Justin Tadlock

Corey Snow

<p>Audio Player Widget is a small plugin that provides support for using the Audio-Player plugin in WordPress sidebars.</p>
<p>The Audio Player Widget requires Martin Laine’s WordPress Audio Player plugin.</p>
<ul>
<li>Homepage for Audio Player: http://wpaudioplayer.com/.</li>
<li>WordPress Plugin Page for Audio Player: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/audio-player/</li>
</ul>
<p>Using the Audio Player Widget is simple. If your theme supports widgets and you have the Audio Player plugin<br />
installed, you can drag the widget to the sidebar and specify a label and URL for an MP3 file. The widget<br />
will render the Audio Player in the sidebar when the page is loaded by dynamically generating the [audio:URL] tag<br />
the Audio Player plugin requires.</p>


Audio Player Widget

Audio Player Widget is a small plugin that provides support for using the Audio-Player plugin in WordPress sidebars.

nucleusdigital

<p><strong>Audio Playlist</strong> is a modern, self-hosted HTML5 audio player for WordPress. It dynamically reads MP3 and WAV files from a folder on your server — no Spotify, no SoundCloud, no dependency on external music services.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Reads tracks automatically from your audio folder</li>
<li>Displays track titles based on filenames (clean formatting with spaces and capitalization)</li>
<li>Displays a cover image (cover.jpg or cover.png) for the playlist</li>
<li>Renders an interactive waveform powered by WaveSurfer.js</li>
<li>Full playback controls: Play, Pause, Previous, Next, Shuffle, Loop, Volume</li>
<li>Auto-scrolling title for long track names</li>
<li>Works in any shortcode-compatible field — no Gutenberg block required</li>
<li>Compatible with Divi and other page builders</li>
<li>Configurable background color for the player</li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<p>Place your MP3 files in a folder named <code>playlist</code> under your audio base directory, add a <code>cover.jpg</code>, then use the shortcode:</p>
<pre><code>[nuclaup_playlist label="My Playlist"]
</code></pre>
<h4>Free version limitations</h4>
<ul>
<li>Reads tracks from a single fixed folder named <code>playlist</code></li>
<li>Single cover image per playlist (cover.jpg) — no per-track covers</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro version</h4>
<p><strong>Audio Playlist Pro</strong> adds:</p>
<ul>
<li>Multiple playlists with custom folder paths</li>
<li>ID3 tag reading (title, artist) for accurate track metadata</li>
<li>Per-track cover art via catalog code matching</li>
<li>Companion Python script to extract and resize cover art from MP3 ID3 tags</li>
<li>Advanced admin panel with catalog code configuration</li>
</ul>


Nucleus Audio Playlist

A modern, self-hosted HTML5 audio player for WordPress. Drop MP3s in a folder, add a shortcode, and play.

Audio Player Widget vs Nucleus Audio Playlist