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Obeekaybee - the music lover community is rioting for the ability to
post music to blogs! I fell in love the idea myself when I
happened upon Aslan's blog
before I ever even signed up for one of my own. Oh, how the
wheels turned in my head when I happened upon a site with a custom
header, template AND music! It was a challenge never even
presented to me, but one I simply had to undertake. So, to my
delight, adding music is a breeze!
Here's
how you do it. If you are not hosting your own server, then the
easiest way is to find a piece of music you like online. I search CD Baby online
because they have SO many unheard of artists and that is my
passion. However, I am sure there are other sites with more
popular music as well if you look around. However, let's just say
you do use CD Baby... 1. So, you decide you like Chris "Whitey" Anderson: http://cdbaby.com/cd/chrisanderson1 2.
And you are a BIG polka fan (hey, I REALLY do like this song!)
Click on the song to start it playing. My computer default to
using Real Player for music. Once Real Player opens, press the
"Ctrl" key and the letter "I" on your keyboard simultaneously.
This will pull up the "File Name" in mp3 format: http://audio.cdbaby.com/mp3lofi/c/h/chrisanderson1-02.mp3
This is the URL to this particular song. Copy it by highlighting
the address only and right clicking to reveal the copy function.
Left click on "Copy".
**Use .mp3 file extensions only.
3.
Now you are going to want to plug in the code in your template on your
blog site. Just paste the following wherever you want your music
bar to display (DELETE the white quotation mark either before or after you have pasted it in your template, as they are only there so that you can see the code):
<"EMBED SRC"="http://cdbaby.com/mp3lofi/chrisanderson1-02.m3u" HEIGHT="50" WIDTH="180" BGCOLOR="#000000" AUTOSTART="true">
You
will change the http:// address to whatever music you want to enjoy for
the day. Remember, just follow the directions in step 2 to get
the correct address to the particular song and plug it in right there. 4.
You can see that I have added a category to place this under on my own
sidebar. You can do the same with the standard code. You
can change the background color of the audio bar by changing the
BGCOLOR. Mine is currently set to black because that is the color
of my background. You can change the size of the player as well
by changing your HEIGHT and WIDTH ratio. Lastly, you can make it
start automatically when people enter your page (good idea to put it in
a pretty visible place if this is the case so people can turn it off if
they want to - some people just don't appreciate the same music!) or
you can set the AUTOSTART feature to "false" so that your visitors can
start it all by themselves. So,
hopefully you plugged a little polka in your browser for the test
because your victory dance would be so much more fun to polka than
anything else I can think of! Do
post a comment if you add music. I would like to find out what
you groove to too. Hey "to too" sounds kind of like tutu...ha
ha! There's an idea...polka in a tutu! Please forgive me..I was forced to express the horribly elementary aspects of the human thought process...
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