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I have a web-server that streams wav audio and I would like to play it in a web browser using the javascript audio API.

Here is my code :

function start() {

var request = new XMLHttpRequest();

request.open("GET", url, true);

request.responseType = "arraybuffer"; // Read as binary data

request.onload = function() {

var data = request.response;

playSound(data);

};

}

The problem here is that onload wont be called until the data is completely loaded which is not very convenient for streaming.

So I looked for another event and found onProgress but the problem is that request.response returns null if the data is not completely loaded.

Whats the correct way to play an audio stream with javascript ?

Thank's for your help.

Lukas