No more tap tap tap sounds: yay!
A few days ago the fantastic Fritz from the Netherlands told me that my Hands On Web Audio slides had stopping working and there was no sound coming out from them in Firefox.
https://twitter.com/fritzvd/status/686481500611735552
Which is pretty disappointing for a slide deck that is built to teach you about Web Audio!
I noticed that the issue was only on the introductory slide which uses a modified version of Stuart Memo's fantastic THX sound recreation-the rest of slides did play sound.
I built an isolated test case (source) that used a parameter-capable version of the THX sound code, just in case the issue depended on the number of oscillators, and submitted this funnily titled bug to the Web Audio component: Entirely Web Audio generated sound cuts out after a little while, or emits random tap tap tap sounds then silence.
I can happily confirm that the bug has been fixed in Nightly and the fix will hopefully be "uplifted" to DevEdition very soon, as it was due to a regression.
Paul Adenot (who works in Web Audio and is a Web Audio spec editor, amongst a couple tons of other cool things) was really excited about the bug, saying it was very edge-casey! Yay! And he also explained what did actually happen in lay terms: "you'd have to have a frequency that goes down very very slowly so that the FFT code could not keep up", which is what the THX sound is doing with the filter frequency automation.
I want to thank both Fritz for spotting this out and letting me know and also Stuart for sharing his THX code. It's amazing what happens when you put stuff on the net and lots of different people use it in different ways and configurations. Together we make everything more robust :-)
Of course also sending thanks to Paul and Ben for identifying and fixing the issue so fast! It's not been even a week! Woohoo!
Well done everyone! ??