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

Specification link

Status: Specification being incubated in a Community Group

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink

Implementation status: Enabled by default (tracking bug)

Consensus & Standardization

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

Owners

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

Last updated on 2021-05-05