embedded playlist streaming?

[headstone]

Hi! First time long time.

I'm working on a personal fanworks archive site, and I'd like a section to be devoted to fanmixes, with audio files (that I own locally & would make available to the web server) embedded in a playlist format.

My understanding is that base HTML has fairly robust audio embedding/playing capabilities of its own, but I want to get a sense for whether there are other tools worth looking into, whether because they make for a better music playing experience, easier administration, etc.

I'm interested in any templates, tools, special-purpose themes for a SSG, or just plain tips & tricks that might be relevant for this purpose. Thanks!

Comments

[luckyzukky]

hey roland! i know you use astro, not sure if you're gonna use it for this archive but i suspect it'd be pretty simple to build a raw HTML/CSS/optional JS astro component that can accept files? i think that might be a bit difficult though now that i think about it....

i mean you could build a component that takes file names as arguments like this: <Track file="musicfiles/01 Ditto.mp3" />

and that component constructs an <audio> tag and all that entails. possibly wraps them in <details> elements too?

i'm just thinking out loud but i hope any of this is helpful!

[headstone]

hiii melo! knew you'd have things to suggest <3

i'm most familiar with astro as SSGs go and going that route for this site would be my preference, but i'm open to other things, too--trying to understand my requirements before i put something up to save me time later having to migrate my content...

i haven't built an astro component from scratch before but it seems doable, even if it takes me a while :p

[osteophage]

The tool I've seen recommended for sets of music files is Scritch, an HTML media player. Haven't tried it myself, but I know someone who uses it, so I can pass along any questions if need be.