Web Audio streaming with fetch API

web-audio-fetch-stream.js

//
// loads remote file using fetch() streams and "pipe" it to webaudio API
// remote file must have CORS enabled if on another domain
//
// mostly from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20475982/choppy-inaudible-playback-with-chunked-audio-through-web-audio-api
// 

function play(url) {
  var context = new (window.AudioContext || window.webkitAudioContext)();
  var audioStack = [];
  var nextTime = 0;

  fetch(url).then(function(response) {
    var reader = response.body.getReader();
    function read() {
      return reader.read().then(({ value, done })=> {
        context.decodeAudioData(value.buffer, function(buffer) {
          audioStack.push(buffer);
          if (audioStack.length) {
              scheduleBuffers();
          }
        }, function(err) {
          console.log("err(decodeAudioData): "+err);
        });
        if (done) {
          console.log('done');
          return;
        }
        read()
      });
    }
    read();
  })

  function scheduleBuffers() {
      while ( audioStack.length) {
          var buffer    = audioStack.shift();
          var source    = context.createBufferSource();
          source.buffer = buffer;
          source.connect(context.destination);
          if (nextTime == 0)
              nextTime = context.currentTime + 0.01;  /// add 50ms latency to work well across systems - tune this if you like
          source.start(nextTime);
          nextTime += source.buffer.duration; // Make the next buffer wait the length of the last buffer before being played
      };
  }
}

var url = 'http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/audio/demos/beats1.wav?adazdaz'
play(url);

Not to confuse everyone,
reader.read().then( { value, done } ) expects 'value' to be of type Uint8Array according to body.getReader() docs, so it's not meant to have 'buffer' key.
So check it's type before trying to access it's props.

I am getting Unable to decode audio data.

I'm getting Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: Unable to decode audio data using your code in Chrome console on http://www.metadecks.org/

I think that decodeAudioData cannot be called without audio header. So the first chunk is decoded, because it has the wav header readed from file, next chunks ( raw pcm in this case ) fails to decode because of the missing header.

I tried your example，I also found that "decodeAudioData" cannot be called without audio header，So your example is problematic.

read() can be improved:

function read() {
        return reader.read().then(({ value, done })=> {
          if (done) {
            console.log('done');
            return;
          }else{
            console.log(value,done);
            context.decodeAudioData(value.buffer, function(buffer) {
              audioStack.push(buffer);
              if (audioStack.length) {
                  scheduleBuffers();
              }
            }, function(err) {
              console.log("err(decodeAudioData): "+err);
            });
          }
          read()
        });
      }

Otherwise I get a undefined error

It works on Chrome but not Firefox. The error on firefox: TypeError: response.body is undefined.

Also, how do we pause this?

I'm getting Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: Unable to decode audio data using your code in Chrome console on http://www.metadecks.org/

were you able to solve this?

any update i am also getting the same issue in firefox ?