Express, Node, Angular sending audio file to front end

Question

I'm trying to serve audio files from a Node/Express back end, to an Angular front end.

The server side code is:

var file = "/filepath.wav";
res.download(file, 'testAudio.wav');

The client side code:

var testData = null;

this.getBasicAudio = function(){
  console.log("Requesting File");
  $http.get('/getBasicAudio', "FilePathRequest")
  //Success, return the file
  .success(function(data){
    console.log("File retrive Successful");
    testData = data;
    return true;
  })
  //Error, file not retrived 
  .error(function(data){
    console.log("File retrive Failed");
    return false;
  });
};

This returns the file all ok.

I'm trying to load this into a Audio object, as if I was putting in the file reference.

var audio = new Audio(testData);

But the object is null. From what I understand I'm getting back a filestream object from express, but I can't find how to turn this into playable audio.

edit: Is it because express download() only works with non-binary data??

Thanks!

Answer 1

Got a file being delivered using this: https://github.com/obastemur/mediaserver

Code looks like:

Server:

http.createServer(function(req,res){
  ms.pipe(req,res,"../../Node/TWLW/audio/examples/testAudio.mp3");
}).listen(1337, '127.0.0.1');

Client:

var audio = new Audio('http://127.0.0.1:1337/');
audio.play();

In Express the files doesn't get returned in the response. Instead can be accessed by the url:

Server

app.get('/music.mp3',function(req,res){
  ms.pipe(req, res, '../../Node/TWLW/audio/examples/testAudio.mp3');
});

Client

var audio = new Audio('http://127.0.0.1:8080/testAudio.mp3');

Answer 2

You didn't read Audio documentation.

mySound = new Audio([URLString]);

Audio constructor takes an URL, not raw data. You don't need to download the audio file beforehand:

var audio = new Audio('/getBasicAudio');
audio.play(); // your audio file should play

The server code works as it is.