Drac's Audio Player 1.3.0

What it does​

XenForo plays an uploaded audio attachment with the browser's plain built-in bar. Drac's Audio Player replaces it with a proper player that reads the title, artist, album and cover picture straight out of the file, accepts FLAC, keeps playing in a mini player while you scroll, and plays the next track on its own.

Features​

• Tags and cover art from the file - title, artist, album, length, quality, lyrics and the embedded cover picture are read when a file is uploaded (MP3, FLAC, Ogg and WAV; no extra libraries or server programs needed). Cover pictures are scaled to 640 px and shown in the player and on the attachment tile.
• FLAC support - teaches XenForo that .flac is an audio type, so lossless files can be uploaded, streamed and seeked. Option to let audio use your (larger) video upload size limit, because a FLAC is roughly ten times the size of the same song as an MP3.
• Sticky mini player - while a track plays and its player has scrolled out of view, a slim bar along the bottom shows the cover with play/pause, previous and next.
• Queue and auto-next - the players on the page form a queue; when a track ends the next one starts. Visitors can turn on Repeat.
• Speed and loop controls - for every listener.
• Spectrum visualizer - a live spectrum behind the controls (visitors can switch it off; it is skipped for people whose system asks to reduce motion).
• Lyrics - a Lyrics button appears when the file carries lyrics, and lyrics with [mm:ss.xx] time stamps are highlighted line by line as the song plays.
• Lock-screen controls - play, pause, next and previous from a phone's lock screen and the media keys, where the browser supports them.
• One player for the whole page - so "next track" keeps working on phones.
• Download button - optional.
• Safe fallback - if scripts are off, the browser's own player is still there.
• Scans old uploads - an Admin CP tool reads tags and covers for audio uploaded before the add-on.

What's new​

• 1.3.0 (Nov 2026) - this add-on can now be bought on its own for $5.00 with its own license key, or as part of the six-add-on set with the universal key.
• 1.2.x (Oct 2026) - all settings now live under one Drac's Addons menu in the Admin CP, with a single License key page.
• 1.1.x (Oct 2026) - license key check and a support form at Drac's Shop for license holders.
• 1.0.0 (Oct 2026) - first release.

Requirements​

XenForo 2.3.13 or newer. "Allow video and audio uploads" must be switched on in Setup -> Options -> Attachments, and your web server needs to serve .flac files with an audio type if you want FLAC. Audio in the XenForo Media Gallery is left alone.

Price and license​

• This add-on on its own: $5.00 - you get this add-on and its own license key, which unlocks this add-on only.
• All six Drac's Shop add-ons: $20.00 - you get every add-on and one universal license key that unlocks all of them. That is $10 less than buying the six one by one ($30.00).
• Lifetime updates and support with every order - one payment, no subscription.
• One license key covers one forum domain.

Buy it here: Drac's Shop - after paying you land on a receipt page with your download link(s) and your license key.


How the license works

• Enter your key in the Admin CP under Drac's Addons -> License key. That one page holds every Drac key: the first box is the universal key (the six-add-on set); each installed add-on also has its own box, here named "Key for Drac's Audio Player only".
• If both boxes are filled in, the add-on's own key is the one it uses. A one-add-on key only unlocks the add-on it was bought for.
• Each add-on checks its key with the license server once a day, and again whenever the key or your forum's address changes. It sends only the key, your forum's domain name and the add-on's name - no member data and no forum content.
• If the license server cannot be reached, an add-on that was already licensed keeps working for 7 days.
• Without a valid key an add-on stays off and your forum behaves like stock XenForo; the add-on's settings page and the License key page tell you why.

Install​

1. Buy it at Drac's Shop and download the zip from your receipt page.
2. Admin CP -> Add-ons -> Install/upgrade from archive and upload the zip (do not unzip it).
3. Admin CP -> Drac's Addons -> License key and paste your key.
4. Find it under Drac's Addons -> Audio Player: the settings, and a status page that reads tags and covers from audio uploaded earlier.

Upgrading from an earlier version works the same way: upload the new zip over the old one. Back up your forum before installing or upgrading any add-on.

Support​

License holders can ask for help with the form at https://moonbloodgarden.com/vexcor/support - you will need your license key. Questions before you buy are welcome in this thread.

All the Drac's Shop add-ons live together under one Drac's Addons menu in the Admin CP: the first one you install creates the menu and the last one you uninstall removes it.