Audio

[jhc]

Hello.

I am a musician and bought Laytheme after a design friend recommended it.
Now I see the only way to implement audio is to embed soundcloud links. If I didnt overlook a feature. The problem is I dont want soundcloud branding on my website.

Could there be an audio player in the future? Or should I get another solution like another wordpress template?

Cheers, Julius

[arminunruh]

hey Julius! i guess you want to embed audio using wordpress' standard/built-in mp3 player. That one doesn't work in lay theme currently, but I believe its a bit ugly anyway.

Anyway, to get an unbranded audio player, please upload an mp3 into your media library. Then click on that mp3 to open the information and copy the "URL".

Now in the gridder please go to "+more" -> "+html".
Now enter:

<audio src="YOUR-URL" controls> </audio>

Here is a very technical explanation about the "audio" tag: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/HTML/Element/audio

Here is a list of embeds that should work (in case you dont want to go for the unbranded audio player):
https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds

this includes spotify. If your song is played through spotify you get some money for that no?

[jhc]

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[nicorinker]

Hey @arminunruh !
how do I delete the download option in the controls of the audio player? Not really good in html, so I could need a little help here :-)

Thank you!
Nico

[arminunruh]

source:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/audio
https://wicg.github.io/controls-list/explainer.html

<audio controls controlslist="nodownload" src="/media/cc0-audio/t-rex-roar.mp3"></audio>

add it using +more -> +html
in the gridder

and the url needs to be the url of your audio file, and it should be uploaded using the media library