Is there a way to "display' an mp3 file directly in a post?

[Retread]

Forum URL: guitarnuts2.proboards.com/

What I need is something which will allow users of my forum to post their mp3 files in a similar fashion to posting a youtube video.

Here's an example using a file I hosted on Cloudinary:

res.cloudinary.com/gnuts2/video/upload/v1522844049/Guitar_Standard_Tuning.mp3

Clicking that link will open a new tab and the audio can be heard.  That's okay, but I would much rather it appear in the post and start when a button is pushed so it can be heard while reading the post.

Is there already some BBCode that exists which can be wrapped around it?
Additional coding or a plug-in?
other?

[Brian]

Hi, Retread.

While an audio BBCode tag exists it doesn't currently serve any function (which is why it isn't among the existing buttons), so for the time being there's no way to embed an audio file directly into a post without the use of a plugin.

[Brian]

I did a little digging and it turns out we do still output certain HTML if you input the BBCode a certain way, but the audio tags are output incorrectly and in the case of mp3 files old Javascript code that references a variable which no longer exists is being utilized.

This plugin I threw together finds and corrects all of those issues, but since it works based off of broken code it's highly susceptible to breaking in the future. But as long as none of the developers touch the source code related to how we output audio tags in posts you're good to go.

BBCode Usage:

[audio src="URL TO AUDIO FILE"]

Attachments:

audio Tag Support 1.pbp (2.71 KB)

[Retread]

Brian I very much appreciate the time you spent digging.  It's not as user-friendly as clicking the video button in the editor and getting the pop-up that allows us to paste the URL but it definitely gets the job done!

I'll keep my fingers crossed the developers don't need to change anything in the present system.

Do you suppose this might be a worthy Feature Request for v6?

[Michael]

Apr 4, 2018 13:49:12 GMT -8 Retread said:

Brian I very much appreciate the time you spent digging.  It's not as user-friendly as clicking the video button in the editor and getting the pop-up that allows us to paste the URL but it definitely gets the job done!

I'll keep my fingers crossed the developers don't need to change anything in the present system.

Do you suppose this might be a worthy Feature Request for v6?

I do believe audio file intergration is already on the list but I'll label this with the Feature Request label regardless. 

[Brian]

Apr 4, 2018 13:49:12 GMT -8 Retread said:

Brian I very much appreciate the time you spent digging.  It's not as user-friendly as clicking the video button in the editor and getting the pop-up that allows us to paste the URL but it definitely gets the job done!

I updated the post with a version that does exactly that.

[Retread]

I'm not gonna bother trying to find the words to describe the updated version.

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[Naj1]

Is there now an update to put an audio file into a post?  And is Cloudinary still a good place to upload an mp3 for this purpose?

[Craig]

There is no update on this particular feature, no, i'm afraid.