Delightful and reliable audio playlists.
As of April 2026, Cue by AudioTheme.com is a WordPress mp3 plugin with 6.0K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 36 reviews. It has been downloaded 163K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.6+ and PHP 7.1+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 45% this week. Top alternative: MP3 Audio Player – Music Player….
Cue makes it easy to create and manage beautiful, fully responsive audio playlists. Primarily built with music in mind, Cue can also be used for podcasts, sermons or to showcase voice over samples.
There’s no need to fiddle with XML, JSON, or FTP. Just upload audio files with the familiar WordPress Media Manager, then insert them into a playlist with the click of a button. Cue fetches metadata from uploaded files to automatically complete the title, artist, and length for each track.
It works on desktop, tablets, and other mobile devices.
View a working demo at https://audiotheme.com/view/cue/.
I’ve been using Cue for 3 years now. It’s a solid plug-in backed by solid developers. Makes for easy playlist management without getting in the way. It’s worth getting the paid version to support their work in my opinion. It seems they follow coding standards a bit more closely than a lot of other plug-ins I’ve used or tested.
Thank you, AudioTheme team. Please keep up the excellent quality work.
(Side note: I liked Cue so much I ended up checking out their themes as well. Not only do they all have unique features, they’re also lightweight on both the front end AND back end. Under 1 MB page size and under 2 seconds load time, when measured with browser dev tools.)
This is the best plugin for mp3 playlists, good job guys and thank you.
This plugin is the best audio playlist manager that I have come across or used, definitely. It makes creating and displaying MP3 playlists easy, smooth and beautiful. However, it has not been updated in quite sometime, and although it works on WP 5.2, it causes a weird glitch. When trying to edit the HTML of a page that has Cue’s shortcodes on it, the WYSSIWIG displays an error and won’t let me edit anything. I have to disable the plugin, make the changes, then reactivate the plugin.
Aside from that glitch, it’s a great plugin. But I fear after a year+ of no updates this plugin is being abandoned, and eventually I’ll have to move to something else.
It ruined up the security check for the navigators. Can’t work properly with the SSL.
All I want was to add a single audio file or a playlist and attached the cover art, I found the features in the plugin. I love it, I will be upgrading to the pro version soon.
| WordPress | 5.6+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 7.1+ required |
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