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WebAudio: suspend/resume

Category
Multimedia
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 41)
Intent stage
None

Summary

Supports suspending and resuming an AudioContext to allow applications to pause the audio device when needed. This reduces CPU usage and power consumption when audio is suspended.

Standards & signals

Docs: http://webaudio.github.io/web-audio-api/#the-audiocontext-interface http://webaudio.github.io/web-audio-api/#methods

Samples: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/tree/gh-pages/webaudio-suspend-resume

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