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Add short-form talk audio to your blog or website. Highlight your own podcast with a clip from your latest episode or take your blog to the next level with bursts of relevant audio content.
We know one thing for sure: audio content increases time-on-site. Easily add soundbites to your blog or website using the Audioburst Podcast Highlights Player and engage with your audience in a whole new way.
This plugin enables you to embed podcast highlights into several content areas (with Gutenberg block type). You can also add audio to footers and sidebars using traditional WordPress widgets. Use block properties while composing a post to select the desired content and the player look.
At Audioburst, we’re building the world’s largest library of searchable talk audio content. Every day, our technology ingests, segments and indexes millions of minutes of audio information from leading radio stations and premium podcasts. 
We organize live and on-demand audio content to make it more accessible and discoverable. Our aim is to power the next generation of listening experiences across web, mobile, IoT and in-car infotainment systems.
Publishers & Bloggers: Sign up to Audioburst Publishers to ignite audience growth and revenue streams. Leverage your own spoken-word audio or select from a diverse range of ready-made topical playlists to increase user engagement and add monetization opportunities. Visit <a href="https://audioburst.com/publishers/web?utm_source=WP&utm_medium=lp&utm_campaign=plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">our website</a> to learn more.
Podcasters & Radio stations: Sign up to Audioburst Creators to maximize your discoverability. Use Audioburst’s new plugin on your WordPress site to play highlights from your latest episodes. Visit <a href="https://audioburst.com/creators?utm_source=WP&utm_medium=lp&utm_campaign=plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">our website</a> to learn more.

Audioburst Podcast Highlights Player

Add short-form talk-audio to your blog or website. Highlight your own podcast or enrich blog post with bursts of relevant short-form audio content.

David Keane

RangerHQ Radio adds a tiny, focused internet radio player to your WordPress dashboard so you can have background music while you work in the admin — without leaving the page, opening Spotify, or installing a desktop client.
<h4>What you get</h4>
<ul>
<li>44 hand-curated stations from <a href="https://somafm.com" rel="nofollow ugc">SomaFM</a> across 10 genres — ambient, electronic, lounge, rock, metal, jazz, world, reggae, holiday and specials. From coding-focus ambient (Groove Salad, Drone Zone) to drive-time electronic (DEF CON Radio, Beat Blender) to mellow lounge (Lush, Secret Agent).</li>
<li>Now-playing indicator — small CSS dancing-bars equalizer that pulses while audio is playing. A Web Audio frequency visualizer kicks in automatically when the browser allows it (with a graceful fallback to the CSS bars).</li>
<li>Track history + favourites — every track that scrolls past is logged to your personal History page (capped at 500); a star toggle promotes the good ones to a separate Favourites tab that doesn’t age out. Each row has four search links (Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, Bandcamp) so you can find that track on whichever service you use.</li>
<li>Pop-out mini-player — a 380×560 standalone window that persists across the main tab’s navigation, so background music doesn’t cut when you move between Plugins, Posts, Users, etc.</li>
<li>OS media keys — F8/headphone buttons/lock-screen widget play and pause the radio (via MediaSession API).</li>
<li>Mute toggle — the speaker icon is clickable; remembers prior volume.</li>
<li>Dark theme — explicit dark option for the player surface (<code>Settings → Theme</code>).</li>
<li>Per-user state — your chosen station, volume, theme, history, and favourites all live in <code>user_meta</code>, so each WordPress user has their own setup.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Third-party service</h4>
This plugin streams audio from <a href="https://somafm.com" rel="nofollow ugc">SomaFM</a> — an independent, listener-supported, commercial-free internet radio network broadcasting from San Francisco since 2000. RangerHQ Radio is a small WordPress wrapper around their public streams; the service itself provides all the music. SomaFM’s terms of use are at <a href="https://somafm.com/legal/" rel="nofollow ugc">somafm.com/legal/</a>. If you enjoy the music, please consider <a href="https://somafm.com/support/" rel="nofollow ugc">supporting SomaFM directly</a>.
See the dedicated Privacy section below for everything that does and does not leave your site.
<h3>Privacy</h3>
RangerHQ Radio is privacy-respecting by design:
<ul>
<li>No telemetry from the plugin. RangerHQ Radio does not phone home, report usage statistics, or contact the plugin author’s servers in any way.</li>
<li>No data leaves your site. All per-user state — station choice, volume, theme, listening history, favourites — is stored in your own WordPress database (<code>wp_usermeta</code>) and never transmitted anywhere.</li>
<li>Audio streams come from SomaFM directly. When you press Play, your browser opens an HTTP stream to <code>https://somafm.com</code> — the plugin does not proxy, log, or analyse this connection. SomaFM’s own privacy practices apply to the stream; see <a href="https://somafm.com/legal/" rel="nofollow ugc">SomaFM legal</a>.</li>
<li>Current-track display polls SomaFM’s public songs endpoint (<code>https://somafm.com/songs/{station}.json</code>) every 30 seconds while audio is playing. The plugin sends no identifying information with this request. Polling stops the moment you pause.</li>
<li>Search-provider links (Spotify / YouTube / Apple Music / Bandcamp) are outbound only. Clicking one opens a new tab with a search URL on that service — the plugin sends no data and stores no information about which links you click.</li>
<li>No third-party JavaScript is loaded from outside your own server. All scripts ship inside the plugin.</li>
<li>Updates come from WordPress.org through the normal WordPress core update process. The plugin does not contact any other update server.</li>
</ul>
If you do not want any third-party traffic at all, simply do not press Play.

RangerHQ Radio

A small, focused internet radio player for your WordPress admin — 44 hand-curated stations, history, favourites, and a pop-out window.

Audioburst Podcast Highlights Player vs RangerHQ Radio