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Creator of the Zoom Escaper here... Sadly it relies on a web audio feature that's chrome only. Also too bad because I use firefox as my primary browser.

• permalac 6y ago
  Well done. If someone wants to use this they should have no problem running in chrome.
  • dylan604 6y ago
    Sure, morals are no problem to get over. But hey, what's the price of privacy to run some software?
    • bottled_poe 6y ago
      Oh I’m sorry, did you pay for the development effort?
      • dylan604 6y ago
        Of Chrome? I sure did. All of that information that Google has collected about me over the years without my say so has generated income for them.
        • slig 6y ago
          If you ever used any of their services you agreed on a bunch of ToS.
          • dylan604 6y ago
            Does that include all of those sites that include GA/GFonts/etc that I have zero control over? You don't have to use G/FB services to still be a money generator for them. To be a reader of this site and still not understand that, one must either be on ostrich or a new reader.
            • slig 6y ago
              You do have control over, just don't load things from them. Google "no-script", "uBlock", etc.
              • dylan604 6y ago
                Your biological and technological distinctiveness have already been absorbed by G if you seriously use the term Google in daily vernacular for search. tsk tsk. You are the borg.
                • slig 6y ago
                  Come on, it was a joke given the context of our conversation.
                  • dylan604 6y ago
                    And you think a star trek borg reference wasn't?
                    • slig 6y ago
                      My bad, I did not catch that.
• fireattack 6y ago
  Could you elaborate a little bit? Just curious about the technical side of creating this cool application.
  • runarberg 6y ago
    I’m interesting in knowing as well which standard in particular is being used which only Chrome supports. I was under the impression that the Web Audio API[1] was fairly well supported cross all modern browsers. 1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Audio_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Audio_A...
  • saaaam 6y ago
    It's the setSinkId function which let's you select an audio output (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaElement/setSinkId https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaEl...) but it looks like I was mistaken -- it should actually also work with Edge and Opera. Will update the message for clarity...
    • kelnos 6y ago
      Looks like it is supported on Firefox, but disabled by default, and requires an about:config tweak: https://caniuse.com/?search=setSinkId https://caniuse.com/?search=setSinkId Its MDN doc (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaElement/setSinkId https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaEl...) shows it as a not-quite-finalized feature, but even so, seems odd to have a pref just for it.
      • throwanem 6y ago
        Also of note that Firefox's Web Audio API implementation just isn't very good in general. It's my daily driver, but I won't run Airsonic in it, because after half an hour or so the music reliably starts glitching. Fine in every other client, so it's definitely a Firefox thing, and iO-808 [1] also calls it out in an alert if you go there in Firefox. (And also starts glitching out after a while, if you decide to ignore the alert and take your chances.) Granted, a glitchy audio implementation might be just the thing for this use case... [1] https://io808.com/ https://io808.com/
• slig 6y ago
  Thanks for creating and for sharing with us! Disregard the negativity.
  • nitrogen 6y ago
    The negativity was probably meant for Chrome anyway.