Media · Audio macro
Recordings that get listened to, right where they are explained
With the Audio macro a recording stops being a file people mean to listen to later and never do. The player sits in the document, so an interview, a stand-up recording or a pronunciation guide is one click away from the text that explains it - and your readers hear the evidence while they read the summary.
Your readers hear the evidence while they read the summary
User research, a customer call, a decision recorded in a meeting: the value is in
hearing it while reading what someone wrote about it. With the player on the page
your readers get both at once, rather than a summary here and a downloads folder
with twelve files called recording.mp3 somewhere else.
Nobody converts a file to publish it
MP3, WAV, FLAC, AAC, M4A, OGG, Opus and WebM all play as they are, so the recording that came off the phone, the hardware recorder or the conferencing tool goes straight on the page. You skip the conversion step entirely, and so does everyone who publishes after you.
The recording carries the weight you intend
Choose the compact player when the audio is a footnote in a longer document, or the SoundCloud-style waveform skin when the recording is the point of the page. Your embed looks as important as it is, not as important as a default decided.
You never host a second copy of a heavy file
Audio is heavy, and Confluence attachments are not always the right home for it. Point the macro at the file where it already sits - an attachment, a URL, Google Drive, or a credentialed S3, SFTP or database connection an admin set up once - and your page plays it without you storing, syncing or paying for a duplicate.
What the built-in options leave you doing
There is no dedicated audio app for Confluence to compare this with - the nearest thing we found records voice notes into the page, which is a different job. That leaves you with the built-in options: attach the file and let people download it, or upload the recording somewhere else and link out. Neither plays a two-hour interview from an S3 bucket on the page where the findings are written, which is exactly what you get here.
Audio is one of 31 macros in Macro Pack
One app to install, one licence to renew, one place your team learns - and 30 more formats it already reads, from spreadsheets and diagrams to API specs and documents.
See every macro in the pack