Royal Audio Player

What is Royal Audio Player?

Royal Audio Player is a powerful and extremely customizable responsive mp3 / audio / video / youtube player for your website that can be installed in any type of web page, it runs on all major browsers and mobile devices like iPhone, iPad, IOS, Android, Windows mobile or desktop. Royal Audio Player supports unlimited playlists and each playlist can have unlimited tracks, also it can play mp4 videos and youtube videos. The playlists can be loaded from a simple HTML markup, XML file, mp3 folder, Podcasts, Official.fm, Youtube and SoundCloud playlist. Packed with huge amount of features like, extensive external API, deeplinking, popup window, multiple share buttons, customizable skin, Shoutcast and Icecast support, Youtube and mp4 / HTML5 video support, HTTP Live Streaming / HLS / m3u8 audio support, it is the most impressive and complete audio / mp3 / mp4 / youtube player available on sale.

Audio spectrum visualizer with 4 presets and customizable color theme.

Royal Audio Player main features:

Responsive layout.

Google Analytics support, the possibility to view how many times a track was played or downloaded, please watch this video tutorial for more info.

Mobile and desktop optimized.

Uninterrupted audio playback across web pages (popup player in a separate window and browse the web while listening to music without interuptions!).

Optional custom playlists / categories combo-box selector / select drop-down box.

Optional deeplinking (unique and sharable link for the current playlist and track).

Load any type of playlist through XML, HTML markup, mp3 folder, Podcasts, Official.fm, Youtube or SoundCloud.

Playlist from folder, create playlists from folders with .mp3 files plus ID3 metadata detection.

SHOUTCAST & ICECAST support. Play your favorite online radio directly in the player, of course shoutcast playlists can be created with ease! (only mp3 stream supported) Example of a shoutcast play at this link.

Optional support for mp4 videos and youtube videos with optional fullscreen button.

The HTML markup playlists can be created manulay or generated from a database.

Support for unlimited playlists and each playlist can have unlimited tracks.

Logic to allow only a logged in user to play / view the video.

Optional playlist and playlist window selector.

Support for playlists with mixed content from different sources (Youtube, Soundcloud or self hosted, local or streaming mp3 adio and mp4 video files.

Support sources from Google Drive, Amazon S3 and prety much all services and servers that allows access to a mp3 stream.

Three type of hover effects for the playlist window selector thumbnails.

Optional playlist and playlist window selector auto open (the player can start with the playlist or playlist window selector visible or hidden).

Customizable playlist window selector thumbnails.

Optional playlist item download and buy mp3 buttons (this buttons can be removed / added globally or individually for each track).

Playlist visible tracks limit (choose how many tracks to view in the playlist, the rest if any are scrollable).

Animated track title text if the text does not fit.

Six skins included along with the psd files.

A to B audio / video loop / ab loop, option to loop a specific section / part of a track (audio or video) using two time / timestamp points, point a the start point and point b the end point, this points can be adjusted using the a to b loop controlbar. This feature can be seen in action by playing this track, click the play button and the then the a to b loop button from the controlbar.

HTTP Live Streaming / HLS / m3u8 audio support on all browsers mobile and desktop, example of a HLS / m3u8 audio file play at this link.

Optional keyboard support (LEFT/RIGHT ARROWS:skip video 5 seconds forward or backward, UP/DOWN ARROWS: volume up or volume down, M:mute/unmute, SPACE:play/pause).

Optional start at random track.

Only mp3 file required to play audio across all devices.

Support for encrypted track (audio / video) paths, for example the path content/videos/fwd-720p.mp3 will be encrypted to encrypt:70de891f83b42a958770b738fd3b66f2 this way it will be impossible to steal the track by crawling the page source.

Private password protected tracks, example here. Test password is Melinda.

Optional start playing at a specific time and / or stop playing at a specific time.

Lazy scrolling / loading, the posibility to initialize RAP on scroll when the product is visible in the page, this way for example if the product is in a section of a webpage that is not visible it will not be initialized, instead the RAP will be initalized only when the user is scrolling to that section in which RAP is added.

Optional randomize / shuffle playlist, this feature allows to start with a random / shuffled playlist every time the page is visited.

Optional playback rate / speed button and playback rate / speed control window.

Possibility to start or stop a track at a specified time.

