With great delight and excitement, I'm gonna share this tutorial with ya'll today. I think it's only fair that I should give credit for WordPress developers who invented this Audio player plugin, currently not available in Blogger. So here we go.
Embedded MP3 Audio Player
This tutorial uses the Audio Player WordPress plugin from 1pixelout (by Martin Laine). Please download the .zip file from that site. You will need to unzip the files and use two of them:
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- player.swf (this is the audio player)
- audio-player.js (this is the JavaScript)
You must have some Web space that you control (that is, server space) to which you will upload these files as well as your audio files.
Sample Podcast:
If you are using Internet Explorer, you will probably need to click the player twice to make it play. (All other Web browsers will let you click once.) If you do not see the MP3 player, then you don't have the Flash player installed. (More than 90 percent of all Internet users do have it.)
Tutorial after the jump.
Tutorial
For this tutorial, let's imagine that your server space is at this URL: www.fakedomain.com/myname/
- Create a new folder on your Web server and name it "audio"
- Upload the two files for the audio player (player.swf and audio-player.js) to the audio folder.
- Upload an MP3 file to the audio folder. For this tutorial, let's assume your file is named music.mp3. (NOTE: The MP3 file must be encoded at 44.1 kHz, or 22.05 kHz; any other sampling rate will result in the "chipmunk effect," which you really would not like.)
- http://www.fakedomain.com/myname/audio/player.swf
- http://www.fakedomain.com/myname/audio/audio-player.js
- http://www.fakedomain.com/myname/audio/music.mp3
<script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.fakedomain.com/myname/audio/audio-player.js"></script>
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.fakedomain.com/myname/audio/player.swf" id="audioplayer1" height="24" width="290">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.fakedomain.com/myname/audio/player.swf">
<param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=audioplayer1&soundFile=http://www.fakedomain.com/myname/audio/music.mp3">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
</object>
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.fakedomain.com/myname/audio/player.swf" id="audioplayer1" height="24" width="290">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.fakedomain.com/myname/audio/player.swf">
<param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=audioplayer1&soundFile=http://www.fakedomain.com/myname/audio/music.mp3">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
</object>
If You Use Blogger
To use this player with a blog hosted at Blogger, take out all the code above the<object> tag and place it in your Blogger template (instead). In the Blogger
template, place it above the </head> tag, as shown:
<script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.fakedomain.com/myname/audio/audio-player.js"></script>
</head>
Then each time you use the player in a blog post, you will paste only the</head>
<object> code into your blog post.
Using More Than One Audio File
You can simply upload additional audio files to the same "audio" folder onyour Web server. Make sure each file has a unique filename.
You do not need to upload the two files for the audio player (player.swf and audio-player.js)
more than once.
Placing More Than One Player on the Same Page
For a second player on a page, use this HTML:<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.fakedomain.com/myname/audio/player.swf" id="audioplayer2" height="24" width="290">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.fakedomain.com/myname/audio/player.swf">
<param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=audioplayer2&soundFile=http://www.fakedomain.com/myname/audio/other.mp3">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
</object>
For a third player on the same page, change "audioplayer2" (BOTH of them!!) to "audioplayer3" in the HTML. For a fourth player, "audioplayer4," etc., etc. <param name="movie" value="http://www.fakedomain.com/myname/audio/player.swf">
<param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=audioplayer2&soundFile=http://www.fakedomain.com/myname/audio/other.mp3">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
</object>