How to import and play all audio files from a directory in React?

Question

I am trying to play each audio file located inside a directory using React. I can play one file as follows but I do not want to import each file since there 70 files in the folder:

import {useEffect} from 'react';
import audio1 from '../../Storage/Audio/1.wav';

const Mp3player = () =>  {
  const audioEl = new Audio(audio1);

  const handlePlay = () =>{
    audioEl.play();
  }
 
  useEffect(() => {
    audioEl.load();
  }, []);

    return (
      <div>
        <h1>Player </h1>
        <button onClick={handlePlay}> Play </button>
      </div>
    );
  }
export default Mp3player;

I tried this:

import {useEffect} from 'react';

const r = require.context('../../Storage/Audio', false, /\.(wav)$/);

let audios  = [];
r.keys().forEach((item) => {audios.push('file:../../Storage/Audio/' + String(item).substring(2))});
console.log(audios)

const Mp3player = () =>  {
  const audioEl = new Audio(audios[0]);
  console.log(audios[0]);

  const handlePlay = () =>{
    audioEl.play();
    console.log("playing");

  }
    useEffect(() => {
    audioEl.load();
  }, []);

    return (
      <div>
        <h1>Player </h1>
        <button onClick={handlePlay}> Play </button>
      </div>
    );
  }
export default Mp3player;

But no success playing the file.

How can I import and play all the audio files and get them inside an array or object?

EDIT: My .wav files are named 1.wav to 70.wav, if that helps.

Thank you.

Answer 1

So this is the way I managed to solve it:

1. I have my videos in the public folder. For the purpose of this example, they are named: video1.mp4 and video2.mp4.

2. I used react-player library.

This is the resulting code:

import ReactPlayer from "react-player";

function App() {
  const videoNames = [];

  for (let i = 1; i < 3; i++) {
    videoNames.push(`video${i}.mp4`);
  }

  const Videos = () => {
    return (
      <div>
        {videoNames.map((videoName) => {
          return (
            <div>
              <h1>{videoName}</h1>
              <ReactPlayer url={videoName} controls={true} />;
            </div>
          );
        })}
      </div>
    );
  };

  return <Videos />;
}

export default App;

I hope it helps.