React Audio Player

This is a light React wrapper around the HTML5 audio tag. It provides the ability to manipulate the player and listen to events through a nice React interface.

Installation

npm install --save react-audio-player

Also be sure you have react and react-dom installed in your app at version 15 or above.

Usage

import ReactAudioPlayer from 'react-audio-player';
//...
<ReactAudioPlayer
  src="my_audio_file.ogg"
  autoPlay
  controls
/>

Example

See the example directory for a basic working example of using this project. To run it locally, run npm install in the example directory and then npm start.

Props

Props - Native/React Attributes

See the audio tag documentation for detailed explanations of these attributes.

Prop	Type	Default	Notes
autoPlay	Boolean	false	---
children	Element	null	---
className	String	empty string	---
controls	Boolean	false	---
crossOrigin	String	empty string	See MDN's article on CORS for more about this attribute.
controlsList	String	empty string	For Chrome 58+. Only available in React 15.6.2+
id	String	empty string	---
loop	Boolean	false	---
muted	Boolean	false	---
volume	Number	1.0	---
preload	String	'metadata'	---
src	String	empty string	---
style	Object	---	---

Props - Events

Prop	Type	Description
listenInterval	Number	Indicates how often to call the onListened prop during playback, in milliseconds. Default is 10000.
onAbort	Function	called when unloading the audio player, like when switching to a different src file. Passed the event.
onCanPlay	Function	called when enough of the file has been downloaded to be able to start playing. Passed the event.
onCanPlayThrough	Function	called when enough of the file has been downloaded to play through the entire file. Passed the event.
onEnded	Function	called when playback has finished to the end of the file. Passed the event.
onError	Function	called when the audio tag encounters an error. Passed the event.
onListen	Function	called every listenInterval milliseconds during playback. Passed the event.
onPause	Function	called when the user pauses playback. Passed the event.
onPlay	Function	called when the user taps play. Passed the event.
onSeeked	Function	called when the user drags the time indicator to a new time. Passed the event.
onVolumeChanged	Function	called when the user changes the volume, such as by dragging the volume slider
onLoadedMetadata	Function	called when the metadata for the given audio file has finished downloading. Passed the event.

Advanced Usage

Access to the audio element

You can get direct access to the underlying audio element. First get a ref to ReactAudioPlayer:

<ReactAudioPlayer
  ref={(element) => { this.rap = element; }}
/>

Then you can access the audio element like this:

this.rap.audioEl

This is especially useful if you need access to read-only attributes of the audio tag such as buffered and played. See the audio tag documentation for more on these attributes.