# Floating Audio Player for entire forum
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/floating-audio-player-for-entire-forum/275078
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [August 14, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/floating-audio-player-for-entire-forum/275078 "2023-08-14T16:27:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@lowkey\_324](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lowkey_324)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/floating-audio-player-for-entire-forum/275078/1 "2023-08-14T16:27:19Z")
Hi, I’ve read through the forum trying to figure out if its possible to have an audio player for one’s **entire** discourse website. I’m not trying to do anything fancy like auto play.
What I’d like to do is have a music player floating on the website. So regardless of which topic or pages a user visits, they can decide to just click play and listen to music as they read through posts (so yes there should be the basic music player controls). The name of the song and the artists name would also appear. The music will be from Soundcloud playlists that I’ve made from my own account.
It’d also be great if there was a way to allow users to hide this music player.
Any chance you have any articles, plugins, third party services or instructions you can point me to in order to achieve this?
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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2023, 7:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/floating-audio-player-for-entire-forum/275078/2 "2023-08-14T19:14:27Z")
I have no idea if it’s possible, but this would be pretty cool in the sidebar as an additional section!
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2023, 7:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/floating-audio-player-for-entire-forum/275078/3 "2023-08-14T19:32:06Z")
there’s been similar topics and possible solutions suggested
> [@Use fancy audio player](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-fancy-audio-player/108894/1):
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> Hi, I’m planning to launch an audio community and was looking at audio player options in Discourse. There don’t seem to be any out-of-the-box solutions. Would it be possible to integrate a player like the [Podigee Podcast Player](http://podigee.github.io/podigee-podcast-player/) or [Podlove Web Player](https://docs.podlove.org/podlove-web-player/) so that any link to an audio file in a post would appear in that player? I don’t know anything about Discourse coding, but from Podigee’s Github it seems like all that would be needed is to wrap an audio file URL in [some code](https://github.com/podigee/podigee-podcast-player#inline-configuration). window.playerConfig…
> [@Audio player (plugin?) request](https://meta.discourse.org/t/audio-player-plugin-request/54184):
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> This one is a stretch, but I thought I’d see if any of you guys would be up for a challenge. A couple of us have recently started up a Discourse forum (so far, so good btw) related to music recording, mixing, etc. In the site, we have a section where people can post a mix that they are working on so that others can contribute ideas for fixes (ie, adjust EQ on vocals, ext). I’m curious if it would be possible to make an audio player that allows you to hear the 10 most recent uploads (for examp…
> [@Embed HTML5 player for MP3 file](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-html5-player-for-mp3-file/158970):
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> I was hoping to just paste the below into a discourse topic and get an HTML5 mp3 player. (This embedded source comes from a plugin on my Wordpress site.) Pointers, thoughts, … ?? \