electron-webaudio-decode: Audio Decoder for Electron App

Node.js package for decoding audio and playing it in an Electron App with WebAudio API.

It allows you to play a large variety of Audio files unsupported with the default WebAudioAPI included in Electron (Chromium)

This package use aurora.js for parsing and decoding audio files.

var audioCtx = new window.AudioContext();

function play(audiobuf) {
    var source = audioCtx.createBufferSource();
    source.buffer = audiobuf;
    source.connect(audioCtx.destination);
    source.start();
}
getAudioBuffer("audio/my.wav").then(function(audioBuffer) {
    play(audioBuffer);
});

Default Audio format supported

• Wav
• Aiff

Optional formats

Those format are Node.js module for Aurora.js :

• mp3
• vorbis
• opus
• AAC
• FLAC
• ALAC (Apple Lossless)

To be able to play those format, just install the package (see below)

mp3

npm install mp3

vorbis

npm install vorbis.js

opus

npm install opus.js

FLAC

npm install flac.js

AAC

npm install aac

ALAC (Apple Lossless)

npm install alac

Other formats

If you know other Aurora.js plugins, tell me in the issues, or just do a pull ;)