Music on the canvas

A track node puts a song on the canvas, where you can click it to listen. You can also give a node you own an entry song: music that plays when someone enters it. Both use the Jukebox player and its now-playing controls.

These music actions are available when you are signed in and music is enabled for your account.

Place a track on the canvas#

1. Open Library in the Jukebox.
2. Choose a track you hold: one you made, collaborate on, bought or saved.
3. Drag its row onto a canvas you can edit.

The track appears at the drop position. Its cover follows the Square, CD or Vinyl style chosen in the track's settings. A disc spins while its song plays; a square shows a playback underline. Reduced-motion settings stop the disc animation.

Placing a track does not start playback. Click it to play, click again to pause, and click a paused current track to resume. The same song appears in the Jukebox and compact Now playing controls.

A track node can have child nodes, including Add Child and Collapse Children actions. Clicking the track itself plays it rather than entering an inside canvas.

Use a track's menu#

Right-click a track node to see its music actions. The actions depend on whether you hold the track and whether you can change the current node's music.

The playback service still checks your access. Save a free track before assigning it as node music: the assignment needs a track held in your library. A track offered for sale plays its preview until you have a copy.

Give your node an entry song#

Enter the node you own first. In the Jukebox, open Settings on the held track you want to use. Find This node's music, then choose Play when someone enters my node. Set. confirms the change.

If you are outside a node, this section is called My node's music and targets your home node. If you are inside someone else's node, it says You can only set music on your own nodes. The current visit takes priority over your home node; leaving a node before assigning the song changes the target.

Loop chooses whether the entry song repeats. You can turn it on before assigning the song or change it after assignment. When the selected song is already assigned, Stop playing it clears that node's song and shows Cleared.

You can also use Set as my node's music from a track node's menu. It targets the node you are inside, or your home node when you are outside. That action initially sets the song without looping; use the track's settings to change Loop.

For a released track with listener audio ready, visitors hear the whole song through the node without personally saving or buying it. A private track's listener audio is unavailable to people who do not hold it. Release the song and finish preparing its audio if you want those visitors to hear it.

What happens when you visit#

Entering a node can start its song after you have interacted with the page. A restored visit after a reload, or a node already open when the page loads, does not count as a new entrance and does not automatically start its song.

Your own listening choice takes priority. If you have already chosen music, the compact player offers Play this node's music. Choose that offer to switch to the node's song. Leaving a node stops a song that the node started automatically and removes an unused offer.

The compact player has a node-music switch:

• Node music is on. Turn off stops automatic entry music.
• Node music is off. Turn on allows it again for later visits.

That preference is remembered in this browser. Turning it off leaves music you chose yourself playing. The ordinary Loop this track control changes your current playback loop; the owner's Loop setting supplies the initial value for visitors.

If the song does not play#

If the browser has blocked sound, choose Tap to play in the compact player. A missing listener render shows Audio is not available yet. The creator needs to finish publishing it. The creator can follow Publishing music to prepare it again.

Unavailable — removed after a copyright notice means the track cannot be played through its card, a station or an entry song. See Copyright notices. For a broader sound problem, use Troubleshooting.