Very cool! Can you dedicate an episode to playing public audiofiles (uploaded through Active Storage) directly from the S3 bucket (and not through the application)?

You can use @podcast.audio.service_url  instead of url_for(@podcast.audio) which will be a direct link to the S3 endpoint.  However, if you're using a different storage mechanism like disk in your development environment, it wouldn't work. You may need to have minio or something similar within your development environment.

Thank you for that: I didn't know that it didn't work locally! I got it to work by checking the environment; perfect!

Awesome  ☒ ! Glad to hear that!

can i use this technique to build something similar to : beats sellers platform

 ☒ I would say that it’s possible. SoundWave gives enough flexibility with its APIs but is somewhat limited on the customization. For a true customization, Howler is pretty powerful. However, you would basically be building your own custom UI for it.

https://howlerjs.com/

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Great tutorial, thanks! Can you extend this to cover playlist, please?

How can I secure active storage file in the browser HTML mark-up?

Below generates when I inspect the browser. And, the file downloads right away when you click on the link in the HTML mark-up.
Meaning anyone can download uploaded files although it can not be downloaded directly from the front end. 

<a href="/rails/active_storage/blobs/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBWTA9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--7d855c7bea95a43128ac7549fee0f2e6d9e172c4/testing-security.mp3" class="">
                            <span id="play" style="">
                                <i class="fa fa-play" aria-hidden="true"></i>
                                Play
                            </span>

</a>

 ☒ Check out the video on streaming videos where it shows how to use the controller to send the Active Storage url instead of having it embed within the view. This may help protect the link as it is then able to be authenticated and authorized via the controller. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/streaming-videos-with-active-storage

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Thanks, Kobaltz. I had a look at the streaming videos episode.  It seems the issue can be fixed with that. Let me have a go.