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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <title>Xhr2 and binary files + Web Audio API</title>
</head>
<body>
  <p>Example of using XHR2 and <code>xhr.responseType = 'arraybuffer';</code> to download a binary sound file
  and start playing it on user-click using the WebAudio API.</p>
  
    <p>
  <h2>Load file using Ajax / XR2 and the <code>arrayBuffer</code> response type</h2>
  <button onclick="downloadSoundFile('https://mainline.i3s.unice.fr/mooc/LaSueur.mp3');">Download and play example song</button>
    <button onclick="playSound()" disabled>Start</button>
  <button onclick="stopSound()" disabled>Stop</button>
  
<script> 
// WebAudio context
var context = new window.AudioContext();
var source = null;
var audioBuffer = null;
​
function stopSound() {
  if (source) {
    source.stop();
  }
}
​
function playSound() {
  // Build a source node for the audio graph
  source = context.createBufferSource();
  source.buffer = audioBuffer;
  source.loop = false;
  // connect to the speakers
  source.connect(context.destination);
  source.start(); // Play immediately.
}
​
function initSound(audioFile) {
  // The audio file may be a mp3, we must decode it before playing it from memory
  context.decodeAudioData(audioFile, function(buffer) {
    console.log("Song decoded!");
    // audioBuffer the decoded audio file we're going to work with
    audioBuffer = buffer;
    
    // Enable all buttons once the audio file is
    // decoded
    var buttons = document.querySelectorAll('button');
    buttons[1].disabled = false; // play
    buttons[2].disabled = false; // stop
    console.log("Binary file has been loaded and decoded, use play / stop buttons!")
  }, function(e) {
    console.log('Error decoding file', e);
  }); 
}
​
  // Load a binary file from a URL as an ArrayBuffer.
function downloadSoundFile(url) {
   var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
   xhr.open('GET', url, true);
​
   xhr.responseType = 'arraybuffer'; // THIS IS NEW WITH HTML5!
  
   xhr.onload = function(e) {
      console.log("Song downloaded, decoding...");
      initSound(this.response); // this.response is an ArrayBuffer.
   };
  
   xhr.onerror = function(e) {
    console.log("error downloading file");
   }
​
   xhr.send();
   console.log("Ajax request sent... wait until it downloads completely");
}  
</script>
</body>
</html>
 
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