83
MP3 Audio Player – Music Player, Podcast Player & Radio by Sonaar
Stunning audio aesthetics with a single player bottleneck.
HealthyGrowing
83/100
The beautiful design and easy setup drive satisfaction despite a critical bug that limits multiple players.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.8★
299 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+9%
Growing
168 → 184 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing · +9% in the last year
168/day a year ago→184/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayMP3 Audio Player by Sonaar is well-regarded as a feature-rich, visually appealing, and easy-to-use audio player plugin, though at least one user reports a critical shortcode conflict that makes running multiple players simultaneously impossible.
What people like
- +Visually appealing design, considered better-looking than competing plugins×2
- +Easy to set up and use×4
- +Bulk upload feature saves significant time
- +Generous free feature set with ongoing additions×3
- +No compatibility issues reported
- +Good support
Common complaints
- −Creating a new shortcode overrides the existing one, making it impossible to run multiple independent players on the same site
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.62★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 21%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 299 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-06-03★★★★★Uselesspluginoise
- 2026-05-07★★★★★Awesome plugin!kalangoduo1-shot
- 2026-03-22★★★★★Great plugin, feature-richpocopresto
- 2026-01-30★★★★★Great plugin!yameth
- 2026-01-15★★★★★Sonaar is solid.blackice777
- 2026-01-06★★★★★Great product – Awesome supportpeterehrling1-shot
- 2026-01-01★★★★★This plugin is greatelerale
- 2025-12-23★★★★★Like itmostlyjan
- 2025-12-06★★★★★Very good plugin!martialkoffi
- 2025-11-15★★★★★Worked well for our needsArtisticWP
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to MP3 Audio Player
Top Media plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
178
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
200
Prior 7-day baseline
165
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
720
Mean release-day peak (30d)
188
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-11.0%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
8%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.71
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
91%
5★ share in analyzed sample
21%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-39%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.70 → 4.62★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered