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Breakthroughs In HTML Audio Via Manipulation With JavaScript

Posted by timothy on from the infinite-malleability dept.

jamienk writes "Imagine if you could grab and manipulate audio with JavaScript just like you can images with Canvas. Firefox experimental builds let you do just that: crazy audio visualizations, a graphic equalizer, even text-to-speech, all in JavaScript! Work in progress; you need a special build of Firefox (videos available), being worked on via W3C."

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  1. Re:Firefox, eh? by marcansoft · · Score: 4, Informative

    Third, unlike Theora and H.264, Vorbis is actually much better than MP3.

  2. Re:Vorbis vs MP3 by Randle_Revar · · Score: 4, Informative

    Vorbis has smaller file sizes for the same quality or better quality for the same file size (q1 (~80kbps) is easily comparable to 128kbps MP3).
    Vorbis also supports up to 255 channels with official channel ordering specs up to 8 channels (7.1), while MP3 only supports mono and stereo.

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