Kentha Non-Stop Music WordPress Theme

A musician's money is not in the streams

Worth starting there because it decides which part of the theme to make use of. Streaming platforms pay figures that only matter at millions of plays. For practically everybody, the income comes from gigs, from direct sales of records and shirts, and from the audience that does both.

And that is where Kentha gets interesting: among its feature list there are two that are exactly those, and they tend to go unnoticed beside the player. The booking form and the unlimited buy links per album.

The continuous player is the shop window. Those two are the till.

What it brings

• A continuous music player, which does not cut out when the page changes.
• A real-time audio spectrum analyser, drawing the sound as it plays.
• An automatic booking form, for engagements.
• Unlimited buy links per album, pointing wherever you want.
• Artists, events and podcasts, with albums linked automatically to each artist.
• Podcasts from Mp3, Soundcloud and Mixcloud.
• Video backgrounds, double-layer content and six album shortcodes.

Unlimited buy links do more than they look like

It is a feature that reads as a technical detail and is a business decision.

Being able to put as many buttons as you like on each album means you decide where you send your listener. You can send them to the streaming platform, which pays you fractions of a penny. Or you can put the link to the shop where the musician keeps most of it first, and the others after.

A listener who reaches your site is already convinced: they do not need seducing, they need not being shown the wrong button. That ordering, which costs nothing, is one of the few decisions on a music website that translates directly into money.

And the booking form is the other half. A venue programmer wanting to book you is not going to hunt for your email on the contact page: if there is a form asking date, capacity and city, they fill it in.

Requirements

It needs WordPress. The spectrum analyser is a browser feature and works on the supported desktop ones, so it is worth not building the design around it.

And the usual point with audio: the media library holds up to a point. With a large catalogue, the files belong on a service built for it.

Alternatives in the catalogue

If you already have a theme you like and the only thing missing is the player, do not change theme: Sonaar is the most widespread continuous player and installs as a plugin over whatever you have.

Among themes, Bepop is the option made with WordPress blocks, with no external builder, and Pulse mixes music and radio. If you lean towards the label or the independent scene, Vice is designed from there.

If your project is not an artist but a platform where other people upload, that is something else entirely: WaveMe. And if what you are building is a festival or a tour, Muzicon brings the lineup, stages and ticketing.

Frequently asked questions

Does the music keep playing while browsing?
Yes, it is a continuous player and that is its whole purpose.

How many buy links per album does it allow?
Unlimited, and the order you put them in decides where your listener ends up.

Does it bring a booking form?
Yes, with automatic booking, which is the feature that pays a working musician back most.

Is it suitable for podcasts?
Yes, it supports Mp3, Soundcloud and Mixcloud.

Does the spectrum analyser work everywhere?
That depends on the browser. Worth not making the design depend on it.

Where do I host the songs?
In the media library at first; with volume, on an audio delivery service.