title: Web Audio API: seek, play-/buffer-progress
body: <p>When you play audio using the audio element in Chrome you get annoying clicks and cracks. At least under my 64bit Linux installation, even after I formatted and installed a new Fedora version. (Firefox and Opera are fine, even IE9 in a VirtualBox Windows 7.)</p>
  
  <p>But demos using the Web Audio API instead of the audio element have perfect sound. So I was wondering if I could use the Web Audio API like the audio element? But there are some things you seem not to be able to do with this API. Or am I missing something? The things I couldn't find where:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>starting to play a file before it is completely loaded</li>
  <li>getting buffer progress updates (depends on the previous point)</li>
  <li>getting play progress updates</li>
  <li>seeking</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Is there a way to do this with the Web Audio API?</p>
  
  <p>This is where I would use it: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/magnatune-player" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/magnatune-player</a></p>