Audio Jedi, May the Sound be with You

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" summary

Built a browser audio editor in 12 hours of coding that uses the Web Audio API to slice waveforms, generate WAV blobs client‑side and upload to SoundCloud; it survives experimental API bugs by falling back to spec behavior, needs blob+XHR workarounds for export, and actually appears on SoundCloud during the demo. Claims: real‑time manipulation in the browser is practical today; caveats: Chrome support is best and microphone input and cross‑browser parity remain incomplete.

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" chapters (13)

1. 0:00Audio hacking on the web
2. 1:12Web audio limitations
3. 2:18Web Audio API overview
4. 4:49API frustrations
5. 8:04Reading the spec
6. 9:06Building Audio Jedi
7. 10:11Demo of Audio Jedi
8. 11:45Uploading to SoundCloud
9. 13:01Contributing to Web Audio API
10. 14:15Web audio future
11. 16:27Call to action
12. 17:32Closing remarks
13. 18:15Q&A

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