Investigate adding embedded player in Slack previews

[mattstratton]

I have NO idea if this is feasible/reasonable...I noticed that Soundcloud Slack previews show an embedded audio player, and thought that might be a neat feature to add to episode pages in the theme:

[mattstratton]

Looking at how soundcloud does it; they seem to work with oembed:

<link rel="canonical" href="https://soundcloud.com/thenewstackmakers/makers-by-jenn-mary-thengvall">
<link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="https://m.soundcloud.com/thenewstackmakers/makers-by-jenn-mary-thengvall">
<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml+oembed" href="https://soundcloud.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fthenewstackmakers%2Fmakers-by-jenn-mary-thengvall&amp;format=xml">
<link rel="alternate" type="text/json+oembed" href="https://soundcloud.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fthenewstackmakers%2Fmakers-by-jenn-mary-thengvall&amp;format=json">

{
version: 1,
type: "rich",
provider_name: "SoundCloud",
provider_url: "https://soundcloud.com",
height: 400,
width: "100%",
title: ""Mary Thengvall - The Value of Developer Relations" by The New Stack Makers",
description: "No matter what you call this role — developer community manager, developer evangelist, developer advocate, developer relations, or, cheekily, developer avocado — it's got two things in common. It's one of the most expensive, travel-heavy roles in a tech org and it's one of the hardest to measure. That combination means metrics often make or break your job. But first, what is this role? Good question to which there are many, many answers. In this episode of The New Stack Makers, Camunda's Director of Developer Relations Mary Thengvall talked about her definition. And she should know, she wrote the book on the business case for developer relations. To her, the DevRel arena is "anyone who is responsible for enabling developer audiences and making them successful.",
thumbnail_url: "https://soundcloud.com/images/fb_placeholder.png",
html: "<iframe width="100%" height="400" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F758362147&show_artwork=true"></iframe>",
author_name: "The New Stack Makers",
author_url: "https://soundcloud.com/thenewstackmakers"
}

(reference: https://soundcloud.com/thenewstackmakers/makers-by-jenn-mary-thengvall)

SoundCloud

"Mary Thengvall - The Value of Developer Relations"

No matter what you call this role — developer community manager, developer evangelist, developer advocate, developer relations, or, cheekily, developer avocado — it's got two things in common. It's on

[mattstratton]

So the thing is, it looks like for this to work, it would be oembed which seems to require a server to do the work. I suppose it might be possible to create some kind of fun serverless function, but this would not be part of the theme; it would be something that would take in the parameters of the episode page and turn it into the right stuff. Intriguing.