AudioIgniter Music Player

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73 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 41 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).

Directory rank vs rivals

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How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 6 years ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 90% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ Rene Maurer

   4mo ago

   This is by far the best plugin for MP3 players that we’ve ever used. There are plenty of complicated plugins out there (which is totally fine), but this one does an impressive job of displaying and playing MP3 files. Plus, it’s very easy to use.

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2. ★★★★★ billcaninos

   1.5y ago

   Enfin un lecteur utilisable ! Et avec un bouton de volume, et qui affecte le même lecteur pour toute la playlist. Y a aussi Audio Album qui marche bien, mais plus rudimentaire.

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3. ★★★★★ itsriko

   1.7y ago

   It’s easy to manage, does what you hope it’ll do, works well on mobile and desktop. I had an issue that I thought was with the player and the support team quickly replied and it turned out to be unrelated to AudioIgniter.

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4. ★★★★★ voha888

   2.2y ago

   How about speed control?

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5. ★★★★★ ihaihe

   2.2y ago

   I’m disappointed that I cannot utilize it within the context of my custom theme. The theme I designed has no impact when shortcodes are used on the page.

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6. ★★★★★ marciode

   2.3y ago

   The program is fantastic. Technical support even more so. If you are reading this, do not look for another player because there is no better one 🙂

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7. ★★★★★ Hello

   2.5y ago

   Good design.

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8. ★★★★★ explodingthemoments

   2.6y ago

   I’m using the 100% FREE version of the plugin. It does everything I want it to which is to allow me to embed a custom playlist of local MP3 along with basic metadata and album covers. What it doesn’t do is provide attractive, customizable styling – the free version is a little 1990’s looking. And the free version provides no widget but there are shortcodes for embedding playlists into pages. And there’s no built-in analytics for plays/completions/etc. Also, the volume controls have some minor accessibility failures as flagged by Google Lighthouse and Axe DevTools. I would consider upgrading to Pro to gain more styling customization but it’s an annual license as opposed to one-time fee. The only viable competitor in the FREE category is Sonaar which is more modern/polished looking but it has its own issues/challenges without unlocking its Pro version which is slightly more expensive.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.0.4 Fixed minor issues with the admin styles. 2.0.4
2. — Version 2.0.3 Fixed issue where playlist information would be returned by the playlist JSON endpoint for playlists that were not yet published (CVE-2026-8679, props nudien udin). 2.0.3
3. — Version 2.0.2 Added support for custom list playback rates when using the [ai_track] shortcode (AudioIgniter Pro). Fixed missing gettext domain issue. Removed call to load_plugin_textdomain(). 2.0.2
4. — Version 2.0.1 Fixed issue where a PHP notice would get thrown (in WP 6.7) regarding translations loading too early. Fixed issue where the player would break when repeating a single track via the [ai_track] shortcode (pro). Allow short 2.0.1
5. — Version 2.0.0 Added AudioIgniter top level menu. Fixed an issue where downloaded tracks would get the full URL as a filename, when the “Use the track URL as the download URL” was checked. Fixed an issue with the “Remember last positio 2.0.0
6. — Version 1.9.0 Fixed a JavaScript error in the admin when selecting an image without thumbnails. Show the playlist shortcode metabox on the side. Show the playlist shortcode on the admin playlists listing page. Action ‘audioigniter_met 1.9.0

The 1 disclosed vulnerability is patched in the current version (2.1.0). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched High · 7.5 AudioIgniter Music Player <= 2.0.2 - Unauthenticated Insecure Direct Object Reference to 'audioigniter_playlist_id' Parameter ↗
   2026-05-21 CVE-2026-8679 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key Affects <= 2.0.2 Patched in 2.0.3

Translated into 9 languages, 3 at 90% or more

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2020-11-12 9K+ → 10K+ up after 71 days in tier
2. 2020-09-02 8K+ → 9K+ up after 20 days in tier
3. 2020-08-13 5K+ → 8K+ up after 342 days in tier
4. 2019-09-06 4K+ → 5K+ up after 48 days in tier
5. 2019-07-20 3K+ → 4K+ up after 357 days in tier
6. 2018-07-28 2K+ → 3K+ up after 171 days in tier
7. 2018-02-07 300+ → 2K+ up

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AudioIgniter Music Player: 10K+ active installs, 4.6★ (64 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-02. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/audioigniter