Two new methods in the API setPlaybackRate and scrubbAtTime.

Option to start playing a track after the playlist has loaded and autoplay is not enabled.

Documentation (added section about how to get a mp3 / mp4 source from google drive, more API methods, etc).

HEX / CSS color support, the buttons colors can be modified with simple CSS by passing a hexadecimal color(ex: #FF0000) and even more, we have done it in a cool way that all graphics will retain the texture and at the same time apply the chosen color.

Optional search bar and sort buttons.

Playlist loaded tracks limit (maximum number of tracks to be loaded).

The option to start at a specific playlist and track.

Powerful API included.

The possibility to add tracks in the playlist at runtime using the API.

You can include multiple instances on the same page.

Multiple instances automatically pause/stop playback when new track is started.

Start volume value.

Autoplay.

Shuffle, loop or play next track once the current track has finished to play.

Optional track thumbnail (this can be disabled globally or individually for each track).

Playlist button (optional).

Playlist selector button (optional).

Shuffle button (optional).

Optional download mp3 button located in the control bar (this button can be removed/added globally or individually for each track).

Optional buy mp3 button located in the control bar (this button can be removed/added globally or individually for each track, also it can open a custom url or a javascript function).

Loop button (optional).

Share button and share window with multiple social media sharing websites (optional).

Pop-up player button (optional).

Equalizer animation (optional).

Loop button (optional).

Share button and share window with multiple social media sharing websites (optional).

Pop-up player button (optional).

Equalizer animation (optional).

Animated track title text if the text does not fit.

Main scrubber and volume scrubber informational tooltips.

Six skins included along with the psd files.

Detailed documentation and sample files.

What our clients are saying:

Updates log:

Version 6.4 Release Date 15.08.2023

• Removed YouTube UI elements (Title/Share/Watch later/Related videos/Logo).

Version 6.3 Release Date 30.07.2023

• Update Google Analytics to version 4, video tutorial here.

Version 6.1 Release Date 25.05.2023

• Update Youtube API to the latest specifications.

Version 6.0 Release Date 05.05.2020

• Added audio spectrum visualizer with 4 presets and customizable color theme.
• Added option to adjust the playlist tracks height directly in the player settings.
• Added vector icons skin.
• Added option to popup the player when the play button is clicked.
• Added logic to prevent a user to play or download all tracks or a specific track if not logged in.
• Added support for Google Drive video (.mp4) and audio (.mp3) using Google Drive API. Using this method the video or audio used from Google Drive will work on all devices without any restrictions or expiring links video tutorial here.
• Added youtube API key feature.
• Update the entire Shoutcast and Icecast engine so that is more robust and works better, also created a video tutorial about how to install your own CORS PROXY server if you are using a SSL website and want to load non secure Shoutcast or Icecast streams.
• Improved overall design and fix various bugs.

Version 5.7 Release Date 21.05.2019

• Added support for hubhopper.co, generate playlists from podcasts URL from hubhopper.co.

Version 5.6 Release Date 09.05.2019

• Added direct download on an Android devices, now if a track is downloaded it will be saved on the device in the download folder just like on a desktop machine.
• Added A to B audio / video loop / ab loop, option to loop a specific section / part of a track (audio or video) using two time / timestamp points, point a the start point and point b the end point, this points can be adjusted using the a to b loop controlbar. This feature can be seen in action by playing this track, click the play button and the then the a to b loop button from the controlbar.
• Added main scrubber and volume scrubber informational tooltips.
• Fixed autoplay issue related to chrome autoplay policy, the track will start playing when the page is loaded if autoplay is set to yes.

Version 5.5 Release Date 09.08.2018

• Added Google Analytics support, the possibility to view how many times a track was played or downloaded, please watch this video tutorial for more info..

Version 5.3 Release Date 01.07.2018

• Added the logic to allow only a logged in user to play the current track.

Version 5.2 Release Date 21.06.2018

• HTTP Live Streaming / HLS / m3u8 audio support on all browsers mobile and desktop using pure javascript this will make sure that HLS will work across all browsers mobile or desktop without any issues, example of a HLS / m3u8 audio file play at this link.
• Optional keyboard support (LEFT/RIGHT ARROWS:skip video 5 seconds forward or backward, UP/DOWN ARROWS: volume up or volume down, M:mute/unmute, SPACE:play/pause).

