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You can share music on your blog by linking to an audio file, by purchasing the space upgrade and uploading music files to your media library, or by using a third-party service.

Adding Audio Files to Your Blog

There are 3 ways to do this:

1) Upload an mp3 file (Note that only mp3 supported, this is a Flash limitation) somewhere on the internet and link to it like this [audio ] with the address inside like this:

[audio http://wpcom.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/mattmullenweg-interview.mp3]

which will produce the following player:

(The recording is 5 minutes from Tom Raftery’s interview with Matt and Donncha. Check out his Podleaders site for the full interview!)

Important Notes

  • Please note that if you copy and paste the above code into your visual editor, it will result in errors because there are a few HTML tags within the brackets that are needed so that we can actually display the code (as opposed to the audio player).
  • There should be a space between audio and http.
  • Only mp3 audio files can be played on WordPress audio player.

2) Buy the Space Upgrade. This allows you to upload mp3, m4a, wav, and ogg files to your blog.

To upload the file, click on “Add New” under the Media icon in the sidebar of your dashboard and select the file from your computer.

Note that only mp3 audio files can be directly played on WordPress audio player. For other types of audio, it may be played on other embedded media players.

3) Create a download link to a file elsewhere and rely on your reader’s machines to play it.

If you are uploading or linking to any file, please respect all copyright.

Note: The audio player expects the file to be encoded at 44.1kHz

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Customizing the Audio Player

Audio player with default colors

[audio http://wpcom.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/mattmullenweg-interview.mp3]

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Example of color customizations

[audio http://wpcom.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/mattmullenweg-interview.mp3 |bg=0x0000ff|righticon=0xff0000]

(Note: Do not put a space in the code after ‘mp3′ as you see above. This was used in order to make the information wrap in the layout. The only space inside the brackets should be between ‘audio’ and ‘http.’)

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Default Color options

  • bg=0xF8F8F8
  • leftbg=0xEEEEEE
  • lefticon=0×666666
  • rightbg=0xCCCCCC
  • rightbghover=0×999999
  • righticon=0×666666
  • righticonhover=0xFFFFFF
  • text=0×666666
  • slider=0×666666
  • track=0xFFFFFF
  • border=0×666666
  • loader=0×9FFFB8
  • bgcolor=0xFFFFFF

In order to use the audio player and upload music to your blog, you will need to purchase the Space Upgrade.