE will support the Web Audio API, but I don't know when that will be. – Raphael Serota Oct 14 '14 at 14:02
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I generated audio clips of various frequencies and called them using howler and some more script. Thanks. – Navneet Sinha May 29 '15 at 18:43
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Microsoft have been working on implementing the web audio API, it looks like a preview implementation is available. https://status.modern.ie/webaudioapi If you can wait until the next version of IE which I believe is expected to be released with Windows 10, which should be out this year IIRC, it may not be worth taking the time to implement an alternative.
That said, to answer your question, there's no way that I could find to generate audio with an oscillator in the web without the Web Audio API other than writing flash code, which has its own major disadvantages.
Minor note: you could possibly hack the html5 audio node to play back audio buffers that you generate in javascript code, but keeping everything in sync and preventing jumps in the waveform would be an awful task.
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What I did was that I wrote a python script to generate wav audio clips by entering the various frequencies as I desired, loaded them onto the server, and then called those audio clips via the javascript using howler. Doesn't work like a charm, but somehow solves the purpose. – Navneet Sinha May 29 '15 at 18:42