Custom interactions and music player

I have a little more to add here regarding a Custom Interaction solution.

I’ve added support for creating mute/unmute and volume up/down rules so you can create your own UI for those buttons, which can be used for both audio and video (local) Brics.

I’ll post the example file once I’ve wrapped up with Blocs 6.0.5 and it’s released.

A little step further forward…

Just need a button to wrap this all up as a reusable Bric and we are in business :sunglasses:

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That’s looks great!!!

I’d love it if it looked a little like an iPod ! With songs we could select in the screen! Shuffle etc ‘ :joy:

I think you could probably do that actually, this may be my ongoing challenge for Custom Interactions. Eventually we might have iTunes.

On a more serious note, it highlights the fact that Blocs may eventually allow users to create web apps with no/low code.

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As promised here is the custom audio player MKII using the new custom interaction stuff from Blocs 6.0.5.

• A volume output to show the level would be nice.
• Also a track switcher that populates the audio title, artwork etc.

Download Custom Music Player MKII.bloc (4.1 MB)

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GREAT work!
Can’t wait to see it when back on my Mac! Sounds great.

I’m with wondering………if a Spotify playlist could be imported in by using the links they provide - for artists, bands and podcasters this would be great! Or even people wanting to do a fan pages for acts etc……Hmmmmmmmm

Can music be played automatically when you load up a page? I am running creative boutique and we also do music, I would love to find simple way to have our music play in the background while browsing our work. Again, I definitely do not code, want to use Blocs as intended - drag and drop approach. Is there a video about this if the ffte exists? What would even help is to play video in the as mai image in background with music.

Yeah that can be done with the Interaction Manager.

If you follow this video on the Blocs Academy and replace the video player rule with an audio player rule you will be able to auto play music when the user enters a particular part of the website.

If you just want a straight up play music the moment the page loads, that is also possible but would required a slightly different approach.

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Thank you Norm. Appreciate it. Would love to play video with music - quicktime loop once thepage is loaded - in background, main page. Will try your suggestion.

Would be great to have a possibility to play videos with music as you scroll down the page and different videos automatically start to play with music along the way down as you move to section. I do have a lot of short videos and linking to YT / Vimeo is not always the best option for me. Plus people do not want to click anymore (

You could adapt the interaction to do that. You may need a few interactions, but this is all very possible with custom interactions.