https://github.com/audiojs/audio-type

Detect the audio type of a Buffer/Uint8Array
https://github.com/audiojs/audio-type

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Detect the audio type of a Buffer/Uint8Array

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/audiojs/audio-type
• Owner: audiojs
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-04-27T10:46:49.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-03-03T20:02:45.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-09-27T21:28:54.780Z (8 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 859 KB
• Stars: 25
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: readme.md
  • License: license

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> Detect the audio type of a ArrayBuffer/Uint8Array

## Install

```sh

$ npm i audio-type

```

## Usage

##### Node.js

```js

import readChunk from 'read-chunk'; // npm install read-chunk

import audioType from 'audio-type';

var buffer = readChunk.sync('meow.wav', 0, 12);

audioType(buffer);

//=> wav

```

##### Browser

```js

import audioType from './audio-type.js'

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

xhr.open('GET', 'meow.flac');

xhr.responseType = 'arraybuffer';

xhr.onload = function () {

	audioType(this.response);

	//=> flac

};

xhr.send();

```

## API

### audioType(buffer)

Returns: `'mp3'`, `'oga'`, `'flac'`, `'wav'`, `'m4a'`, `'opus'`, `'qoa'`

#### buffer

Type: `buffer` *(Node.js)*, `arrayBuffer`, `uint8array`

It only needs the first 12 bytes.

## License

MIT • ॐ