Scritch player

Scritch player is a simple HTML media player designed for ease of creation and customization. If you have a collection of audio files, simply drop them in and upload to a website to get a player to listen to it!

The original intention was to create a media player for musicians to use to upload their albums to itch.io. Something for them to easily copy/migrate their existing albums from sites like bandcamp.

How to

Scritch editor

The Scritch editor is a tool made to streamline this process. You can use it to create a Scritch player right in your browser, and see customization changes immediately.

Otherwise, manually setting up the player is just as easy.

Manual

1. Place audio files and cover art in the /media folder

2. Edit config.json to include the audio files. Add entries to the media array like so:

"media": [
    {
        "file": "track1.mp3",
        "title": "Track 1",
        "info": "(lyrics or other information can go here)",
        "feature": true
    },
    {
        "file": "track2.mp3",
        "title": "Track 2",
    },
    ...
]

3. Set the cover art file in config.json:

"cover": "cover.png"

4. (optional) Add a title to config.json, like so:

"title": "My Album"

5. (optional) Add a description to config.json, like so:

"description": "(add text here)"

6. (optional) Edit config.json to modify the player's theme to your liking:

"theme": {
    "coverSize": 480,
    "layoutStyle": "horizontal",
    "infoStyle": "overlaid",
    "titleStyle": "span",
    "contentWidth": 400,
    "nativePlayer": false
},

And that's it! you can upload the files to your website, or zip them up and upload to itch.io, or anywhere else that can host HTML projects.

config.json settings

note: all display-text options can include HTML, not just plain text

title (optional)

Text at the top of the player
"title": "My Album"

media

List of media files to include in the player

"media": [
    {"file": "track1.mp3", "title": "Track 1"},
    ...
]

cover (optional)

The name of the file in the /media folder for the cover image

description (optional)

The text at the bottom of the player

theme (optional)

An object containing theme settings and colors

media entry options

file

The name of the file in the /media folder

title (optional)

The name shown for this entry in the player.
Defaults to the file name if not specified

featured (optional)

If true, sets this file as the "featured" track, which will queue up first when loading the page.
Can be either true or false

type (optional)

The type of the media.
Can be either "audio" or "video"
Defaults to "audio"

info (optional)

Extra text for this file, such as for lyrics or artist attributions. This will be optionally shown over/under the cover image, or togglable below the track.

theme options

all settings are optional. colors can be any valid CSS color

titleStyle

Styles the title text, if available.
"none" (default) no styling
"span" title spans the entire width, centered.

backgroundColor

Color of the page background

primaryColor

Main color of the controls (e.g. the circle of the play button, the prev/next track buttons, the filled progress bar, etc.)

primaryAltColor

Color of e.g. the unfilled section of the progress bar and volume bar

secondaryColor

Secondary color of the controls (e.g. the triangle of the play button)

highlightColor

Background color of the selected track

primaryTextColor

Color of most text (e.g. titles, description, info, etc.)

primaryAltTextColor

Color of e.g. the track numbers and duration, and the track info button

linkColor

Color of links in text

layoutStyle

Styles the overall structure of the player
"horizontal" (default) the cover image sits to the right of the player controls and track list
"vertical" all elements align vertically (from top to bottom: title -> cover -> controls -> track list)

infoStyle

Styles the track info of the currently playing track
"overlaid" (default) text sits layered on top of the cover image
"below" text sits below the cover image (note: this will push down the controls and track list in a vertical layout)

contentWidth

Width of the column containing the controls, track list, and description

coverSize

Width of the cover image (non-square images will scale accordingly)

nativePlayer

Changes the player controls
false (default) custom player controls
true uses the browser's default audio player (also hides the player when a video is playing, the video's default controls will be available)

customCSS

Custom changes to the page's CSS