For those of you using wordpress.com blogs, you might already be using this player, Automattic folks have enabled the wp audio player for all the blogs in its multi user site WordPress.com the wp audio player which you, the wordpress.com folks use has been developed by Martin Laine
For self hosted WordPress blogs there is the same plugin to embed audio in the posts or pages can be had here http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/audio-player/. Originally developed by Martin Laine now it is being maintained by someone with username ‘doryphores‘ in licence and README of the plugin ‘doryphores’ is cited as contributer, the plugin is still copyright of Martin Laine, the plugin is linked to the wordpress plugin page in the site wpaudioplayer.com which we surely know is of Martin Laine
There is a similar player called µAudio Player by ‘jwriteclub’. this player places the player whenever an mp3 direct link is clicked.
Getting back to Martin Laine’s player WP Audio Player is highly configurable player, you can change its look to match with the theme color scheme.
It has many features:
Can show ID3 tags
Custom theme
right-to-left layout switch for Arabic and Hebrew language
Autostart and loop play
Once WP Audio Player is installed you just need a shortcode and direct link to the mp3 file to play an mp3 file.
There are different options which are detailed below:
Posting an mp3 to be played by Martin Laine’s Audio Player, you just need the shortcode which is like this:
Note: put the code in [ ] for it to function, the [ ] has been knowingly left out because these trigger the plugin to show a player instead of the code
audio:path_to_your_audio_file
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
and to embed a file:
audio:http://www.example.com/your_mp3_file.mp3
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
you can directly chnage the color scheme using settings or from options:
audio:http://example.com/your_mp3_file.mp3|bg=0x0000ff|lefticon=0xff0000
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
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=0x9FFFB8
bgcolor=0xFFFFFF
Player width:
Default player width is 290 px you can change it to a different pixel setting or can use percentahe like say 100%
audio:http://example.com/your_mp3_file.mp3|width=100%
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
How do I load multiple tracks into the player?
Use a comma delimited list of urls:
audio:http://www.domain.com/path/to/your_mp3_file_1.mp3,http://www.domain.com/path/to/your_mp3_file_2.mp3
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
You can also add titles for these tracks:
audio:your_mp3_file_1.mp3,your_mp3_file_2.mp3|titles=The title 1,The title 2|artists=The artist 1,The artist 2
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
You can repeat a song by looping it:
audio:http://www.domain.com/path/to/your_mp3_file.mp3|loop=yes
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Even for a single file:
audio:http://www.domain.com/path/to/your_mp3_file.mp3|titles=TITLE|artists=ARTIST
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
It must be noted that even for a single file you need to add options in plural titles and artists
Some other options
animation=no (player is always open)
remaining=yes (show remaining time instead of elapsed time)
initialvolume=80 (0 – 100, 60 is default)
there is more here:
FrequentlyAsked Questions
WordPressDotCom support
Troubleshooting
Hi!
Thanks for the post, i’ve an issue: i have an “autostart” song when a site is loaded, but when i navigate into the site the song start again. Is there any way to let the song playing while navigate into the site?
Thanks.
yeah you could use streampad player http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/streampad/ or could you provide a little more detail on how how you are using the player in a post, page, homepage? widget? where! and whether you want to play the music just for the loading time or whole the time if you want to play the music on a repeat mode there is an option for looping
[audio:http://www.domain.com/path/to/your_mp3_file.mp3|loop=yes]
I am developing a commercial wordpress plugin. DO I need to purchase license to use wpaudio in my pluin and distribute?
wp audio player has been authored by Martin Laine and is available under MIT licence which gives you power to modify/edit it and use it in your works without having to worry about the legal terms! at least that’s what can be inferred from the line written here at http://wpaudioplayer.com/license/ that says “Audio Player is released under the Open Source MIT license, which gives you the possibility to use it and modify it in every circumstance.” http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
Hey, I have successfully installed the WP audio player (version 2.0.4.1) and it shows in my sidebar exactly the way I want to, but the problem is that it won’t find or play my mp3 file…
The website I am designing is: http://www.antonruuditerapi.no
In my theme folder I have a folder named “audio” and a MP3-file called “test.mp3″.
This is the code in my sidebar:
In the audio player settings I have tried to “verify” the default audio folder location.
But I get this message:
Audio folder location not found. Please check that the following folder exists on your server:
/customers/e/1/4/antonruuditerapi.no/httpd.www/audio
Please help me out.
Cheers.
it requires the Audio folder in the root, where you have other files and folders like wp-content, wp-admin, wp-includes there create a folder named audio and then verify in the player settings! put your mp3 files in this folder, remember it is a limitation of flash that only mp3 files can be played!
if problem persists try contacting me using the contact form!
thanks!