Web/API/AudioTrack/enabled

The AudioTrack property enabled specifies whether or not the described audio track is currently enabled for use. If the track is disabled by setting enabled to false, the track is muted and does not produce audio.

Syntax

isAudioEnabled = AudioTrack.enabled;

AudioTrack.enabled = true | false;

Value

The enabled property is a Boolean whose value is true if the track is enabled; enabled tracks produce audio while the media is playing. Setting enabled to false effectively mutes the audio track, preventing it from contributing to the media's audio performance.

Example

This example switches between the main and commentary audio tracks of a media element.

function swapCommentaryMain() {
  var videoElem = document.getElementById("main-video");
  var audioTrackMain;
  var audioTrackCommentary;

  videoElem.audioTracks.forEach(track) {
    if (track.kind === "main") {
      audioTrackMain = track;
    } else if (track.kind === "commentary") {
      audioTrackCommentary = track;
    }
  }

  if (audioTrackMain && audioTrackCommentary) {
    var commentaryEnabled = audioTrackCommentary.enabled;
    audioTrackCommentary.enabled = audioTrackMain.enabled;
    audioTrackMain.enabled = commentaryEnabled;
  }
}

The swapCommentaryMain() function above finds within the audio tracks of the <video> element "main-video" the audio tracks whose kind values are "main" and "commentary". These represent the primary audio track and the commentary track.

Note: This example assumes that there is only one of each kind of track in the video, but this is not necessarily the case.

The element's audio tracks are then scanned through using the JavaScript forEach() method (although the audioTracks property of a media element isn't actually a JavaScript array, it can be accessed like one for the most part).

The scan looks for the tracks whose kind values are "main" and "commentary" and remembers those AudioTrack objects. Once those have been found, the values of the two tracks' enabled properties are exchanged, which results in swapping which of the two tracks is currently active.

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
HTML Living StandardThe definition of 'AudioTrack.enabled' in that specification.	Living Standard
HTML5The definition of 'AudioTrack.enabled' in that specification.	Recommendation

Browser compatibility

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	Desktop						Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari	Android webview	Chrome for Android	Firefox for Android	Opera for Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet
`enabled`	Chrome Full support 37 Disabled' Full support 37 Disabled' Disabled' From version 37: this feature is behind the `enable-experimental-web-platform-features` preference (needs to be set to `enabled`). To change preferences in Chrome, visit chrome://flags.	Edge Full support 79 Disabled' Full support 79 Disabled' Disabled' From version 79: this feature is behind the `enable-experimental-web-platform-features` preference (needs to be set to `enabled`). No support 12 — 79	Firefox Full support 33 Disabled' Full support 33 Disabled' Disabled' From version 33: this feature is behind the `media.track.enabled` preference (needs to be set to `true`). To change preferences in Firefox, visit about:config.	IE Full support 10	Opera Full support 24 Disabled' Full support 24 Disabled' Disabled' From version 24: this feature is behind the `enable-experimental-web-platform-features` preference (needs to be set to `enabled`).	Safari Full support 6.1	WebView Android No support No	Chrome Android Full support 37 Disabled' Full support 37 Disabled' Disabled' From version 37: this feature is behind the `enable-experimental-web-platform-features` preference (needs to be set to `enabled`). To change preferences in Chrome, visit chrome://flags.	Firefox Android Full support 33 Disabled' Full support 33 Disabled' Disabled' From version 33: this feature is behind the `media.track.enabled` preference (needs to be set to `true`). To change preferences in Firefox, visit about:config.	Opera Android Full support 24 Disabled' Full support 24 Disabled' Disabled' From version 24: this feature is behind the `enable-experimental-web-platform-features` preference (needs to be set to `enabled`).	Safari iOS Full support 7	Samsung Internet Android No support No

Legend

Full support: Full support
No support: No support
User must explicitly enable this feature.': User must explicitly enable this feature.

AudioTrack.enabled by Mozilla Contributors is licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.5.