Turn on the audio library
Meditations, sessions or a podcast your members listen to with a player that follows them around your community.
- audio
- visibility
The audio library is a separate tab for things people listen to rather than watch. Meditations, mobility sessions, recorded coaching, a podcast for members only.
Two things make it different from a video lesson. There is no processing wait: a track plays the moment it finishes uploading. And the player lives in the frame of your community, so audio keeps playing while a member reads the feed or browses courses.
Switch the tab on
Customize, then Tabs, then the Audio row.
Once it is on, a Tab label field appears. Rename it to whatever your members would call it: Meditations, Sessions, Podcast. "Audio" is rarely the best word for it.
If your community is a few months old this tab is probably off. Newer ones start with it on.
Make a collection or two
Go to Audio in the sidebar, then the Collections tab. A collection is an album: Morning, Wind down, Week one.
Each takes a name, a description, and a wide banner image. Around 1600 by 600 pixels works well.
Upload a track
On the Tracks tab, drop in an MP3, WAV or M4A. There is no length limit.
Then fill in the details: a cover image or one of eight gradients, a title, a description, which collection it belongs to, and tags.
The only save button says Save as draft. That is on purpose. Nothing is visible until you publish it.
Publish it
Publishing makes it live and starts a transcript being written in the background, on every plan.
What members get
A library page with search, tags and your collections, plus a "Continue listening" row. The player sits at the bottom of the screen and stays there as they move around: play and pause, skip fifteen seconds, change speed, a sleep timer, and automatic play through a collection.
It also wires into their phone properly, so it shows on the lock screen and their headphone buttons work.
Common questions
Why does audio not need processing when video does?
Audio files are small enough to stream as they are. Video has to be converted into several quality levels so it plays smoothly on a phone with a weak signal.
Can I replace the file on an existing track?
No. Delete the track and upload a new one. You can edit everything else, including the title, description and cover.
Can members listen in a podcast app?
On the Growth plan, yes. Each member gets a private link that stops working when their access ends. Note that episodes they already downloaded stay on their device, so leave it off if your audio should never leave the community.
Is there a size limit?
Not a practical one for the audio library. An audio lesson inside a course is capped at 200 MB, which is a different thing.