An AudioContext can now be explicitly closed, thereby releasing any hardware resources associated with the AudioContext. Without this, developers had to depend on garbage collection of the AudioContext to release hardware resources.

Demo

• https://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/tree/gh-pages/webaudio-audiocontext-close

Documentation

• http://webaudio.github.io/web-audio-api/#widl-AudioContext-close-Promise;
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AudioContext/close

Specification

Editor's draft

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink

Enabled by default (tracking bug) in:

• Chrome for desktop release 43

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: No signal
• Edge: No signal
• Safari: No signal
• Web Developers: Positive

Owners

• rtoy@chromium.org
• hongchan@chromium.org

Last updated on 2020-11-09