[html] HTML5 Canvas background image

I'm trying to place a background image on the back of this canvas script I found. I know it's something to do with the context.fillstyle but not sure how to go about it. I'd like that line to read something like this:

context.fillStyle = "url('http://www.samskirrow.com/background.png')";

Here is my current code:

var waveform = (function() {

var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.open("GET", "js/jquery-1.6.4.min.js", false);
req.send();
eval(req.responseText);
req.open("GET", "js/soundmanager2.js", false);
req.send();
eval(req.responseText);
req.open("GET", "js/soundcloudplayer.js", false);
req.send();
eval(req.responseText);
req.open("GET", "js/raf.js", false);
req.send();
eval(req.responseText);

// soundcloud player setup

soundManager.usePolicyFile = true;
soundManager.url = 'http://www.samskirrow.com/client-kyra/js/';
soundManager.flashVersion = 9;
soundManager.useFlashBlock = false;
soundManager.debugFlash = false;
soundManager.debugMode = false;
soundManager.useHighPerformance = true;
soundManager.wmode = 'transparent';
soundManager.useFastPolling = true;
soundManager.usePeakData = true;
soundManager.useWaveformData = true;
soundManager.useEqData = true;

var clientID = "345ae40b30261fe4d9e6719f6e838dac";
var playlistUrl = "https://soundcloud.com/kyraofficial/sets/kyra-ft-cashtastic-good-love";

var waveLeft = [];
var waveRight = [];

// canvas animation setup
var canvas;
var context;

function init(c) {
    canvas = document.getElementById(c);
    context = canvas.getContext("2d");
    soundManager.onready(function() {
        initSound(clientID, playlistUrl);
    });
    aniloop();
}

function aniloop() {
    requestAnimFrame(aniloop);
    drawWave();
}

function drawWave() {

    var step = 10;
    var scale = 60;

    // clear
    context.fillStyle = "#ff19a7";
    context.fillRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);

    // left wave
    context.beginPath();

    for ( var i = 0; i < 256; i++) {

        var l = (i/(256-step)) * 1000;
        var t = (scale + waveLeft[i] * -scale);

        if (i == 0) {
        context.moveTo(l,t);
        } else {
        context.lineTo(l,t); //change '128' to vary height of wave, change '256' to move wave up or down.
    }
    }

    context.stroke();


    // right wave
    context.beginPath();
    context.moveTo(0, 256);
    for ( var i = 0; i < 256; i++) {

        context.lineTo(4 * i, 255 + waveRight[i] * 128.);
    }
    context.lineWidth = 0.5;
    context.strokeStyle = "#000";
    context.stroke();
}

function updateWave(sound) {
    waveLeft = sound.waveformData.left;
}

return {
    init : init
};
})();

Revised code - currently just showing black as the background, not an image:

// canvas animation setup
var backgroundImage = new Image(); 
backgroundImage.src = 'http://www.samskirrow.com/images/main-bg.jpg'; 
var canvas;
var context;

function init(c) {
    canvas = document.getElementById(c);
    context = canvas.getContext("2d");
    soundManager.onready(function() {
        initSound(clientID, playlistUrl);
    });
    aniloop();
}

function aniloop() {
    requestAnimFrame(aniloop);
    drawWave();
}

function drawWave() {

    var step = 10;
    var scale = 60;

    // clear
    context.drawImage(backgroundImage, 0, 0);
    context.fillRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);

    // left wave
    context.beginPath();

    for ( var i = 0; i < 256; i++) {

        var l = (i/(256-step)) * 1000;
        var t = (scale + waveLeft[i] * -scale);

        if (i == 0) {
        context.moveTo(l,t);
        } else {
        context.lineTo(l,t); //change '128' to vary height of wave, change '256' to move wave up or down.
    }
    }

    context.stroke();


    // right wave
    context.beginPath();
    context.moveTo(0, 256);
    for ( var i = 0; i < 256; i++) {

        context.lineTo(4 * i, 255 + waveRight[i] * 128.);
    }
    context.lineWidth = 0.5;
    context.strokeStyle = "#ff19a7";
    context.stroke();
}

function updateWave(sound) {
    waveLeft = sound.waveformData.left;
}

return {
    init : init
};
})();

You can see the site that I'm working on here: http://www.samskirrow.com/client-kyra

Canvas does not using .png file as background image. changing to other file extensions like gif or jpg works fine.

Make sure that in case your image is not in the dom, and you get it from local directory or server, you should wait for the image to load and just after that to draw it on the canvas.

something like that:

function drawBgImg() {
    let bgImg = new Image();
    bgImg.src = '/images/1.jpg';
    bgImg.onload = () => {
        gCtx.drawImage(bgImg, 0, 0, gElCanvas.width, gElCanvas.height);
    }
}

Why don't you style it out:

<canvas id="canvas" width="800" height="600" style="background: url('./images/image.jpg')">
  Your browser does not support the canvas element.
</canvas>