Sound loading is extremely slow on the NEXT version about preloadjs HOT 3 CLOSED

This is probably because up until SoundJS 0.3.0, HTML audio was the default, and it only preloads enough of the audio to playback the whole file at the current download speed. The NEXT version defaults to WebAudio, which actually preloads the entire file. This could be why it seems like a longer download, especially with large files.

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I understand the Web Audio case.

But what about the case of IE? IE does not support the Web Audio API.
Taking 4 seconds to download total 1.28MB is odd, even on the localhost.

And I confirmed this phenomenon occurs even with 3KB MP3s.
It also takes 4 seconds to download total 30KB on IE9/10. I feel this is not normal.

I also found that Sound.registerManifest does not suffer from this slowness
so looks like I can work around the problem by using it.

Thanks.

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I am not sure what is causing that. We did not change how audio is loaded (technically) using HTML audio between the last version and the current version. Something else might be happening - we will look into it.

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