Looking for alpha testers and feedback

[katspaugh]

Are you feeling adventurous and want to try the next shiny thing? I've got you. 🎁

I've just released an alpha of an experimental version of wavesurfer.js and am looking for testers and feedback.

Install it from NPM:

yarn add wavesurfer.js@alpha

What is this experimental version?

In the past few days, I've been working on a completely new version of wavesufer.js written in TypeScript (codename: wavesurfer-ts). It has a much more minimal API than the current mainline version and only one plugin so far: the Regions.

Some things have been omitted to reduce the code complexity:

• WebAudio "backend": there's no AudioBufferSourceNode playback anymore, only MediaElementSourceNode.
• Some of the options, events and methods. For example, instead of the mediaControls and mediaType options, you can just pass an existing media element with those options specified on the element itself.

Future development

I'm planning to add some of the missing options e.g. splitChannels, as well as plugins such as the Spectrogram, Cursor, Playhead etc. Some of them might make sense to combine as they share a lot of functionality.

Tutorial

Apart from the new code, I've made a new website centered around practical examples:

https://wavesurfer-ts.pages.dev/tutorial

You can live-edit the example code ala codepen/codesandbox.

There's also automatically generated documentation:

• Options
• Methods
• Events

This will be extended to be more human-readable and useful.

Feedback

I'm looking for feedback from the community on what options, methods, events and plugins you all want to keep. As well as any feedback you might have in general. Thank you!