8 jQuery Best HTML5 Audio Player Plugins Examples with Tutorials

By: Suresh Dasari May 7, 2013

Introduction:

Here I will explain best HTML5 and jQuery audio player Plugins examples. The HTML5 & jQuery audio player Plugins will help us to embed audio files and play audio files in website with custom controls like forward, backward, increase / decrease volume.

Description:

In previous article I explained 8 HTML5 & jQuery Video Player Plugins, 6 jQuery News ticker plugin examples, 11+ best jQuery Scroll to top plugins, 8 jQuery clock plugin examples and many articles relating to jQuery Plugins, JQuery, Ajax, asp.net, SQL Server etc. Now I will explain best HTML5 and jQuery audio player Plugins examples.

HTML5 jQuery Music Player plugin

HTML5 Music Player is a jQuery plugin which allows you to play audio files.

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jPlayer – jQuery HTML5 Audio Player Plugin

jPlayer is the completely free and open source (GPL/MIT) media library written in JavaScript. A jQuery plugin, jPlayer allows you to rapidly weave cross platform audio and video into your web pages.

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drPlayer jQuery Audio Plugin

drPlayer is simple and free jQuery plugin for creating MP3 playlists.

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Simple HTML5 Audio Playlist Plugin

You can easly use CSS to style up this simple player by change of simpleplaylist.css or define it in your CSS files.

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SoundManager2

SoundManager 2 gives you a single, powerful API that supports both new and old, using HTML5 audio where supported and optional Flash-based fallback where needed. Ideally when using SoundManager 2, audio "just works."

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MediaElement plugin

A complete HTML/CSS audio/video player built on top MediaElement.js and jQuery. Many great HTML5 players have a completely separate Flash UI in fallback mode, but MediaElementPlayer.js uses the same HTML/CSS for all players.

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Audio.js plugin

Audio.js is a drop-in JavaScript library that allows HTML5’s <audio> tag to be used anywhere. It uses native <audio> where available and an invisible flash player to emulate <audio> for other browsers. It provides a consistent html player UI to all browsers which can be styled used standard CSS.