Now that you know how to create basic Electron applications, let's craft something interesting that involves multimedia components and your hardware.
In this chapter, we are going to build a simple music player application with playback controls, sound options, metadata, and album art rendering.
You are going to learn how to use web technologies to build a cross-platform music player for desktop applications and create a good foundation project that you can make further enhancements to. By the end of this chapter, we will have a minimal music player application with cover album art and song metadata support.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Creating a project scaffold
- Exploring the music player component
- Exploring the playback control buttons
- Implementing a song progress bar
- Displaying music metadata
- Improving the user interface...
