Web audio

The new web audio API defines a way to play audio right into the browser without the need for a single plugin. For a high level experience, we can simply add a few audio tags throughout our HTML page, and the browser takes care of displaying a player for the user to interact with and play, pause, stop, rewind, fast forward, and adjust the volume. Alternatively, we can use the JavaScript interface available, and either control the audio tags on the page with it, or achieve much more powerful and complex tasks.

One key detail to remember about browser support and the web audio API, is that different browsers support different file formats. When defining an audio tag, similar to an image tag, we specify the path to the source file. The difference is that with audio, we can specify multiple sources for the same file (but different formats), then the browser can choose the file it supports, or the best option it has, in case it supports multiple file formats. Currently there are three...