AudioContext.setSinkId

[ajay-rah]

Request for position on an emerging web specification

Information about the spec

• Spec Title: AudioContext.setSinkId()
• Spec URL: https://github.com/WebAudio/web-audio-api/pull/2498
• GitHub repository: https://github.com/WebAudio/web-audio-api

Design reviews and vendor positions

• TAG Design Review: https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/766
• Mozilla standards-positions issue: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/683
• Chrome Platform Status: https://chromestatus.com/feature/5190163462881280

Anything else we need to know

AudioContext.setSinkId sets the ID of the audio device to use for output. This allows the AudioContext to route audio to a connected output device of user's choosing.

[hober]

cc @jernoble @eric-carlson @jyavenard

[youennf]

This looks ok to me. HTMLMediaElement has a way to set its output and it makes sense to be consistent for AudioContext. It is a bit of a burden for a web page to set sinkId for all individual elements/contexts, maybe there should be something similar in AudioSession API.

[hamletmun]

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216641

[eric-carlson]

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216641

That is for HTMLMediaElement.setSinkId, not AudioContext.setSinkId