Seeking through a streamed MP3 file with HTML5 <audio> tag

Question

Hopefully someone can help me out with this.

I\'m playing around with a node.js server that streams audio to a client, and I want to create an HTML5 player. Right no

Answer 1

From what I understand you want the player to allow the user to jump to parts of the audio/video that haven't buffered yet, something like what Vimeo / YouTube players do.. Tbh I'm not sure if this is possible, as I've looked at some of the examples of html5 medial elements and they just didn't allow me to seek to unbuffered parts :(

If you want to seek through the buffered part - then it's not a problem. In fact - you're creating a problem for yourself here, as far as I understand. You want to stream the file, and what this does is makes the player think you have some kind of live stream out there. If you just sent the file directly - you wouldn't have this issue, because the player will be able to start playing before it loaded the whole file. This works fine with both audio and video elements, and I've confirmed this behaviour in both Chrome and FF :)

Hope this helps!