Side note, this can also cause a bit of difficulty in some situations apparently as seen in a HN post from a few months ago that didn’t get much attention
> I've been working on an audio application for a little bit, and was shocked to find Chrome handles simultaneous recording & playback very poorly. Made this site to demo the issue as clearly as possible
Not sure if it's the whole story, but the latest response in the linked Chrome ticket seems to indicate that the api's were used incorrectly by the author
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39669626
> I've been working on an audio application for a little bit, and was shocked to find Chrome handles simultaneous recording & playback very poorly. Made this site to demo the issue as clearly as possible
https://chrome-please-fix-your-audio.xyz/