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I Created an Open-Source Music Player 🎵🎶

Some days ago I made a post about how I created madza.dev. One of the most exciting parts was to create an Audio player for the Music section.

I've been receiving some PMs about it, so I decided to elaborate a bit.

As a music producer, I started it as a component to play my own tracks. Tho, the more I worked on it, the more I knew I should turn it into something the community could benefit from, as well.

So I made an open-source package from it. The one that you can install, set up the source for tracks, and customize the looks.

Audio Player

Links: 💻 Demo 📦 NPM package 💿 GitHub Source


Features

  1. Play / Pause
  2. Next / Previous
  3. Repeat / Loop
  4. Progress slider
  5. Time left / Total
  6. Volume slider
  7. Search track
  8. Filter by genre
  9. Playlist items

Install

 npm install @madzadev/audio-player
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Usage

import Player from "@madzadev/audio-player";
import "@madzadev/audio-player/dist/index.css";
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const tracks = [
  {
    url: "https://audioplayer.madza.dev/Madza-Chords_of_Life.mp3",
    title: "Madza - Chords of Life",
    tags: ["house"],
  },
  {
    url: "https://audioplayer.madza.dev/Madza-Late_Night_Drive.mp3",
    title: "Madza - Late Night Drive",
    tags: ["dnb"],
  },
  {
    url: "https://audioplayer.madza.dev/Madza-Persistence.mp3",
    title: "Madza - Persistence",
    tags: ["dubstep"],
  },
];
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<Player trackList={tracks}>
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trackList is the mandatory prop and requires to pass in an array consisting of objects with url, title and tags keys.

Options

The default values of available options props are displayed.

<Player
  trackList={tracks}
  includeTags={true}
  includeSearch={true}
  showPlaylist={true}
  autoPlayNextTrack={true}
/>
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Color schemes

You can further customize the player UI by editing the color variable below. Pre-defined color schemes are planned in the future.

const colors = `html {
          --tagsBackground: #9440f3;
          --tagsText: #ffffff;
          --tagsBackgroundHoverActive: #2cc0a0;
          --tagsTextHoverActive: #ffffff;
          --searchBackground: #18191f;
          --searchText: #ffffff;
          --searchPlaceHolder: #575a77;
          --playerBackground: #18191f;
          --titleColor: #ffffff; 
          --timeColor: #ffffff;
          --progressSlider: #9440f3;
          --progressUsed: #ffffff;
          --progressLeft: #151616;
          --volumeSlider: #9440f3;
          --volumeUsed: #ffffff;
          --volumeLeft:  #151616;
          --playlistBackground: #18191f;
          --playlistText: #575a77;
          --playlistBackgroundHoverActive:  #18191f;
          --playlistTextHoverActive: #ffffff;
      }`;
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<Player trackList={tracks} customColorScheme={colors} />
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Final notes

It's recommended to use CMS like Contentful or DatoCMS to manage your audio files and access them via API.

The project is open source and any feature requests or issues are welcomed in the Github repo. Take a look and give it a ⭐ if you liked it.


Writing has always been my passion and it gives me pleasure to help and inspire people. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out!

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Rahul

this is so simple and amazing

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Madza

Thank you so much! 🙏💖

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Renas

Well done!

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Madza

Thanks a lot 🙏💖

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Keagan Van Rooyen

Love the music player and your music!

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Madza

Thank you so much 🙏❤

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Fum

Thanks for sharing this. When I looked at your portfolio I did take notice of how cool the music player looked so nice to know you've made it available as open source :)

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Madza

Awesome to hear! 😉 Hopefully you will find it useful 🙏💖

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artydev

Great, thank you

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Madza

Thanks a lot! 🙏💖