How to embed audio in your posts

A few days ago, during a Skype conversation with Danny from GuitarPlayersCenter, he asked me about embedding audio in your WordPress posts. Since we all run guitar or music related blogs, most of them based on WordPress, and I guess everybody wanted at one moment to embed a song in his/her post , I have decided to speak here a bit about how you can do this. The fact is that is not a difficult thing to do, so, in case you are interested to add in-line audio to your posts, read on!

The solution I propose here is based on a WordPress plugin named Audio Player WordPress Plugin. Pretty straight forward, don’t you think? I installed here on this blog the beta version, Audio Player 2.0, which you can find here. For WordPress, download the first one, for everything else, go with the second one.

Being a plugin, it can be easy installed on your blog, I won’t go into installing WordPress plugins, but just in case you don’t know how to do it, it comes as a zip file, unzip it and copy the whole folder (named “audio-player”) into your plugins folder, usually in “BLOG_ADDRESS/wp-content/plugins/” so you should have it like this “BLOG_ADDRESS/wp-content/plugins/audio-player”

Then you need to activate this plugin from your Plugins page in your admin panel in WordPress (usually BLOG_ADDRESS/wp-admin/plugins.php), just click the Activate link near the name of the plugin, and you should be ready to go.

How you can actually embed music into your post? Well, pretty simple, when writing your daily guitar posts and you think you need an mp3 song in there, use the small icon that says “Add audio” when you keep the mouse over it, the 3rd one just about the editor area in your blog, the one looking like musical notes, pick your song, upload it and wait for the progress bar to reach the end.

Then write all the information you want about your song, then press the 4th button on the right, below the information area, where it says “Audio player” and then “Insert into post”.

That’s all it needs to be said. In case you already knew about this, well, no harm has been done, I guess. In case you didn’t know, well, enjoy, comment and…embed more songs into your posts!

Warning: every song you upload on your server will consume space, if an mp3 has abour 3.5M, then 10 songs will have around 35M. You should check to see what’s your available space on the server before running into space problems. Just to be sure…

And to illustrate my point, here’s a song I like from Alice Cooper, Somewhere in the jungle.

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.

Enjoy!

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