# kolber/audiojs

A cross-browser javascript wrapper for the html5 audio tag

Repository: https://github.com/kolber/audiojs
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/audiojs
Homepage: http://kolber.github.io/audiojs
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2018-09-25T12:29:23+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5754, "days_push": 2899, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2083, forks 435 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:11.783646+00:00)

## What it is
audio.js is a drop-in JavaScript library that makes the HTML5 <audio> tag work across all browsers, using native audio where available and an invisible Flash player as a fallback. It also provides a consistent, CSS-styleable player UI across browsers.

## Use cases
- play mp3 audio in the browser with a consistent player UI
- make the html5 audio tag work in legacy browsers like IE6-8
- add a styled audio player to a webpage with minimal setup
- build a custom playlist player on top of the audio tag
- embed audio on a site without writing cross-browser audio code

## When to choose
- you must support very old browsers (IE6-8, old Firefox/Opera) that need a Flash fallback for mp3 playback
- you want a quick drop-in audio player with a styleable default UI

## When to avoid
- you only need to support modern browsers, which all support native HTML5 audio
- you need ogg or other non-mp3 format support
- you want a maintained library - the last release was in 2018 and Flash is deprecated

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: audio-processing, ui-components
- domain: web-development, frontend, media
- platform: browser
- tags: html5-audio, audio-player, flash-fallback, mp3, legacy-browser-support, audio, javascript

## Member repositories
- kolber/audiojs (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:11.783646+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:55:53.578699+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kolber/audiojs (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:11.783646+00:00, sha 5d3d2b5f8394)
  - homepage: http://kolber.github.io/audiojs (fetched 2026-08-29T10:36:11.754976+00:00, sha db0e43eeb4c0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.