Playing YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music and Twitch Inline

A YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music or Twitch link can render as a player in your page instead of a link that leaves it. Visitors watch or listen without going anywhere.

1. 1Add the link as usual
2. 2Open its More actions menu in Dashboard → Links and choose Play it inline, or switch on Play it inline in the link's editor. Both are offered only on a link that can play
3. 3The row shows a Plays inline badge

Choose Show as a normal link in the same menu, or switch Play it inline off, to turn it back into an ordinary link.

• YouTube videos, Shorts and playlists, including youtu.be, m.youtube.com and music.youtube.com links
• YouTube channels: the player opens on your newest upload. For a youtube.com/@name link, turning the player on saves the channel's permanent address (youtube.com/channel/…), which keeps working if you change your handle
• Spotify tracks, albums, playlists, artists, shows and episodes
• Apple Music songs, albums and playlists, from a music.apple.com link. Apple Music cannot embed an artist page
• Twitch clips, past broadcasts and channels. A channel shows your stream while you are live and Twitch's offline screen when you are not. Like every player here, it waits for a visitor to press play

Turning embedding on is your explicit choice, not something a recognized URL does by itself: someone linking their channel usually wants a link to their channel. If a URL cannot be parsed with confidence, the link simply stays a link.

The player is there as soon as your page opens: a visitor's browser contacts Google, Spotify, Apple or Twitch while the page renders, not when they press play. Players further down the page wait until someone scrolls near them.

A Spotify song plays in noiz's own player, in your card's look, with its cover, title and artist. Visitors who are signed in to Spotify in their browser hear the whole song, and everyone else hears Spotify's short preview. On a page, a Spotify playlist or album plays in that player too, with its songs listed under it: press one to play it, and the next starts when a song ends. Artist pages and podcasts, and playlists and albums shown as links, show in Spotify's own player, in its dark mode.

This changed on August 27, 2026. Players used to wait for a press, which held the request back but meant a play button that loaded a second play button. Our privacy policy sets out what a visitor's browser now sends and to whom.

An embedded link records no clicks, because nobody leaves your page to use it. Instead, the first time a visitor presses the player counts as a play, and Analytics shows plays in their own list, next to your links' clicks. Your page learns only that the player was pressed, not what was watched or for how long. Some phones do not report a tap inside a player, so plays can read lower than the real number, never higher. Your page views still count as normal.