I am using Flash to record and upload audio to a node server. The Flash client is a variation of jrecorder. When the user is done recording the audio is uploaded using a POST request (not a form because Flash cannot create files) with the audio ByteArray as the data of the POST request (see more here).
I am able to receive the file correctly on Node-land using the code below but the audio that comes out is mangled and you cannot hear anything. With that said, the content of the file can be played by VLC and other players + Sox is able to encode it as an mp3.
Here is my code when using Node:
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
app.use (function(req, res, next) {
req.rawBody = '';
req.setEncoding('utf8');
if(req.method.toLowerCase() == "post")
{
req.on('data', function(chunk) { req.rawBody += chunk });
req.on('end', function() { done(req, res); });
}
next();
});
function done(req, res)
{
fs.writeFile('abc.wav', req.rawBody, 'binary', function(err){
if (err) throw err;
// Save file to S3
}
}
Now if I use the same Flash client and make the POST request to a Rails server and use the code below, the file is saved perfectly.
def record
file = request.raw_post
# Save file to S3
end
Note that I am not a Node expert so please if you have any suggestions on what should I use instead of saving the chunks please post code examples. My main purpose right now is to get this to a working state before exploring other way of accomplishing more efficiently in Node (buffers, streams, etc)