Audio Player
Playback Controls
Basic Controls: Play, pause, previous, next, and volume slider.
Loop Modes:
- Track Loop: Repeat the current track
- Queue Loop: Repeat the entire queue
- None: Play through queue once
Shuffle: Randomize the playback order of your queue.
Queue Behavior
Starting playback from the project table snapshots its current order and queues only projects with a playable bounce. Projects that only have a MAKID Session Preview are not added to bounce traversal.
Each project entry resolves its most recently modified supported bounce when it starts playing. A newer bounce exported after the queue was created is therefore picked up automatically. Selecting a specific bounce instead pins that queue entry to the selected file.
MAKID Session Previews play only when explicitly selected. Playing a bounce-less project creates a focused preview queue rather than adding the preview to next, previous, shuffle, or queue-loop traversal.
Supported Audio Formats
MAKID detects and plays only the following audio file types:
.mp3,.mpeg,.opus,.ogg,.oga,.wav.aac,.caf,.m4a,.m4b,.mp4.weba,.webm,.dolby,.flac
MAKID indexes these formats when they are at least two seconds long. If runtime
metadata is unavailable, the file must be at least 50 KB. Automatic MAKID Cloud
project sync selects only .mp3 and .wav bounces from this local list.
Choosing a Project’s Audio File
When you play a project from the table, MAKID uses the most recently modified supported audio file as its primary bounce. To play a different file, open Project Details and select it from the Bounce Table.
If you directly play a project with no playable bounce, MAKID uses a MAKID Session Preview of the primary Ableton session when one is available.
Advanced Audio Features
Waveform Visualization: See the audio waveform with clickable timeline.
MAKID Session Preview Activity Overview: Approximate Ableton session playback shows clip activity instead of a generated waveform. Passed activity and the playhead show progress. Click the overview to seek without changing the current Play/Pause state.
Ableton-style Arrangement Transport: In the session workspace, click
non-interactive timeline space to move the playhead. Press Space to start an
idle arrangement or pause and resume active playback. Timeline clicks preserve
the current transport state, while clip, track, comment, and locator controls
retain their selection and navigation behavior.
Live Visualizer: Expand the waveform button in the desktop player to choose Spectrum, Bars, Mirror, Wave, Wormhole, or Topography. Spectrum plots the currently playing bounce from 20 Hz to 20 kHz against a decibel scale using live frequency data. Tune smoothing in Spectrum mode or response, motion, detail, and flow in the other modes. Visualizer colors follow the active MAKID theme, while Wormhole and Topography combine project tempo with playback loudness.
Expanded Player: Choose Expand player from the player menu to fill the app window. The lower panel provides timestamped comments, clickable Ableton locators, project notes, bounces, sessions, and shares while keeping track details and playback controls available.
Locators: If your Ableton project has locators, they appear as clickable markers on the waveform.
Outdated Bounce Detection: Audio files older than the project modification date show a warning indicator.
Media Session Integration: Use your keyboard’s media keys or OS media controls to control playback.