Flash MP3 player for your blog

Friday, 14. December 2007, 19:29:13

The Flash MP3 player I am using here comes from WordPress.
You can download the original version here:
http://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin/
A complete tutorial here:
http://www.macloo.com/examples/audio_player/

But you don't need to read all that stuff. Here is a short guide for MyOpera:
1. You take this file: http://files.myopera.com/LorenzoCelsi/files/music/player.swf
2. Upload the file on your "file" folder (or create a subfolder like "file/music")
3. you add this code block to your post:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://files.myopera.com/[your account]/files/music/player.swf" id="audioplayer1" height="24" width="290">
<param name="movie" value="http://files.myopera.com/[your account]/files/music/player.swf">
<param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=1&loop=no&autostart=yes&soundFile=http://files.myopera.com/[your account]/files/music/[your mp3 file]">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
</object>

Note: change the paths with your account name and your MP3 file name. Changing "autostart=yes" with "no" the player doesn't start upon page loading. You can link to MP3 files that aren't on MyOpera setting the correct URL.

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Comments

great,thanks!

By kripo, # 15. December 2007, 11:26:35

something doesn't work and I don't know why...

By kripo, # 16. December 2007, 16:38:47

Hey Lorenzo,the first step from short opera guide show my such a image...writen with chinese characteritics

By kripo, # 16. December 2007, 18:16:19

Sometimes I am got by surprise by things that are elemntary for me so I take for granted. My bad.

You have to "right-click" on the above link and select "save target as". Doing so you will save the file on your computer. Once you have saved it you can upload the same file over your MyOpera file hosting service.

If you aren't able to do that you can link to my own file, simply copying the link from above. In this case the problem is if one day I will remove the file it will stop working on your blog too.

On a side note, the chinese text problably comes from your browser that doens't execute the SWF (Flash) file and instead shows you the content. It is just a guess since I never saw that behaviour. The links I put at the beginning of the post give you the original site and the whole ZIP package of the wordpress plugin. Among the other files there is the same file you can download from the direct link.

By LorenzoCelsi, # 16. December 2007, 18:43:19

Alexkor writes:

I really like this player, simple and cool !
Here is the link for this player generator.
http://www.blogcastone.net

By anonymous user, # 16. February 2008, 17:09:13

Thank you lorenzo, very usefull,

By daxonmacs, # 12. May 2008, 16:32:44

Lorenzo is there any way to add multiple mp3 files, soundfile=http: .. .mp3 then space? and the next url or do I need to make several entries of the same line each containing the next url?

By daxonmacs, # 24. May 2008, 08:05:20

I don't know, try looking here: http://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin/#examples

By LorenzoCelsi, # 24. May 2008, 08:16:31

Will do thank you for the swift response.

By daxonmacs, # 24. May 2008, 08:28:07

Thanks for this! Works smooothly

By lebas, # 15. June 2008, 08:42:42

Since we can't change the html inserting the line to invoke the flashplayer, it will only work for one song at the time, for as far as I know.
Flash is really like a foreign language to me, I hope I am wrong and learn about a solution quickly.

By daxonmacs, # 15. June 2008, 08:49:25