We recently developed a WordPress web site for a religious organisation that wants to make their self hosted preaching clips behave in the following way:
- Categorised by topic (playlist)
- Single ‘set and forget’ auto placement of new clips
- With an immediately visible Download button
- No intention of selling the clips or monetising in other ways
- No need for a Podcast Host
- The ability to send a mass notification to members of new clips.
- Not willing to spend money on a premium product
Plugins that we tried and didn’t fit the bill (mostly because the download button was hard to find or only a premium feature) were: Blubrry PowerPress, Compact Audio Player, Download Manager, HTML5 Audio Player, Podlove, Seriously Simple Podcasting and Audio Album
At the end of the day we found ONE (the last one, as everyone always says!) that fits the bill – AudioIgniter by the The CSSIgniter Team. AudioIgniter does not do mass mailing but that was sorted with another of our plugins.
What we would like to see in AudioIgniter is the ‘restriction’ to only allow logged in users to download clips.
What it says on AudioIgniter’s Box:
AudioIgniter is an MP3 music player that lets you create music playlists and embed them in your WordPress posts, pages or custom post types. By using the standard WordPress media upload functionality, you can create new audio playlists in minutes. Oh, you can use AudioIgniter to stream your radio show too!
Selling digital music?
You can combine AudioIgniter with WooCommerce to easily sell individual tracks.
Features:
- Supports audio and radio streaming
- Unlimited playlists
- Unlimited tracks
- 100% Compatible with Elementor
- 100% Compatible with Visual Composer
- 100% Compatible with Gutenberg Block Editor
- Responsive layout
- Embed through shortcode
- Flexible settings per playlist
- Show/Hide track listing
- Show/Hide track numbers in tracklist
- Show numbers in reverse order
- Show/Hide track covers in playlist
- Show/Hide active track’s cover
- Show/Hide artist name
- Custom “Buy track” URL field
- Custom “Download” URL field
- “Full” or “Simple” player mode (Great for podcasts)
- Limit track listing height
- Repeat track listing option
- Maximum player width
- Automatic ID3 Tag extraction from MP3 files
- Heavily tested on the 150 most popular free themes on WordPress.org
Supported Services:
- Acast
- Amazon S3
- Anchor
- Art19
- AudioBoom
- Castbox
- Captivate
- Icecast
- Podbean
- Radiojar
- Shoutcast
- Speaker
- Stitcher
- Libsyn
All we did was drag a Mai Theme column block onto our home page, insert a playlist shortcode into each of the three columns and AudioIgniter does the rest.
There is also an AudioIgniter Pro Version available with prices ranging from $49 to $79 per annum or $249 once off for a lifetime licensee. All plans allow you to install AudioIgniter on unlimited web sites.
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