Version 5.1 Release Date 17.07.2018

• Added support for loading shoutcast and icecast servers based on the server URL, as well the option to load adns how the current playing song title and song image / thumbnail artwork.

Version 5.0 Release Date 29.04.2018

• Added optional search box for the categories / playlists window grid.

Version 4.9 Release Date 08.02.2018

• Added playlist loop option, when the last track has finished playing it can be set to play the first track (loop) or skip to the next playlist playing the first track.

Version 4.8 Release Date 20.12.2017

• Added support for Shoutcast and Icecast direct requests to Server via JSONP / fast and automatic update this way RAP will display the current song title played on your radio station.

Version 4.7 Release Date 27.10.2017

• Added optional lazy scrolling / loading, the posibility to initialize RAP on scroll when the product is visible in the page, this way for example if the product is in a section of a webpage that is not visible it will not be initialized, instead the RAP will be initalized only when the user is scrolling to that section in which RAP is added..
• Fixed bug related to the playlist combobox / selector if the height of it is too small.

Version 4.6 Release Date 03.10.2017

• Added support for encrypted track (audio / video) paths, for example the path content/videos/fwd-720p.mp3 will be encrypted to encrypt:70de891f83b42a958770b738fd3b66f2 this way it will be impossible to steal the track by crawling the page source.
• Private password protected tracks, example here. Test password is Melinda.
• Optional start playing at a specific time and / or stop playing at a specific time.
• Added optional randomize / shuffle playlist, this feature allows to start with a random / shuffled playlist every time the page is visited.
• Added optional playback rate / speed button and playback rate / speed control window.
• Added the possibility to start or stop a track at a specified time.
• Added two new methods in the API setPlaybackRate and scrubbAtTime.
• Added the option to start playing a track after the playlist has loaded and autoplay is not enabled.
• Updated documentation (added section about how to get a mp3 / mp4 source from google drive, more API methods, etc).

Version 4.5 Release Date 10.07.2017

• Added optional custom playlists / categories combo-box selector / select drop-down box.
• Added SoundCloud API key in the constructor this way it is easy to replace it.

Version 4.4 Release Date 29.06.2017

• Added HTTP Live Streaming / HLS / m3u8 audio support on all browsers mobile and desktop. On the browsers that dosen’t have native HLS support adobe flash player is used.

Version 4.3 Release Date 22.04.2017

• Added the option to start at a random track after the playlist load.
• Fixed scrolling bug on mobile devices.

Version 4.2 Release Date 09.04.2017

• HEX / CSS color support, the buttons colors can be modified with simple CSS by passing a hexadecimal color(ex:#FF0000) and even more, we have done it in a cool way that all graphics will retain the texture and at the same time apply the chosen color.
• Added support for mp4 video
• Added optional fullscreen button for the youtube and mp4 videos.
• Added video controller for the videos when they are in full screen mode
• Added new option in the API to add a track in the playlist at runtime

Version 4.1 Release Date 20.03.2017

• Added support for Youtube, now RAP can load Youtube playlists or single Youtube videos.
• Added support for loading Soundcloud tracks.
• Added support for mixed playlists, now is easy to create playlists that contains Youtube or / and Soundcloud or / and self hosted or streaming mp3 files.
• Added optional support to disable the main scrubbar.
• Fixed volume bar on mobile devices.
• Fixed various minor bugs.

Version 4.0 Release Date 04.10.2016

• Added new share window.
• Improved error window.
• Fixed code minor bugs.

Version 3.0 Release Date 07.10.2014

• Added optional counting numbers to each track (track ordering).
• Added optional playlist search bar.
• Added optional playlist sort buttons.
• Added auto-updates checker functionality.

Version 2.0 Release Date 13.07.2014

• Added optional buy button located in the control bar (this button can be removed/added globally or individually for each track, also it can open a custom url or a javascript function).
• Added optional playlist items buy button (this button can be removed/added globally or individually for each track, also it can open a custom url or a javascript function).
• Improved Soundcloud support, now RAP can load and play user tracks, single track, playlists, favorites and groups.
• Fixed minor bugs.

Version 1.1 Release Date 5.06.2014

• Added support for loading / generating a playlist from a folder with mp3 files.
• Fixed minor bugs.

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