Aadi

Audio Player

Component

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>
  )
}

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