Title: playlists – Make WordPress Core

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#  Tag Archives: playlists

 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wonderboymusic/) [Scott Taylor](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wonderboymusic/)
9:04 pm _on_ February 20, 2014     
Tags: [Audio ( 3 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/audio/),
[media ( 93 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/media/), playlists, [video ( 6 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/video/)

# 󠀁[Audio / Video 2.0 Update – Playlists](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2014/02/20/audio-video-2-0-update-playlists/)󠁿

Previously: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2014/01/29/audiovideo-2-0-update/

It has been a slow and steady burn of commits related to media and necessary for
playlists:
 [[27059]](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/27059), [[27063]](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/27063),
[[27907]](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/27907), [[27100]](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/27100),
[[27127]](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/27127), [[27209]](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/27209),
[[27212]](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/27212), [[27213]](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/27213),
[[27214]](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/27214), [[27215]](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/27215)

A few items for conversation….

### Thumbnails for Audio and Video

We have been parsing the ID3 tags in audio and video files on upload since 3.6. 
ID3 tags, in many cases, contain the binary bits for an image related to the item(
album cover, still, etc). On upload, if your theme and the relevant pseudo post 
type for `attachment:audio` or `attachment:video` registered support for thumbnails
AND your current theme supported it, we would upload the image bits and attach to
the media item as its featured imageFeatured image A featured image is the main 
image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared
on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or
in a summary list of posts..

So basically it was a hidden feature, because it required you to jump through hoops
to turn it on.

    ```
    add_post_type_support( 'attachment:audio', 'thumbnail' );
    add_post_type_support( 'attachment:video', 'thumbnail' );
    add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails', array( 'post', 'attachment:audio', 'attachment:video' ) );
    ```

On top of that, if you switch themes, and the theme doesn’t support thumbnails for
audio or video, the images will no longer appear alongside the media on the Edit
Media page. Weird.

Playlists are best enjoyed with images, videos are best enjoyed with poster images.
Soundcloud is doing some awesome things with images in their embeds – see a few 
on the homepage here: http://highforthis.com. Moral of the story: I think this support
should be on by default. Alternately, we could add that code to every default theme’s`
functions.php`, but then what if you switch themes…

### Playlist UIUI User interface

As I mentioned previously, the UI for playlists needs to be:
 1) Adaptable 2) ExtensibleExtensible
This is the ability to add additional functionality to the code. Plugins extend 
the WordPress core software. 3) Generic

Translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display
formatting to support another language. Also see [localization](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/playlists/?output_format=md#l10n),
[internationalization](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/playlists/?output_format=md#i18n).:
it needs to show up in a theme without much drama, inherit the style of the theme,
respond the theme’s `$content_width`, all while allowing you to completely override
this behavior. So, what I have is an ultra generic design controlled by settings
in the media modal:

[⌊Playlist Settings⌉⌊Playlist Settings⌉[
 I have tested this in the last 5 default
themes:

#### Twenty Fourteen

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#### Twenty Thirteen

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#### Twenty Twelve

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#### Twenty Eleven

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#### Twenty Ten

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 I would like
to drop this code in soon, but I wanted to give an opportunity for feedback. All
of this can easily be iterated upon once it goes in.

### Documentation of 3.5 Media Code

This is ongoing – there has been a lot of code churn in the Backbone code, by myself
and others, I’ll be picking this back up once that settles down.

[#audio](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/audio/), [#media](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/media/),
[#playlists](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/playlists/), [#video](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/video/)