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Audio Playlists
3 replies · Started by John on July 29, 2021
Hi David,
I am sorry to bother you with this, again. But, I just spent a bunch of time in WP and on YouTube. And could not find an explanation. I want to create pages and posts which contain audio clips with me explaining cultural differences.
Creating a page or post which includes a single audio clip is simple. But how do I create a playlist? I simply could not find that option.
A second question, if I may: Is it possible to set up playlists such that the individual audio clips within a given playlist are played automatically one after the other?
This is critical because my audio clips are only max. two-three minutes in duration. I have 300 clips in both languages, 600 altogether. We want folks to do as little clicking as possible.
Thank you, David !
John
Hi there,
well theres a surprise, how bad the Audio block is - i didn't realise it didn't support playlists....
And looking around theres not many free plugins available and none of which seem to include autoplay.
Best i can offer out of the box is the following:
1. Add new Block - and select the Classic block.
2. In the Classic Block Toolbar click the media icon - this will open the media library and in the media panel you can select Create Audio Playlist. And select the files you want in your playlist. You can click the first one and shift click another to select a group.
3. Click Create Play list and then click Insert Playlist.
And thats it. You can convert the Classic Block to Blocks but that simply displays the shortcode its using behind the scenes.
Unfortunately no option to set it to Autoplay by the looks of it. That only works with a single audio file.
That was a fast reply, David. Thank you. And a very helpful reply. Ok, it appears to be that folks don't imbed audio playlists in website. There will be reasons for that, and most likely good ones.
Which tells me: "Drop the idea, John." or "Host your playlists elsewhere - iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud - and link your website to them."
Thanks again, David. You folks are really first-class !
John
Yeah - i get that feeling too :) better off having them in a streaming service as well.
Glad to be of help.
