This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The gain property of the GainNode interface is an a-rate AudioParam representing the amount of gain to apply.
An AudioParam.
Note: Though the AudioParam returned is read-only, the value it represents is not.
See BaseAudioContext.createGain() for example code showing how to use an AudioContext to create a GainNode, which is then used to mute and unmute the audio by changing the gain property value.
| Specification |
|---|
| Web Audio API> # dom-gainnode-gain> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
gain |
24 | 12 | 25 | 15 | 7 | 25 | 25 | 14 | 7 | 1.5 | 4.4 | 7 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GainNode/gain