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I'm getting no sound in Firefox 12 on Linux. On Chromium 18, this somewhat works, but with lots of clicking (not mouse clicking, audio file clicking) and distortion - it doesn't sound anything like zitterbewegung's song - and certain notes seem to randomly go dead (they stop making a sound when clicked).


That's very possible. It works really well on Firefox 12 on a mac. Chrome on mac has periodic issues (the delayed loading of each keys mitigates it somewhat)—looks like I need to do some debugging on Linux. Thanks for reporting this.

HTML5 audio has lots of problems, but the clicking and distortion also gives it that special pop and click sound that you wouldn't otherwise get. Future browsers will just sound too robotic on this piano :)

Additionally, higher notes often get distorted as a result of the low sampling rate. I just changed it to turn on "visual mode" by default (that lightning bolt thing in the top right). You can actually see where the low sampling rate starts to affect the resulting wave form—which is sort of fun to see.


re "That's very possible," anything which has happened is as possible as possible gets.

Sorry to be that guy. This is a very cool hack.




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