Editing the media player on your Podpage

Podpage automatically includes a media player on every episode page (and, depending on your header style, on your homepage). Here's how the default player is chosen and how to change it.

The default player

  • Podpage uses its own built-in audio player on every site. It matches your site's colors and supports clickable timestamps, chapters, resume and lock-screen controls. See Using the built-in Podpage audio player.
  • If you turn the Podpage player off, Podpage uses the media player from your podcast hosting service (Buzzsprout, Libsyn, and so on) whenever it can, and falls back to a standard HTML5 player that works in all mobile browsers when your host's player isn't available.

There's no built-in way to recolor or restyle your host's embedded player from Podpage — its appearance comes from your host, so check their player settings for styling options.

Switching to your host's player site-wide

Prefer your host's own player? Go to Settings → Media Player and turn off Use Podpage's Audio Player. You can turn it back on any time. The same page has a Show Download Button on Audio Player option for the Podpage player.

Using a different player for one episode

  1. In your dashboard, go to Episodes → All Episodes and click Edit on the episode.
  2. Scroll down to Custom Media Player Embed HTML Code.
  3. Paste the embed code for the player you want and click Save. That code is used for this episode only.

Custom Media Player field on the episode edit page

Tip: You can also choose whether episode pages show the audio player, the video player, or both — open the Episode Pages editor (under Pages → Episodes) and look for the Media Player section.