Development Tools for Ubiquitous Music on the World Wide Web

Abstract

This chapter discusses two approaches to provide a general-purpose audio programming support for Ubiquitous Music web applications. It reviews the current state of web audio development and discusses some previous attempts at this. We then introduce a JavaScript version of Csound that has been created using the Emscripten compiler and discuss its features and limitations. In complement to this, we look at a Native Client implementation of Csound, which is a fully functional version of Csound running in Chrome and Chromium browsers.