AudioTrack
Limited availability
This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.
The AudioTrack interface represents a single audio track from one of the HTML media elements, <audio> or <video>.
The most common use for accessing an AudioTrack object is to toggle its enabled property in order to mute and unmute the track.
Instance properties
enabled-
A Boolean value which controls whether or not the audio track's sound is enabled. Setting this value to
falsemutes the track's audio. idRead only-
A string which uniquely identifies the track within the media. This ID can be used to locate a specific track within an audio track list by calling
AudioTrackList.getTrackById(). The ID can also be used as the fragment part of the URL if the media supports seeking by media fragment per the Media Fragments URI specification. kindRead only-
A string specifying the category into which the track falls. For example, the main audio track would have a
kindof"main". labelRead only-
A string providing a human-readable label for the track. For example, an audio commentary track for a movie might have a
labelof"Commentary with director John Q. Public and actors John Doe and Jane Eod."This string is empty if no label is provided. languageRead only-
A string specifying the audio track's primary language, or an empty string if unknown. The language is specified as a BCP 47 (RFC 5646) language code, such as
"en-US"or"pt-BR". sourceBufferRead only-
The
SourceBufferthat created the track. Returns null if the track was not created by aSourceBufferor theSourceBufferhas been removed from theMediaSource.sourceBuffersattribute of its parent media source.
Usage notes
To get an AudioTrack for a given media element, use the element's audioTracks property, which returns an AudioTrackList object from which you can get the individual tracks contained in the media:
const el = document.querySelector("video");
const tracks = el.audioTracks;
You can then access the media's individual tracks using either array syntax or functions such as forEach().
This first example gets the first audio track on the media:
const firstTrack = tracks[0];
The next example scans through all of the media's audio tracks, enabling any that are in the user's preferred language (taken from a variable userLanguage) and disabling any others.
tracks.forEach((track) => {
track.enabled = track.language === userLanguage;
});
The language is in standard (RFC 5646) format. For US English, this would be "en-US", for example.
Example
See AudioTrack.label for a simple example that shows how to get an array of track kinds and labels for a specified media element, filtered by kind.
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML Standard # audiotrack |
Browser compatibility
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