About
An audio player for voice replies and recordings: play and pause, a scrubbable progress bar, elapsed and total time, skip back and playback speed, compact enough to sit under a message.
Built with React and Tailwind. Copy the prompt and paste it into Claude Code, Cursor or Lovable: your agent adds Audio Player to your project and fits it to your theme.
Code
How Audio Player is used: the demo's code. The component's own source comes with a free account.
Usage.tsx
"use client"
import * as React from "react"
import { AudioPlayer } from "@/components/ui/audio-player"
const FIT_CSS = "html,body{overflow:hidden}[data-fit-small] [data-fit-hide]{display:none!important}"
/**
* 21st shows a demo in a small frame: about 674 by 421 on a component page, 358 by 224 on a
* phone and 245 by 139 on a profile card. A demo taller than its frame gets scrollbars, which
* render white on dark pages. FitFrame fills the frame exactly instead.
*
* - "scale": the content shrinks until it fits, centered. For visuals such as orbs.
* - "crop": the content stays at full size from the top and fades out at the bottom. For text
* that streams in, where a changing scale would make the page breathe.
*
* `minWidth` lays out a wide demo (a table, a two column panel) at that width and scales it down
* to the frame, instead of letting it collapse to a narrow layout. The frame centers it, so it
* shrinks evenly on both sides.
*
* Anything marked `data-fit-hide` (state buttons, the chatcn.dev line) drops out in frames
* shorter than `hideBelow`, so a profile card shows the visual alone.
*/
function FitFrame({
children,
mode = "scale",
hideBelow = 360,
minWidth,
}: {
children: React.ReactNode
mode?: "scale" | "crop"
hideBelow?: number
minWidth?: string
}) {
const content = React.useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null)
const [cropped, setCropped] = React.useState(false)
React.useLayoutEffect(() => {
const el = content.current
if (!el) return
const measure = () => {
const vw = window.innerWidth
const vh = window.innerHeight
el.toggleAttribute("data-fit-small", vh < hideBelow)
// Layout sizes ignore the transform, so measuring never feeds back.
const w = Math.max(el.offsetWidth, el.scrollWidth)
const h = Math.max(el.offsetHeight, el.scrollHeight)
const scale = mode === "scale" ? Math.min(1, vw / w, vh / h) : 1
el.style.transform = scale < 1 ? `scale(${scale})` : ""
setCropped(mode === "crop" && h > vh + 1)
}
measure()
const observer = new ResizeObserver(measure)
observer.observe(el)
// Content that changes inside a fixed width box (a headline that cycles words) never resizes
// the box itself, so changes below it measure again on the next frame.
let frame = 0
const mutations = new MutationObserver(() => {
cancelAnimationFrame(frame)
frame = requestAnimationFrame(measure)
})
mutations.observe(el, { subtree: true, childList: true, characterData: true })
window.addEventListener("resize", measure)
return () => {
observer.disconnect()
mutations.disconnect()
cancelAnimationFrame(frame)
window.removeEventListener("resize", measure)
}
}, [mode, hideBelow])
const fade = "linear-gradient(to bottom, #000 calc(100% - 40px), transparent)"
return (
<div
className="flex w-full justify-center overflow-hidden"
style={{
height: "100dvh",
alignItems: mode === "crop" ? "flex-start" : "center",
maskImage: cropped ? fade : undefined,
WebkitMaskImage: cropped ? fade : undefined,
}}
>
<style>{FIT_CSS}</style>
<div
ref={content}
className="w-full shrink-0"
style={{ transformOrigin: mode === "crop" ? "top center" : "center", minWidth }}
>
{children}
</div>
</div>
)
}
const DURATION = 74
/**
* Read aloud for an agent answer. Speech takes a moment to generate, then plays on a simulated
* clock (no audio file needed); speed changes the clock rate. With a real file, pass `src`.
*/
function AudioPlayerDemo() {
const [preparing, setPreparing] = React.useState(true)
const [playing, setPlaying] = React.useState(false)
const [time, setTime] = React.useState(0)
const [rate, setRate] = React.useState(1)
React.useEffect(() => {
const id = window.setTimeout(() => setPreparing(false), 1200)
return () => window.clearTimeout(id)
}, [])
React.useEffect(() => {
if (!playing) return
let last = performance.now()
let raf = 0
const tick = (now: number) => {
const dt = ((now - last) / 1000) * rate
last = now
setTime((t) => {
if (t + dt >= DURATION) {
setPlaying(false)
return DURATION
}
return t + dt
})
raf = requestAnimationFrame(tick)
}
raf = requestAnimationFrame(tick)
return () => cancelAnimationFrame(raf)
}, [playing, rate])
return (
<div className="flex w-full max-w-lg flex-col gap-4">
<div className="text-[0.9375rem]/[1.5rem] tracking-[-0.006em] text-(color:--chatcn-fg) flex flex-col gap-3 text-pretty">
<p>
The deploy failed at the type check. A change to the billing webhook handler passes a
nullable customer ID into <code className="font-mono text-[0.9em]">createInvoice</code>,
which expects a string.
</p>
<p className="text-(color:--chatcn-fg-muted)">
I added a guard that throws a typed error with the event ID, plus a regression test that
replays the payload from this morning. The pipeline is green again.
</p>
</div>
<AudioPlayer
title="Why the deploy failed"
meta="Read aloud · Marlo"
status={preparing ? "loading" : "ready"}
playing={playing}
onPlayingChange={setPlaying}
currentTime={time}
duration={preparing ? 0 : DURATION}
onSeek={setTime}
playbackRate={rate}
onPlaybackRateChange={setRate}
/>
</div>
)
}
/** The line under each 21st demo that points back to the kit. */
function MoreOn({ slug, children }: { slug: string; children: React.ReactNode }) {
return (
<p data-fit-hide className="text-[0.75rem]/[1rem] text-(color:--chatcn-fg-faint) text-center text-balance">
{children}{" "}
<a
href={`https://chatcn.dev/docs/components/${slug}`}
target="_blank"
rel="noopener"
className="text-(color:--chatcn-fg-subtle) hover:text-(color:--chatcn-fg) underline underline-offset-2"
>
chatcn.dev
</a>
</p>
)
}
/** The kit's own example, framed for the 21st preview. */
export default function AudioPlayerPreview() {
return (
<FitFrame minWidth="34rem">
<div className="flex w-full flex-col items-center justify-center gap-4 p-6">
<div className="flex w-full max-w-2xl justify-center">
<AudioPlayerDemo />
</div>
<MoreOn slug="audio-player">An audio player for voice replies and recordings. On</MoreOn>
</div>
</FitFrame>
)
}








