electron-audio-conversion

A promise-based library for loading audio files into HTML5 audio. Uses the dataurl, id3 and mp3duration libraries.

Installation

npm install electron-audio-conversion

Usage

This library comes with 4 functions:

getSongDuration(filePath) -- Takes a filepath and returns the duration of that song.

getSongTags(track) -- Takes a track and returns the title, album and artist for that track.

createSongObject(filePath) -- Takes a filepath, creates a new object, calls getSongDuration and getSongTags and returns a promise with a song object that has the track, title, album and artist.

createSongUri(filePath, mimetype) -- Takes a filepath and creates a dataUri for that file. This dataUri is handed over to the HTML5 audio element to play the song.

In practice you'll likely only ever need createSongObject and createSongUri but you have access to the others if you need them.

Why?

This library makes it easier to pull audio files from the local file system and play them in the browser. We built this library to help with an Electron audio-player app and needed a way to create a playlist of song objects and then be able to make dataurl's on the fly for those songs as they're played.