Audio Changelog

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4.1.0 (2026-02-17)

• Removed incompatible material ui library. Incompatible with React 19

3.0.0 (2025-12-14)

• BREAKING CHANGE: Upgraded to React 19

2.21.3 (2023-11-09)

• Fix for webviewer hotkeys allowing invalid tools to be selected

2.21.2 (2023-10-27)

• Fix for loadAudio not loading for Blob objects and File objects

2.21.0 (2023-08-01)

• Fix for multi selection triggering when clicking on multiple regions
• Fix for not being able to add annotations programmatically
• Added support for #t={seconds} parameter in url. This loads the audio at the specific time.

2.20.0 (2023-07-18)

• Update to React 18

2.19.2 (2023-05-16)

• Fixing a FireFox rendering issue.

2.19.1 (2023-04-25)

• Fixing typescript issue

2.19.0 (2023-03-31)

• Adding compatibility with WebViewer 10.0.0

2.18.0 (2023-01-28)

• Added serviceWorkerLocation option to loadAudio. Useful for being able

to pass custom headers.

2.17.1 (2023-01-19)

• Adding custom header support for WebViewer Audio
• Adding button to loop audio

2.17.0 (2022-12-13)

• Added backwards compatibility with WebViewer 8.9.0

2.16.0 (2022-11-03)

• Added compatibility layer with WebViewer Video to allow frame by frame video comparison

2.15.0 (2022-10-07)

• Added new drag controls for more accurate frame by frame annotating. Use shift + mouse drag to have more precision. Only available and applicable when used with webviewer-video.

2.14.12 (2022-09-11)

• Add compatibility with webviewer 8.8
• Moved audio redaction to the redaction tool group
• General quality of life fixes for audio

2.14.5 (2022-06-08)

• Added typescript types

2.14.0 (2022-05-03)

• Fix for not being abled to disable waveform peaks.
• Added generatedPeaks option to loadAudio.
• Removed isLargeFile option.

2.13.0 (2022-04-25)

• Safari fix for audio files not being able to be seeked
• Added isLargeFile option to loadAudio as a workaround. This option is known to cause seeking issues on Safari.

2.11.0 (2022-03-16)

• Adding option generatedPeaks to disable audio decoding and deal with large mp3 files
• Refactoring code so downloading audio files now works when switching between different types of documents

2.11.0 (2022-03-23)

• Annotation previews will now be generated on the fly, reducing exported XFDF size

2.10.0 (2022-03-03)

• Shaka player support with video

2.9.0 (2022-02-27)

• Adding option showMobileStyling to disable mobile styling for custom applications

2.8.5 (2022-02-15)

• Adding clean up to session after components are unmounted from DOM

2.8.1 (2022-01-20)

• Fixing a race condition with Webviewer 8.2.0 where audio would load faster than webviewer UI resulting in it failing to render

2.8.0 (2022-01-07)

-Adding UI namespace on audioInstance to mimic how webviewer does their APIs. Can be use updateElement function to update regionDeleteButton functionality.

2.7.0 (2021-12-08)

• Added a new build bundle that includes React, for projects that don't want to install React. Check the #Builds README section for more information.

2.5.3 (2021-09-20)

• Various bug fixes

2.5.2 (2021-09-09)

• Various bug fixes
• Refactoring and optimizing code

2.5.1 (2021-08-31)

• Various bug fixes
• Updating documentation regarding ffmpeg
• Webviewer Audio should now transpile to es5

2.5.0 (2021-08-26)

• Webviewer Audio is now backwards compatible with Webviewer 7.x
• Read only mode is now respected when changed after initial load
• Multiple audio instances should now work and play their appropriate audio tracks

2.4.2 (2021-08-16)

• Bugfix for waveform peaks being incorrect and having trouble loading

2.4.0 (2021-08-12)

• Viewer now respects read only mode
• Updating styling of tool should reflect when creating regions
• Waveform should now be responsive
• Some ie11 compatibility fixes.

  • ie11 Video/Audio editing disabled.
  • ie11 Waveform does not render.
• Added ability to load video as a script tag

  • Added a Loading as Script Tag section to README

2.2.0 (2021-08-05)

• Updated package to work with WebViewer 8.0 and newer

2.1.0 (2021-09-03)

• Added getWaveSurfer API to retrieve the underlying WaveSurfer object.

2.0.3 (2021-07-14)

• Documented audio events
• Changed to use the builtin download button in WebViewer
• Various bug fixes

2.0.0 (2021-06-22)

• Removed react being provided by the package. The important project must now supply react.
• New rendering of the waveform.