# Player & queue
Source: https://docs.aden.space/docs/help/make-music/player-queue

The persistent music bar at the bottom of the app. Transport controls, progress, volume, a dockable/floating mode, and a queue panel listing everything lined up. Each queue row and the track currently playing carry a single "…" actions menu (go to track, comment at the current playhead, jump to any version-card tab, copy link, share, download, all versions, remove from queue) so track actions are reachable without leaving the page you're on. In the bar that menu also holds the player's own options under an "Audio player" heading (progress bar style, speed, shuffle, clear queue, float/dock, minimize), so there is only ever one "…" button.
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## What it is [#what-it-is]

Once you press play anywhere in Aden, a **player bar** sticks to the bottom of
the screen and follows you around the app. It shows the artwork, title and
artists of what's playing, transport controls (previous / play-pause / next),
the progress bar, volume, and a **queue** button with a badge counting the
tracks lined up.

Where you are in the track and how long it runs sit together to the right of
the progress bar, and fade in when you hover the bar. **Previous** and **next**
sit a size under play, appear only when there is a track that way and slide in
when one arrives, so a single track is never framed by two arrows that do
nothing. The queue button fades in with the bar too, and stays up while the
queue panel is open.

**Volume** is next to the queue button and stays there at every width: click it
to mute and click again to come back to the level you were at, or hover it for
the slider. A muted player shows the button filled, so silence never reads as a
track that hasn't started.

## Progress bar and speed [#progress-bar-and-speed]

**Progress bar** in the player's **"…"** menu chooses between the plain slider
and the playing track's waveform. The same waveform its track page shows: drag
or click it to seek, exactly like the slider. It's **Bar** by default because
the waveform is an extra load per track, the choice is remembered on this
device, and tracks whose waveform hasn't been generated keep the slider.

**Speed** plays between 0.5x and 2x without changing the pitch.

The bar can be **docked** (default) or **floating**: a small draggable,
resizable card you can park anywhere on screen, and it can be **minimized** out
of the way and restored later.

## The queue [#the-queue]

Click the queue button to slide open the queue panel. Each row shows the
track's cover, title, artists and collaborators, and its duration; the track
playing right now is highlighted. From a row you can:

* **Play it**: click the cover, the title, or the row's play button to jump
  straight to that track.
* **Remove it**: the ✕ on hover takes it out of the queue.
* **Everything else**: the **"…"** menu next to the ✕.

**Clear** at the top of the panel empties the queue and stops playback.

### Files in the queue [#files-in-the-queue]

Loose files play here too. Press play on an audio file in a transfer (or on a
public transfer link) and it joins the queue like a track, so it keeps playing
while you move around and the bar pauses, scrubs and skips it. A file has no
track page, so its row links back to the transfer it came from and skips the
track-only actions (comments, versions, share).

## Track actions from the player [#track-actions-from-the-player]

The **"…"** menu appears on every queue row on hover (or keyboard focus) and,
for whatever is playing right now, in the bar itself, so you can comment on,
share or download the track you're listening to without navigating to its page
first.

The menu offers:

* **Go to track**: opens the track's page.
* **Comment at 1:23**: jumps to the track's version card with the comment box
  already open and the timestamp of wherever the playhead is filled in, ready to
  type. For a track that isn't the one currently playing it reads **Add a
  comment** and leaves the timestamp empty.
* **Open version**: a submenu with every tab of the version card: Description,
  Tasks, Comments, Activity, Lyrics, Shares, and Files & extra. Picking one opens
  the versions page with that card already on that tab.
* **Copy link**: copies the track's link to your clipboard.
* **Share track**: opens the usual share dialog (available when the track
  belongs to a team with a public profile).
* **Download**: downloads the exact version that's queued (the one you're
  hearing), not some other version of the track.
* **All versions & downloads**: opens the track's versions page.
* **Remove from queue**: queue rows only.

In the player bar the same menu splits in two: **This track** holds everything
above, and **Audio player** holds **Progress bar**, **Speed**, **Shuffle
queue**, **Clear queue**, **Float player** / **Dock player** and **Minimize**.
One "…" button instead of two identical ones.

When you're listening from a **public share link** rather than inside the app,
the menu only shows the actions that work without an account: **Copy link** and
**Download** (when the share allows downloads).