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Per discussion at Audio WG f2f 2013-03-26 Remove the sentence: The decodeAudioData() method is preferred over the createBuffer() from ArrayBuffer method because it is asynchronous and does not block the main JavaScript thread. From the section on decodeAudioData
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Closing. See https://github.com/WebAudio/web-audio-api/issues for up to date list of issues for the Web Audio API.