Audio Player Wordpress Plugin for MP3’s

05. Aug, 2008 5 Comments

Looking for a great MP3 player for your Wordpress Blog?

I searched everywhere looking for a great MP3 player and I think I have finally found a easy to use MP3 Wordpress Plugin.

Introducing the “Audio Player Wordpress Plugin.”

I have mentioned my brother, Isaac Farr’s website on here a few times. When I created his site I obviously needed a reliable MP3 player to help him promote his music through his website. That’s when I came across the Audio Player Wordpress Plugin.

You can view the MP3 player in action on Isaac Farr’s website here.

Examples of the Audio Player

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.

Installation and FAQ’s

Requirements

Audio Player requires WordPress 2.1 or higher and is compatible up to WordPress 2.5.1

The player is compatible with Adobe Flash Player 9 and above and requires JavaScript to work properly.

The admin panel and the player were tested in the following browsers:

Firefox 2 and above

Internet Explorer 6 and above

Safari 3.0

Opera 9.0 and 9.5

Note: The automatic close feature doesn’t work in Opera 9.0. It does work in 9.5. Opening a player doesn’t automatically close any other open player.

New install: First time installing Audio Player on your WordPress blog

Download the plugin zip file

Extract the contents of the zip file to your local hard drive

Upload the audio-player folder to your WordPress site in the wp-content/plugins folder

The folder structure of your blog should look like this:

Log in to your WordPress admin and go to the Plugins section. You should now see Audio Player in the list of available plugins

Activate the plugin by clicking the activate link

Now go to the Settings section (Options for WordPress pre 2.5) and select Audio Player where you can configure the plugin

The developer of this plugin has great documentation on his site here, 1 Pixel Out and he also has a site completely dedicated to this wordpress plugin: Wordpress Audio Player

Activating the Plugin

Here’s a quick run down on activating the plugin and inserting it into a post/page.

You’ll need to access your site via FTP and create a new directory called “audio”.
Copy your .MP3 or whatever audio files into the directory.
Inside wordpress go to the plugin settings page and on the general tab, set the default audio location. (e.g. “/audio”) SEE EXAMPLE:

audio_location

Inside the post or page you call for the file like so:

View your post/page!

I hope you enjoy this MP3 Wordpress plugin as much as I have.

Still have questions? Leave a comment and I’ll try my best to get you through any problems you run into.

More to come…

By the way, I take quite a bit of time posting these so any feedback, comments or if these tutorials are helping you guys I would more then appreciate it

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5 Responses to “Audio Player Wordpress Plugin for MP3’s”

Web Design Tutorials Reply 03. Sep, 2008 at 3:21 pm

Thx a lot for the nice tutorial and the psd – exactly what I was looking for!
JR Farr Reply 03. Sep, 2008 at 3:40 pm

Thanks for the comment! By the way you’re site is awesome!

Love the design

I’ll need to go through all of your tutorials but it looks very well done.

-JR
Joomla Experts Reply 16. Jul, 2009 at 12:33 pm

Thanks for this great post, this is very useful and interesting.
Lemont Reply 09. Mar, 2010 at 12:44 pm

hey man
I tried installing audio player. when I click verify in settings it says audio file is missing. What code do I install on this site. can you walk me through the steps
- JR Farr Reply 09. Mar, 2010 at 3:17 pm
  
  Yeah for sure man. Essentially the way I did it for my brothers site was like this.
  
  1. You’ll need to access your site via FTP and create a new directory called “audio”.
  
  2. Copy your .MP3 or whatever audio files into the directory.
  
  3. Inside wordpress go to the plugin settings page and on the general tab, set the default audio location.
  
  (e.g. “/audio”)
  
  3. Inside the post or page you call for the file like so:
  
  [audio:ambitious_heart.mp3|titles=Ambitious Heart|artists=Isaac Farr]
  
  I’ll revise the post now for other readers to have better instructions. OR you can visit the plugin authors site as well.
  
  Hope that helps!