We're working hard on the spec and its test suite to make it easy for other browser vendors to support the API, so hopefully we'll see support for it in more browsers soon.
Disclaimer: I co-chair the W3C Web Audio WG.
I've had this rant before but WebKit is becoming the new IE6 and it's pissing me off as a Firefox and IE user.
Sorry you're pissed off, but your rant is directed at the wrong people. Go file bug reports with Mozilla and Microsoft instead of chastising someone for making something cool.
I haven't checked that this is the case (i.e. whether making it work in Fx would be huge burden or even impossible), possibly not. Anyway, just saying.
first 3-digit number is integer - tempo (bpm)
next are space seperated values TOL, where:
T is letter - tone: C,d(des),D,e(es),E,F,g(ges),G,a(as),A,B,H,P(pause)
O is digit - octave: 0-9
L is digit/letter - length: L=0-9,A-Z <=> 1/(L+1)
240 A47 G47 A47 F47 A47 E47 A47 D47 A47 d47 A47 D47 A47 E47 A47 F47 A47 A37 A47 H37 A47 d47 A47 D47 A47 d47 A47 D47 A47 E47 A47 D43
EDIT: I just realized that you may wonder what is H there. For conciseness I'll quote Wikipedia on that matter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(musical_note)
> However, in Germany, Central and Eastern Europe, and Scandinavia, the label B is used for what, above, is called B-flat, and the note a semitone below C is called H.
To be honest, today I would slightly change my notation, to make it more readable, consistent and friendlier for English-speaking people:
OTD[.]
O - octave: [0-9]
T - tone: C,d(es),D,e(s),E,F,g(es),G,a(s),A,b(es),B,P(ause)
D - duration: [0-9A-Z] meaning:
breve (double whole note) // for D==0
1/D note // for D!=0
. - dotted note, changes duration to: // d - duration
d(2 - 1/2^n) // n - number of dots
4A8 4G8 4A8 4F8 4A8 4E8 4A8 4D8 4A8 4d8 4A8 4D8 4A8
Why I didn't do it like that from the beginning? No idea...
If anyone has any suggestions or questions, then please raise them here: https://github.com/meenie/8bit.js/issues