Audio Player Block – Play Audio Beautifully on Any Page vs Spectra Legacy – Gutenberg Blocks

Give your visitors a beautiful listening experience – add a stylish audio player with playlists and cover art to any post or page, no code required. Get Pro Version | Support Why Audio Player Block? The default WordPress audio embed is plain and forgettable. Audio Player Block replaces it with a polished, customizable player that fits your design – complete with track titles, artist names, and cover images. Add multiple audio tracks to build a playlist, or select a single file for a simple standalone player. Smart play/pause control plays one track at a time and automatically pauses the others, so overlapping audio never happens. Everything is configured right in the Gutenberg editor, and shortcode support lets you place the same player anywhere on your site. Free Features Multiple Audio Management: Easily add or remove multiple audio tracks with full control over your playlist. Track Details Input: Set a custom title and artist name for each track to keep your content well organized. Cover Image & Audio Upload: Upload audio files along with a cover image for a more engaging, visual player. Player Customization: Adjust width and height, and style colors, backgrounds, and hover effects to match your website. Smart Play/Pause Control: Play one track at a time while others pause automatically; click again to pause the current track. Shortcode Integration: Display the audio player anywhere on your website with a shortcode. Pro Version Want more themes and playback controls? Audio Player Block Pro unlocks: 5 Customizable Themes with different looks and settings. Auto Play – automatically start the next song once the current one ends. Loop Mode – repeat the current track when it finishes. Prev/Next Navigation to move through the playlist. Current & Total Time Display for each track. Custom Stop Button you can show or hide. Playback Speed Control options. Download Icon so listeners can save the audio file. Forward & Backward Buttons for skipping within a track. Deep Style Controls: thumbnail border and radius, seek bar height, radius, thumb width, outline and shadow, controls border and hover border, time display radius, artist opacity, waveform colors, and playlist border and radius. How to Use Install and activate the Audio Player Block plugin. In the Gutenberg editor, add the Audio Player Block from the “Widgets” block category. Upload your audio files, cover image, and track details. Fine-tune the design from the right-side settings sidebar. Publish – your player is live! Use Cases Musicians & Bands: Share albums and singles as playlists with cover art. Podcasters: Embed episodes directly in posts and pages. Course Creators: Add audio lessons and narration to learning content. Bloggers: Offer audio versions of articles for on-the-go readers. Did you like this plugin? Do you have a feature request? Please share your feedback with us. ⭐ Check out the Parent Plugin of this plugin- 🔥 B Blocks – Best gutenberg blocks collections for WordPress. ⭐ Check out our other WordPress Plugins- 🔥 Html5 Audio Player – Best audio player plugin for WordPress. 🔥 Html5 Video Player – Best video player plugin for WordPress. 🔥 PDF Poster – A fully-featured PDF Viewer Plugin for WordPress. 🔥 Document Embedder – Best WordPress Document Embedder Plugin. 🔥 3D Viewer – Display interactive 3D models on the webs. 🔥 Advanced Post Block – Best Post Display Plugin for WordPress. Source Code You can find the source code, report bugs, and contribute to the development of this plugin on our GitHub repository: Audio Player Block on GitHub Third-Party Libraries bpl-tools Source / GitHub: https://github.com/bPlugins/bpl-tools License: GPL-2.0-or-later – https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Purpose: Shared utility library providing admin dashboard components and common Gutenberg editor controls. External Services: The library may connect to bPlugins, WordPress.org, and Freemius services for product data and checkout functionality. See full details: https://github.com/bPlugins/bpl-tools#external-requests–why-they-are-made

This plugin was previously called Spectra. It’s now Spectra Legacy. Nothing on your website has changed. Your blocks, pages, settings, and content all continue to work exactly as they did before. There’s nothing to migrate and nothing to configure. Spectra Legacy vs. Spectra Blocks We’ve split Spectra into two products. Spectra Legacy is this plugin — built for existing Spectra users. It receives security and compatibility updates and full support, but no new features. Spectra Blocks is a new, separate plugin where all new feature development happens, aimed at new installs and anyone who wants ongoing additions. If you’re already using this plugin, no action is needed; installing Spectra Blocks is entirely optional whenever you’re ready. If you’re already using this plugin, you don’t need to do anything. If you want new features as they’re released, you can install Spectra Blocks separately, whenever you’re ready. There’s no deadline and no required migration. What’s included Spectra Legacy includes the full block library your site is already built on: layout tools, content and post blocks, form and SEO blocks, social blocks, and site tools like Popup Builder and Coming Soon mode. Blocks included Core — Container, Heading, Image, Icon, Buttons, Info Box, Call To Action, Countdown Content — Sliders, Content Timeline, Google Maps, Inline Notices, Tabs, Taxonomy List, Price List (Loop Builder in Spectra Pro Legacy) Post — Counter, Modal Popup, Post Carousel, Post Grid, Post Timeline Social — Instagram Feed, Blockquote, Social Share, Team, Testimonials Forms — Contact form, newsletter signup, suggestion form, reCAPTCHA (registration/login forms in Spectra Pro Legacy) SEO — FAQ, How-To, Review, Table of Contents Dynamic content — Archive feed filtering by date, author, category, and post type Site tools — Popup Builder, Coming Soon mode, block animations, local Google Fonts, global styling defaults About the AI block The AI block previously included in this plugin is now called ZipAI. It still works in Spectra Legacy for compatibility. New AI features are being built in Spectra Blocks going forward. Compatibility Works with most standard WordPress themes, including Spectra One, Astra, Blocksy, and GeneratePress. Compatible with common plugins including WooCommerce, SureCart, Gravity Forms, LearnDash, MemberPress, and Yoast SEO. See our documentation for the full compatibility list. Support & community Spectra Legacy is actively maintained — security patches, compatibility updates, and support all continue. This plugin is not deprecated. Support forum: use the Support tab on this page Documentation: wpspectra.com/docs Facebook Group: Web Creators by Astra Facebook: Spectra X (Twitter): @wpspectra Contribute Spectra is open source. Browse the code or contribute on GitHub: brainstormforce/wp-spectra Credits Our external packages use Rating Star Component that are distributed under the terms of the ISC. While Slick, Lottie and Striptags is distributed under the terms of the MIT. Additionally, we incorporate FontAwesome v6 under the CC BY 4.0 License, and dnd kit licensed under the MIT License.