Audio Jingle Template

Use this template when the artifact is a small, focused player UI around a single piece of audio — a song drop, a podcast episode, a brand jingle demo, an artist spotlight.

Use When

• The user wants to show off one track / episode / jingle (not a full library).
• The output is a sharable mini-player page or an in-line embed mockup (artist landing, EPK, "listen now" card).
• The desired look is calm, premium, Apple-Music-leaning glassmorphism over an ambient album-art wash.
• The user is pitching a music release, a podcast hook, or a sonic-branding deliverable.

Avoid When

• The content is a long playlist, browsable library, or full music-app product (this template's queue strip is decorative, not browsable).
• The audio needs lyrics scrolling, waveform editing, or audiogram-style captioning.
• The user actually wants a video player, social card, or marketing landing.
• The release is loud / cyberpunk / underground — the template's mood is restrained and premium; replace, don't fight it.

Required Reading

Read this SKILL.md first. Do not read music-player.html by default.

Read music-player.html only when you need concrete layout rhythm of the player card, scrubber/control geometry, or the active-track equalizer animation. Extract patterns; do not copy DOM, CSS classes, color tokens, or the placeholder track metadata wholesale.

Design Strategy

Decide the surface role first:

• single-track release card (artist + title + art + play)
• podcast episode hero (episode title + show + duration)
• jingle showcase (brand mark + track + small "use cases" caption)
• artist spotlight (avatar + bio sliver + featured track)

Then pin the dominant color to the album/episode artwork — let the ambient wash do the color-bearing.

Layout Bias

Prefer:

• one square hero artwork, perceptibly large
• the player card centered with breathing room, not stretched edge-to-edge
• ambient blurred backdrop sampled from the artwork (not arbitrary gradient)
• monospaced or tabular numerals for timecodes
• a short queue strip (≤ 6 items) only if it adds context, otherwise omit

Avoid:

• decorative "vinyl spin" or 3D speaker stickers (slop)
• neon EQ bars or rave gradients
• crowding the player card with social / download / share / tip / lyrics all at once
• text overlayed directly on artwork — keep type on the glass card

Platform / Size

This is a web-page mockup, not a fixed-image export. Default to a mobile-first centered column (~ 390–420px content width) on a full-bleed ambient backdrop. If the user asks for an embeddable card, crop to that aspect; if they ask for a poster, switch to a social-card template instead.