Support more file formats

[icidasset]

HTML5 Audio element supports these as well: wav, ogg, webm.

Note: UI should show notification when audio element in (older) browser does not support the file format.

I don’t know if there’s a Javascript library out there that can read any of these file formats.

[icidasset]

Will implement Borewit/music-metadata#107 when available.

[Borewit]

WebM is a video format, if you open an issue and include at least one sample (with metadata), I can check if I can make it working. Opus, which is as well Ogg based, is supported.

Are you sure you need browser support? Most Electron based apps use the ability of Node.js to read the metadata:

• https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent-desktop/blob/master/src/renderer/webtorrent.js
• https://github.com/akabekobeko/examples-electron/blob/master/audio-player/src/js/main/MusicMetadataReader.js
• https://github.com/KeitIG/museeks
• https://github.com/IrosTheBeggar/mStream

[icidasset]

Thanks @Borewit ! Yeah I would need browser support. I have a web (ie. non-electron) version of my application, the native version is just an extra. I only use node.js when there's no other way to do something. I'm probably even going to switch to a Haskell library instead of Electron somewhere in the future.

[Borewit]

@icidasset:

Haskell, I used that on university a long time ago. But that is an alternative to JavaScript, not to Electron directly.

With a bit of tweaking you should already be able to use music-metadata in the browser.

Using webpack, you should filter out the Node fs dependency.

Are you willing to give it a try and share your experience? That would help to closing the gap.

[icidasset]

@Borewit Yeah, definitely. That's why I said "a Haskell library". I was thinking of https://github.com/lettier/webviewhs

I'm going to give it a try, thanks! 😄
Not a webpack user here though, but I'll see what I can come up with.

[Borewit]

You maybe interested in the experimental browser version: music-metadata-browser

[icidasset]

@Borewit Awesome thanks! Will check it out soon, taking a little break at the moment.

[icidasset]

TODO: Implement music-metadata-browser in v2 as soon as Borewit/music-metadata-browser#4 is ready.

[Borewit]

Should be good to go, let me know if you experience any issues.

[icidasset]

@Borewit Thanks for all the hard work you do! Really appreciated. But I was actually waiting on support for the range header 😅 I need to scan over 200GB of music, so it would be quite unfeasible to download all of that.

[Borewit]

Check: streaming-http-token-reader.

Looking forward to hear from you is it meets your requirements.

[icidasset]

Implemented in #128