Welcome to Part 1 of the Ultimate Music Player tutorial series! In this post, we’ll create a super simple HTML5 music player that:

✅ Plays one song
✅ Has Play, Pause, and Stop buttons
✅ Uses clean HTML, CSS, and a bit of JavaScript
✅ Works in any modern browser

🧠 Goal: Build the foundation before adding advanced features (like playlists, shuffle, categories, and visualizers in later posts).

📁 Step 1: Setup Your Project Folder

Create a new folder named:

Inside it, place:

• index.html → (you’ll write the code below in this file)

• music.mp3 → (your chosen MP3 file)

🧱 Step 2: Write the HTML

🧪 Step 3: Test It Out

1. Place your music.mp3 file in the same folder.

2. Open index.html in your browser.

3. Click ▶️ Play, ⏸️ Pause, and ⏹️ Stop.

💡 TIP: If it doesn’t work, open your browser’s dev tools (F12) and check the Console for errors like “file not found.”

📝 What You Learned

• ✅ Using the <audio> tag to embed music

• ✅ How to control audio playback using JavaScript

• ✅ Styling a basic interface with CSS

• ✅ Structuring HTML for a player layout

🧭 What’s Next?

In Part 2, you’ll learn how to build a playlist using a list of songs — each clickable and dynamically loaded into the player.

🔜 Coming Up:

• Multiple songs

• Click-to-play

• Dynamic title updates