Player slows down in unfocused browser tab

grimmdude / MidiPlayerJS

♬ MIDI parser & player engine for browser or Node. As a parser converts MIDI events into JSON. Works well with single or multitrack MIDI files.

https://grimmdude.com/MidiPlayerJS/

MIT License

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Closed grimmdude closed 6 years ago

grimmdude commented 7 years ago

The player relies on setInterval, and in a browser if the tab is not in focus this does not work correctly. It slows down.

grimmdude commented 7 years ago

It looks like Chrome no longer slows down setInterval process when tab is not in focus.

grimmdude commented 6 years ago

I don't think there's much I can do to resolve this right now.