Playing a embedded audio file

[ChrisOboe]

Describe the problem you have/What new integration you would like

Currently media player is only able to play media from an url. I'd like to play media from an embedded file (e.g. in a byte array).

Please describe your use case for this integration and alternatives you've tried:

I've built a door bell based on esphome with i2s_audio and media player and and amplifier. It works fine as long as the device has network connection. But i need a fallback, to play a sound even if there is no network connection.

As a workarround i will try to use speaker play to play raw audio. But in that case i assume i will loose the codec support of media player. So the audio will propably be very limited by the space available.

Additional context

[nagyrobi]

A config similar to img would be useful, referencing a file to be embedded in the binary.

[docteurzoidberg]

definetly need embedding sounds for my projects. the actual uses of dfplayer seems obsolete for low bitrate sounds / just a fancy bip or startup sound. It's thing i've done on old ATTINY85 so it could work on a esp ^^
I have a quack.h sound i would love to embed in my esphome projects with buzzers/speakers