This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The numberOfChannels property of the AudioBuffer interface returns an integer representing the number of discrete audio channels described by the PCM data stored in the buffer.
An integer.
// Stereo
const channels = 2;
// Create an empty two second stereo buffer at the
// sample rate of the AudioContext
const frameCount = audioCtx.sampleRate * 2.0;
const myArrayBuffer = audioCtx.createBuffer(2, frameCount, audioCtx.sampleRate);
button.onclick = () => {
// Fill the buffer with white noise;
// just random values between -1.0 and 1.0
for (let channel = 0; channel < channels; channel++) {
// This gives us the actual ArrayBuffer that contains the data
const nowBuffering = myArrayBuffer.getChannelData(channel);
for (let i = 0; i < frameCount; i++) {
// Math.random() is in [0; 1.0]
// audio needs to be in [-1.0; 1.0]
nowBuffering[i] = Math.random() * 2 - 1;
}
}
console.log(myArrayBuffer.numberOfChannels);
};
| Specification |
|---|
| Web Audio API> # dom-audiobuffer-numberofchannels> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
numberOfChannels |
14 | 12 | 25 | 15 | 6 | 18 | 25 | 14 | 6 | 1.0 | 4.4.3 | 6 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AudioBuffer/numberOfChannels