api.go | 6 ++++++

diff --git a/api.go b/api.go
index ea86a5286cf67ebe337082dac109ab565fa424af..48de9ff0bc2ef6718f89642ea4f471f7c2bb137b 100644
--- a/api.go
+++ b/api.go
@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ 	return &Encoder{p: p}, nil
 }
 
 func (enc *Encoder) EncodeFloat32(pcm []float32) ([]byte, error) {
+	if pcm == nil || len(pcm) == 0 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("opus: no data supplied")
+	}
 	// I never know how much to allocate
 	data := make([]byte, 10000)
 	n := int(C.opus_encode_float(
@@ -99,6 +102,9 @@ 	return dec, nil
 }
 
 func (dec *Decoder) DecodeFloat32(data []byte) ([]float32, error) {
+	if data == nil || len(data) == 0 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("opus: no data supplied")
+	}
 	// I don't know how big this frame will be, but this is the limit
 	pcm := make([]float32, xMAX_FRAME_SIZE_MS*dec.sample_rate/1000)
 	n := int(C.opus_decode_float(