Now that you know how to create basic Electron applications, let's craft something interesting that involves multimedia components and your hardware.

In this chapter, we are going to build a simple music player application with playback controls, sound options, metadata, and album art rendering.

You are going to learn how to use web technologies to build a cross-platform music player for desktop applications and create a good foundation project that you can make further enhancements to. By the end of this chapter, we will have a minimal music player application with cover album art and song metadata support.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Creating a project scaffold
• Exploring the music player component
• Exploring the playback control buttons
• Implementing a song progress bar
• Displaying music metadata
• Improving the user interface
• Reviewing the final structure

Let's start by configuring a new project scaffold for our music application.