Prototyping 19 November 2012
The origin and theory of the cut-up, annotated audio, essay on ubuweb.
Shuffle
Javascript doesn't include a built-in function to shuffle an array, but there are lots of "recipes" to do it.
For instance: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6274339/how-can-i-shuffle-an-array-in-javascript
var shuffle = function (o) {
for (var j,x,i=o.length; i; j=parseInt(Math.random()*i), x=o[--i], o[i] = o[j], o[j] = x);
return o;
}
Part 1: Audio cut-up
The BBC World Service produces and releases an hourly "headlines" recording
- Audio feed (high quality)
- HTML5 media events (timeupdate, durationchange, seeked)
- Live demo of HTML5 player events
- HTML5 media events
Part 2: Headline scrambler
- Example of "walking the tree"
- DOM (childNodes, nodeType, nodeValue, nodeName?)
- Recursive tree / search
random play audio code
<html>
<head></head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<style></style>
<body>
<audio controls onpause="onpause()" ondurationchange="jump ()" src = "http://wsdownload.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/css/96mp3/latest/bbcnewssummary.mp3"></audio>
<script>
var a = document.getElementsByTagName('audio')[0]
var id
function jump (){ //var a = document.getElementsByTagName('audio')[0]
a.currentTime=Math.random()*a.duration a.play() id=setTimeout(jump,3000)
}
function onpause (){
clearTimeout(id)
}
</script>
</body > </html>