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WebAudio: OfflineAudioContext.startRendering() returns a promise

Category

Multimedia

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 42)

Intent stage

None

Summary

The startRendering() method for an OfflineAudioContext now returns a promise that is resolved with the rendered audio when rendering is done.

Standards & signals

• Specification: http://webaudio.github.io/web-audio-api/
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=420109

Docs: http://webaudio.github.io/web-audio-api/#widl-OfflineAudioContext-startRendering-Promise-AudioBuffer

Samples: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/tree/gh-pages/webaudio-offlinecontext-rendering

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