PLUGIN IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED NOR MAINTAINED
Soundy Background Music allows any page or post to play a background music while it is displayed.
Having a home page or any other page playing a background music greatly improves your website visitor's experience. By choosing a music in adequacy with your content, Soundy will help making your visitors immersed in your pages. Pages with a slideshow are excellent candidates for Soundy. But a lot of other page types too.
A Play/Pause button can be displayed anywhere in the pages and posts. Do you need a Play/Pause button that perfectly fits your website design ? Consider
Soundy Background Music PRO.
Each page or post can have its own soundtrack. The soundtrack is embedded in the page by means of the HTML 5 audio tag. This way, the plugin is compatible with all modern user devices (smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops of all vendors).
A background music can be associated with all pages and posts or with individual pages or posts.
If you want your pages and posts to play more than one soundtrack, consider
Soundy Audio Playlist Plugin.
Defaults can be set by the administrator in the settings page of the plugin. Specific post and page plugin settings can be configured by the authors in the Edit Page and Edit Post pages. In the plugin settings page, an audio track can be set per default.
The audio track can be anywhere on the web as it is specified with its URL. It can also be uploaded in the media library of the WP site.
A play and pause button image can be uploaded by the administrator to replace the default one and can be positioned anywhere. The Play/Pause button can be positioned in any of the four corners of the HTML document or in any of the four corners of the browser window. It can also be positioned with a template tag typically in the document header or with a shortcode in the content.
Soundy Free Version Features
- A soundtrack can be specified by the site administrator per default for all pages and posts.
- The default soundtrack can be overriden by page and post authors with a custom one for any page or post.
- Default Play/Pause button images can be overriden by the site administrator. He can upload these images or just specify their URLs.
- Full Control for the site administrator over Play/Pause button positioning.
- Play/Pause Button Preview in the context of any page or post.
- Play/Pause Button size and positioning can be made responsive in the Play/Pause Responsiveness tab of the plugin settings page.
- Audio Volume Control for site administrator as well as page/post authors.
- Auto Play Option.
- Audio Loop Option.
Soundy PRO Version Features
- Same features as the free version.
- HTML5 Play/Pause Button Designer allowing control over:
- Button colors
- Button size
- Button outline
- Button rounding
- Button transparency
- Seamlessly integrated button designer allows the Play/Pause button to precisely and exactly fit any website design.
Here are examples of Soundy Background Music implementations:
In Magali Bourquin's Soundy Background Music implementation, the background sound is enabled for all pages but only the homepage has the Autoplay option set. As for the Play/Pause button, custom images have been uploaded to replace the default ones and the button is statically positioned with a call to the soundy_button() function from the header.php file.
Docs & Support
You can find
Tutorial,
FAQ,
Examples and more detailed information about
Soundy plugin on
WebArtisan.ch. If you were unable to find the answer to your question on the FAQ or in any of the documentation, you should check
Soundy's Support Forum on
WordPress.org. If you can't locate any topics that pertain to your particular issue, post a new topic for it.
Soundy Background Music Plugin Home Page:
webartisan.ch/en/products/soundy-background-music/free-wordpress-plugin
Changelog
3.9 - January 14th, 2017
- Fixed error messages sent to error log when posts or pages were added.
3.8 - November 11th, 2016
- Made plugin compatible with SSL.
3.7 - October 7th, 2016
- Fixed bug that prevented plugin metabox to appear in admin edit pages when website had a path to html root directory.
3.6 - August 17th, 2016
- Corrected PHP bug related to choice of Play/Pause Button Corner.
3.5 - August 8th, 2016
- Corrected bug related to strpos PHP function.
- Corrected bug that prevented Media Library buttons to work.
3.4 - Juli 7th, 2016
- Play/Pause button images dimensions are now displayed in the Play/Pause Button tab of the plugin settings.
- Default values are now displayed as comment in the plugin metabox in posts and pages.
3.3 - June 10th, 2016
- Load performance increased by removing link prefetch statement on audio file.
3.2 - March 10th, 2016
3.1 - March 3rd, 2015
- Media Library button calls now new WordPress File Uploader.
3.0 - January 3rd, 2015
- Play/Pause button size and corner positioning can now be made responsive in "Button Responsiveness" tab of plugin settings page.
2.7 - December 20th, 2014
- Fixed bug on the front-end appearing in themes using Ajax to reload only the content part of the pages when the visitor navigates on the website.
2.6 - September 12th, 2014
- Set z-index CSS property to 99999 on play/pause button, so that it always appears on top of any other HTML elements.
2.5 - July 28th, 2014
- Fixed bug introduced in 2.4: Soundy's metabox in Edit Page/Post did merge with other metaboxes.
2.4 - July 23rd, 2014
- Input fields of Soundy Background Music Metabox are now distributed in tabs in Edit Page and Edit Post pages.
- If Audio URL does not end with audio file extension, administrators and authors can now specify the audio type.
- Insertion of multiple Play/Pause buttons is now supported.
- Play/Pause button in corner can now be disabled in the Soundy Background Music Settings (Play/Pause Button Corner Position tab) as well as in the Soundy Background Music metabox in the Edit Page and Edit Post pages.
2.3 - May 11th, 2014
- Made admin user interface a little bit more attractive. No functionality change.
2.2 - May 4th, 2014
- Fixed bug introduced in 2.0: in the admin plugins page, all plugins had a Settings link pointing to Soundy's settings because of a bug in soundy.php.
2.1 - April 26th, 2014
- Corrected major bug introduced in 2.0: when Soundy was installed for the first time: the default audio file URL and the default four play/pause button image URLs were undefined.
2.0 - April 23rd, 2014
- Object Oriented Redesign of the whole plugin.
- Added Play/Pause Button Preview in Context of any Page or Post in Settings > Soundy > Play/Pause Button Tab.
- Added Play/Pause Button Preview in Context of any Page or Post in Settings > Soundy > Play/Pause Corner Position Tab.
- Added Swap Button in Settings > Soundy > Play/Pause Button Tab to swap the URLs of the normal and hover images.
- Fixed minor bug in New Page and New Post Soundy metabox.
- Soundy Background Music PRO and its HTML5 Play/Pause Button Designer application is now available.
1.2 - March 17th, 2014
- Added Audio Volume Control for administrators in Settings > Soundy.
- Added Audio Volume Control for authors in Edit Page and Edit Post Soundy meta box.
- Made Admin User Interface more responsive and user friendlier.
1.1 - March 12th, 2014
- Corrected a few minor bugs
- Made Soundy forms of the back-end admin section more responsive
- Added possibility to disable Soundy for mobile devices. Set variable $disable_soundy_for_mobile to true in soundy.php file to disable Soundy for mobile devices.
1.0 - March 4th, 2014