---
title: "A New Audio Web Component; Ballin’"
description: "I've gone and built a not-so-fancy audio component for my blog."
date: 2024-10-23
tags:
  - Music
  - Site Updates
synopsis: "I've gone and built a not-so-fancy audio component for my blog."
imageURL: /audio/covers/ballin.webp
imageAlt: An uncapped fountain pen on top of a pretty, gold-foiled pad of paper beside some envelopes with stamps featuring coffee drinks on them.
mastodon_id: "113360498256457079"
---
Fresh from [my text editor](https://apps.kde.org/kate/) comes a neat little web component that packages the native HTML `<audio>` tag inside a `<figure>` with a song name, title, and a graphic — an album cover perhaps. Here's what it looks like, featuring a very catchy drum and bass tune, "Ballin'," by Vibe Chemistry:

{% audio "Ballin’", "Vibe Chemistry", "/audio/ballin.mp3", "/audio/covers/ballin.webp" %}

It's pretty basic for now; it doesn't even truncate an over-long title, but it'll do the job for the moment. My hope is to use this to play short song snippets so that I can talk about and review them. I think this falls pretty squarely under "fair use" in the United States, and there's no admin for litigious record companies to complain to but myself anyway; coincidentally, direct all copyright complaints to [me](/me/) to have any decent snippets of your IP replaced with samples of significantly lower quality.