streaming music

[ray007]

I was so far successful using howler to play either local or remote files, but didn't manage to play music from a streaming source, i.e. internet radio.
Is this not supported or could I get to see a working example for that?

[thomasduenser]

Same question, is it possible to stream music with howler?

[goldfire]

You should be able to do it like this:

var stream = new Howl({
    src: ['...'],
    ext: ['mp3'],
    autoplay: true,
    html5: true
});

Note that you must use HTML5 Audio to stream, it isn't possible with Web Audio since the full audio must be loaded and decoded first.

[ray007]

Thank you, that worked.
But what do I do if I don't know the stream is in mp3 format? In my case the target url is customer data and may or may not be streaming data...

Edit: stopping the sound apparently doesn't work for streams started playing with the html5 option set to true

[goldfire]

Thanks, the stopping issue has been fixed in bb903a6. As for knowing the format, there's no way I'm aware of getting that on the client. There's certainly ways to determine that on the server side though.

[oms36]

Friend, I have an icecast server, how can I use your Howler.js to create a small radio station in my workplace?

[Ivan8R]

goldfire, please, can you show to us working example of streaming?
var stream = new Howl({ src: ['...'], ext: ['mp3'], autoplay: true, html5: true });

I'm write understand that we need to upload data to <audio></audio>, in src: getelementbyId ?

[Fredbam]

@goldfire Is it possible to call a pls file to stream radio stations ?

[mblackritter]

@Fredbam, ah yeah, this works well, at least with the current version, #OhHellboyYeah! 😻 I was also pleasingly surprised, as I was already worried I'd to parse that myself, but I think that's just HTML5-Audio supporting .pls! 😹💦