How to stream MP3 data via WebSockets with node.js and socket.io?

I have problems streaming MP3 data via WebSocket with node.js and socket.io. Everything seems to work but decodeAudioData doesn't play fair with me.

This is my toy server:

var app = require('http').createServer(handler)
  , io = require('socket.io').listen(app)
  , fs = require('fs')

app.listen(8081);

function handler (req, res) {
    res.writeHead(200, {
        'Content-Type': 'text/html',
    });
    res.end('Hello, world!');
}

io.configure('development', function() {
  io.set('log level', 1);

  io.set('transports', [ 'websocket' ]);
});

io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {
    console.log('connection established');

    var readStream = fs.createReadStream("test.mp3", 
                                         {'flags': 'r',
                                          'encoding': 'binary', 
                                          'mode': 0666, 
                                          'bufferSize': 64 * 1024});
    readStream.on('data', function(data) {
        console.log(typeof data);
        console.log('sending chunk of data')
        socket.send(data);
    });

    socket.on('disconnect', function () {
        console.log('connection droped');
    });
});

console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8081/');

The client receives the data as type string but I want to feed the data to decodeAudioData and it seems it doesn't like strings. The call to decodeAudioData results in the following error message:

Uncaught Error: SYNTAX_ERR: DOM Exception 12

I think decodeAudioData needs the data stored in an ArrayBuffer. Is there a way to convert the data?

This is the client code:

<script src="http://127.0.0.1:8081/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>
<script>
    var audioBuffer = null;
    var context = null;
    window.addEventListener('load', init, false);
    function init() {
        try {
            context = new webkitAudioC