The player plays a saved meditation and shows its full script while it plays. Speech audio is generated the first time each passage is needed, so playback can start before the whole meditation has audio.
Open a meditation
- From chat: tap a saved meditation card. An unsaved draft shows Save & Play instead. It saves the draft and opens Playback Settings before the first play.
- From My Library: tap a meditation card.
A saved meditation opens with its current voice, music and ending sound. To change them first, open the card's actions menu and choose Voice and Music.
Controls
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Play and pause | Starts and stops playback. Play and pause also work from the lock screen and media keys on most devices. |
| Timeline | Shows the elapsed time and the total length. Drag or tap it to jump to another point. |
| Spaciousness slider | Makes pauses shorter or longer while you listen. See Spaciousness. |
| Playback Settings | The button beside Play. Changes voice, background music, music level and ending sound. |
| More | Opens the More menu, described below. |
While a meditation plays, Open Meadow keeps the screen on, in browsers that support it.
Keyboard control of the timeline
The timeline also works with the keyboard. When it has focus, these keys move the playback position:
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| Right Arrow or Up Arrow | Moves forward by 1% of the meditation. |
| Left Arrow or Down Arrow | Moves back by 1% of the meditation. |
| Shift with an arrow key | Moves by 10% of the meditation instead. |
| Home | Jumps to the start. |
| End | Jumps to the end. |
Script view
The player shows the whole script, with section headings, spoken passages and pauses. The current passage is highlighted as the meditation plays.
- Tap a passage or pause to jump to it.
- If you tap a passage that has no audio yet, Open Meadow generates speech from that point.
On a phone held upright, the script fills the screen and the controls sit at the bottom. On wider screens, including a phone turned sideways, the script appears beside the cover and controls.
How speech is generated
Open Meadow generates speech audio when you open a meditation in the player, passage by passage. Playback starts as soon as the first passage is ready. The remaining passages are generated in order while you listen.
Each voice has its own audio. When you choose a new voice in the player's Playback Settings, Open Meadow starts generating its audio right away, from the current passage. A voice listed under Ready to play already has audio for this meditation and plays without generating new audio. Generating speech uses credits. Playing audio that already exists never does.
More menu
| Item | What it does |
|---|---|
| Download | Creates an MP3 of the meditation. See Download a meditation. |
| Edit Script | Opens the script editor. Saving generates new audio only for the passages you changed. |
| Rename | Changes the meditation title. |
| Log Session | Adds a session to your meditation history. Remove Session undoes it. The player also adds one after 3 minutes or half the meditation. |
| Focus | Switches to Focus mode, a minimal full-screen view, described below. |
| Other Settings | Opens sharing, cover image options, Copy Script Text and Resynthesize. |
Edit Script and Other Settings are only available for your own meditations. On a shared meditation page, the player only offers playback.
Other Settings
- Sharing: shares the meditation with a link. See Share a meditation.
- Upload Cover Image, Regenerate Cover Image and High Quality Cover Image: change the cover. See Cover images.
- Copy Script Text: copies the script to the clipboard.
- Resynthesize: replaces all speech audio for the current voice. See Fix audio problems.
Focus mode
Focus mode hides the player and shows only the current passage, in large text on a plain background. Choosing Focus also starts playback. A tap, a click or Escape returns to the player.