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Bug 17320 - Exclusive access to audio hardware
Summary: Exclusive access to audio hardware
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: AudioWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Web Audio API (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: TBD
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
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Reported: 2012-06-05 11:08 UTC by Jer Noble
Modified: 2014-10-28 17:17 UTC (History)
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Description Jer Noble 2012-06-05 11:08:32 UTC
http://www.w3.org/2011/audio/track/issues/15

Raised by: Jer Noble
On product: Web Audio API

On the mailing list, Jer Noble proposed an addition to the WebAudio API which would allow the API to be implemented on platforms which allow exclusive access to audio hardware.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-audio/2012AprJun/0122.html

The proposed changes:

* Add the AudioContext.startRendering() method to the spec.
* Add a new AudioContext.renderState property to the spec.
  + Values:
    - RENDERING
    - INTERRUPTED
    - IDLE

Chris Rogers questioned why the startRendering() method was necessary:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-audio/2012AprJun/0124.html

Jer Noble replied with a use case demonstrating its use:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-audio/2012AprJun/0126.html
Comment 1 Chris Rogers 2012-10-05 21:35:42 UTC
Jer, is this something you still believe is important to consider?  I know iOS has been shipping for a little while and didn't know if this was still an issue.
Comment 2 Jer Noble 2012-10-05 21:36:44 UTC
Yes I believe it is still an issue.  It's unfortunate that we weren't able to resolve this prior to iOS 6, but I believe this is still important to resolve for future implementations.
Comment 3 Olivier Thereaux 2014-10-28 17:14:55 UTC
Web Audio API issues have been migrated to Github. 
See https://github.com/WebAudio/web-audio-api/issues
Comment 4 Olivier Thereaux 2014-10-28 17:17:53 UTC
Closing. See https://github.com/WebAudio/web-audio-api/issues for up to date list of issues for the Web Audio API.