Creating a Player

Introduction

In MixFlip, a “Player” is a playlist of songs that you embed in one particular spot on your website. Even if you’re only trying to show the “before and after” of one song, you can still create a player and add the song to it.

Creating a Player

To create a player, click on the “Players” tab in the MixFlip dashboard and click on the “New Player” button in the top right.

This will open up a dialog where you enter the name of the player. We’ll add the rest of the player’s information in the next step. When you’re ready, click “Save and Next”.

Adding Player Content

Adding Songs

After you’ve created the player’s record in the database, you’ll be redirected to the player’s edit page.

As you can see, the player is empty. We need to add some songs to the player. To do this, click the plus icon in the “Add New” card.

This will open up a dialog where you can select the songs you want to add to the player. You can also search for songs by song name.

Songs with Missing Before or After Audio

All songs require both a before and after audio file to be displayed on the player. If a song in your library doesn’t have an audio file, you’ll see a message in the dialog. You can keep it in this playlist, but it won’t be displayed on the player.

As you can see in the screenshot above, the song “At My Worst” doesn’t have an audio file. It’s still in the playlist of songs for when we fix the missing audio issue, but it won’t be displayed on the player.

Changing the Order of Songs

You can change the order of the songs in the player by using the up and down arrows in a song’s card.

Customizing the Player Appearance

The player’s appearance can be customized in the appearance settings card.

Right now, the only things you can customize are the accent color (for buttons and playhead), the option to show the MixFlip branding (Pro plans only), and the ability to customize how you label the before and after audio.

Custom Before and After Audio Labels

How you label the before and after audio is up to you. If you provide mixing services, you might want to call them “Before Mixing” and “After Mixing”. If you’re providing mastering services, you might want to call them “Before Mastering” and “After Mastering”. If you’re a producer, you could call them “Demo Bounce” and “Final Master” – it’s up to you!

Adding a Player to Your Website

Once you’re happy with your player, you can add it to your website. To do this, just copy the player’s embed code from the player’s edit page and paste it into your website builder.

In most website builders, you add a block or widget called “html” or “custom code” and paste the embed code into it. Sometimes website builders won’t preview external scripts, so you may have to save the code to your website page and view it in the live version of your website.