Show HN: Recreate NASA's Apollo Space Beeps (Quindar Tones) with Web Audio
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Re: Show HN: Recreate NASA's Apollo Space Beeps (Quindar Tones) with Web Audio
#2Pretty neat! I've heard those beeps a lot but never knew what they were for. Also, is it me, or do the sounds in the example recording sound the same? (frequency-wise?)
Re: Show HN: Recreate NASA's Apollo Space Beeps (Quindar Tones) with Web Audio
#3Wow, this really made me realize how crappy the state of web audio is today.
Excellent work otherwise though.
Re: Show HN: Recreate NASA's Apollo Space Beeps (Quindar Tones) with Web Audio
#4The tape recordings of Apollo sound a few dozen Hz lower than the web audio version. Is this because of an inconsistent tape driver?
Re: Show HN: Recreate NASA's Apollo Space Beeps (Quindar Tones) with Web Audio
#5Wow, this really made me realize how crappy the state of web audio is today. Excellent work otherwise though.
Why is it crappy? You create a sine oscillator, connect it to output, and call .play(). Or are you referring to issues not addressed in this article?
Re: Show HN: Recreate NASA's Apollo Space Beeps (Quindar Tones) with Web Audio
#6Wow, this really made me realize how crappy the state of web audio is today. Excellent work otherwise though.
Why is it crappy? You create a sine oscillator, connect it to output, and call .play(). Or are you referring to issues not addressed in this article?
The output quality is terrible, very crackly (on chrome and firefox). I don't see any reason for that in the code so I assume it's just due to the way web audio is in general. I can understand why it isn't used more often.
Re: Show HN: Recreate NASA's Apollo Space Beeps (Quindar Tones) with Web Audio
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is it crappy? You create a sine oscillator, connect it to output, and call .play(). Or are you referring to issues not addressed in this article?
The output quality is terrible, very crackly (on chrome and firefox). I don't see any reason for that in the code so I assume it's just due to the way web audio is in general. I can understand why it isn't used more often.
it sounds your processor can't keep up with your sound buffer. you can start Google chrome up with --audio-buffer-size=2048 to increase it
All audio technologies have buffer issues, it's a pretty basic problem. it's not unique to web audio.
Re: Show HN: Recreate NASA's Apollo Space Beeps (Quindar Tones) with Web Audio
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
The output quality is terrible, very crackly (on chrome and firefox). I don't see any reason for that in the code so I assume it's just due to the way web audio is in general. I can understand why it isn't used more often.
it sounds your processor can't keep up with your sound buffer. you can start Google chrome up with --audio-buffer-size=2048 to increase it All audio technologies have buffer issues, it's a pretty basic problem. it's not unique to web audio.
> it sounds your processor can't keep up with your sound buffer
Is this 1994? We've been playing fancy, high definition, multi-channel audio on our computers for decades now, and it's been ages since I've seen it impact the CPU.
> All audio technologies have buffer issues, it's a pretty basic problem. it's not unique to web audio.
I would say that in 2015, for most people it is unique to web audio. Generally speaking when someone wants to play audio on their computer it just works.
Re: Show HN: Recreate NASA's Apollo Space Beeps (Quindar Tones) with Web Audio
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
The output quality is terrible, very crackly (on chrome and firefox). I don't see any reason for that in the code so I assume it's just due to the way web audio is in general. I can understand why it isn't used more often.
it sounds your processor can't keep up with your sound buffer. you can start Google chrome up with --audio-buffer-size=2048 to increase it All audio technologies have buffer issues, it's a pretty basic problem. it's not unique to web audio.
Nope, that's not it, makes no difference.
Saying that all audio technologies have issues is a dodge. Technology is hard, software is about dealing with problems not about passing the buck and saying "sorry it sucks, it's hard and I gave up". Computer audio isn't exactly rocket science, tons of products get it right, browser makers just can't be bothered to invest in it.
Re: Show HN: Recreate NASA's Apollo Space Beeps (Quindar Tones) with Web Audio
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
it sounds your processor can't keep up with your sound buffer. you can start Google chrome up with --audio-buffer-size=2048 to increase it All audio technologies have buffer issues, it's a pretty basic problem. it's not unique to web audio.
> it sounds your processor can't keep up with your sound buffer Is this 1994? We've been playing fancy, high definition, multi-channel audio on our computers for decades now, and it's been ages since I've seen it impact the CPU. > All audio technologies have buffer issues, it's a pretty basic problem. it's not unique to web audio. I would say that in 2015, for most people it is unique to web audio. Generally speaking…
This is because "fancy, high definition, multi-channel audio" has >40ms latency, so you cannot compare it with Web Audio, which is meant to be real time like in digital music settings, where often <8ms is required. You clearly do not understand the problem you are claiming to be simple.