Sound-effect-manager NPM

SoundEffectManager

Is just that. It's a simple sound effect manager for playing sounds using the awesome HTML 5 Web Audio API.

If you think I'm talking about <audio> tags, go read this: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webaudio/intro/

It's significantly better than <audio> tags for several reasons:

You don't have to create a tag for each sound you want to play
You can multiplex an effect without having to create duplicate tags
You can also control volume and add other effects

Part of the Ampersand.js toolkit for building clientside applications.

Installing

npm install sound-effect-manager

Using it

// just init the sound effect manager
var SoundEffectManager = require('sound-effect-manager');

var sm = new SoundEffectManager();

// load some files by passing it a url and a name
sm.loadFile('taps.mp3', 'taps');
sm.loadFile('rocket.wav', 'rocket');

// then play the sounds like so:
sm.play('rocket');

// or play a sound in looping mode:
sm.play('taps', true);

// and to stop a loop:
sm.stop('taps');

// that's it!