Every Design in the Catalog Renders an Audio Player
If you have audio on your account, it reaches your website. That is true on every design in the catalog, which matters more for some actors than others: for a voice actor the audio is not a supporting detail, it is the product.
Where it appears
Designs handle media in one of two ways, and both now include audio.
Most carry a media section of their own, built into the design, that loops over what you have and lays it out in that design's grid. Your tracks sit there alongside your photographs and video, styled the way the rest of that design is styled, using the same player throughout.
The rest use the platform's own gallery, which renders photographs, video and audio together in one component. Where that gallery sits is deliberately unclever: immediately before the design's own footer, which is reliably the end of the page. Trying to be smarter about placement is how a gallery ends up inside a slider panel or behind a menu overlay, and a gallery inside a slider panel is worse than no gallery at all.
The player itself
One player is used everywhere, so the controls behave the same whichever design you pick, and it starts up based on whether its own mount point is on the page. That sounds obvious and it is the point: the player's presence is what decides whether the player runs, rather than anything about the gallery or lightbox around it.
It handles a full playlist, so an actor with a commercial reel, a narration sample and an animation demo gets three labeled tracks rather than three separate widgets.
One thing worth knowing about reels
A track can be flagged as a reel rather than a library track. A reel is withheld from the general media gallery, on the assumption that it belongs somewhere more prominent, and many designs give it exactly that: a dedicated position near the top of the page.
Not every design in the catalog has that dedicated position. If you are on one that does not, and your only track is flagged as a reel, mark it as a library track instead and it will appear in the gallery with everything else. It is a one-click change under Audio.
Getting the audio in
Tracks can be uploaded directly, brought in from SoundCloud, or pulled from a Dropbox folder. Once they are in, reels and playlists covers grouping them, and audio playlists for voice actors covers how to organize them by category.
On why audio belongs on the site at all, see integrating audio and video and ten reasons voice over actors need a website. Browse the design catalog or create a free actor website.
