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Free Online Music Players For Your Wordpress Blog

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Embedding audio streaming into websites or blogs are getting common these days. And we all know that media on websites or blogs is going to stay and for providing better experience to our readers, we always find the best tools.

There are various other reasons too for placing audio or music clips for experienced web designers and musicians such as creating more opportunities in increasing sales and sign ups to their products and services. An online Music player is no rocket science for the website owners.

These website music players provides various functions to build your own Jukebox on your websites and most importantly the way you want ranging from different sizes to colors which-ever suits your web design the most. You can add hundreds and thousands of songs into these music players from loads of music related resources available on the net.

In this article, we compiled a list of free music players for your websites and blogs which surely helps you in saving lots of time while researching on these. And I am confident, if you are looking for some media solutions, you will surely find the best player here according to your need. With these online music players, you can easily add the songs and also most of these players are customizable and you can choose the best skins which suit the web design of yours.

1) Flowplayer 3.1 : Flowplayer is an Open Source (GPL 3) video/audio player for the Web. Use it to embed video streams into your web pages. Built for site owners, developers, hobbyists, businesses and serious programmers.

Installation Instructions / WordPress Plugin

2) JW Player : The JW FLV Player is the Internet’s most popular and flexible media player. It supports playback of any format the Adobe Flash Player can handle (FLV, MP4, MP3, AAC, JPG, PNG and GIF).It also supports RTMP, HTTP, live streaming, various playlists formats, a wide range of settings and an extensive javascript API.

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3) Dewplayer : Dewplayer is very light and easy to use flash mp3 player. The flash animation is very light and doesn’t take time to load the webpage. It downloads and plays the mp3 file when the play button is pressed. Dewplayer is very light and easy to use. The Multi version allows users to play previous and next songs via the buttons. Dewplayer comes in 5 sizes :

  • Mini – 160 x 20
  • Classic – 200 x 20
  • Multi – 240 x 20
  • Playlist – 240 x 200
  • Bubble – 250 x 65

Installation instructions / WordPress Plugin

4) MP3 Player : MP3 Player is free, open-source and customized flash music player for websites or blogs. It has 5 different modes which allows you to integrate the player you like or which one suits the best in your website or blogs. MP3 Player comes in 5 sizes :

  • Mini
  • Normal
  • Multi
  • JS
  • Maxi

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5) WP Audio Player : WP Audio Player is a WordPress Plug-in which help you to play MP3 file directly into your post. It’s very simple to use and customize. It comes with various skins, below is the default skin it comes with. You can also use this player in non-wordpress websites too.

Download / Installation Instructions / Tutorial for non- wordpress websites

6) Yahoo Media Player : The Yahoo! Media Player enhances your web site or blog by creating an embedded player for each audio link. All the links can be played with one click, turning the page into a playlist. This is done by adding our JavaScript to your page.

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7) Premium Beat Flash MP3 Players : Premiumbeat.com offers the easiest way to add music to your website with detailed instructions. You can choose one flash mp3 player from 4 options available with quick installation guide available.

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8 ) Flash MP3 Player : Flash MP3 Player is a free application that allows you to play music on your website easy and fast. You won’t need any programming skills to install or use it. Just embed it into your website and player will automatically scan a specified folder and form a playlist.

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9) Flabell Flash MP3 Player : Fully customizable MP3 Player, built with support for multiple Artists and Albums. Everything is XML customizable, including player and images size, player colors, speed and transition effects.This Flash Mp3 Player contains a handful of features and settings. It is easy to use the player in your Flash projects or as an independent Flash Mp3 Player on your website or Myspace page. It is as easy as moving some actionscript files around, and dragging the movieclip containing the Flash Mp3 Player in your Flash file.

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10) XSPF Web Music Player : XSPF Web Music Player is a flash-based web application that uses xspf playlist format to play mp3 songs. XSPF is the XML Shareable Playlist Format. The software is written in Actionscript 2. XSPF Music Player comes in 3 versions :

  • Extended
  • Slim
  • Button

Download / Installation Instructions

11) Macromedia Flash MP3 Music Player : This sample flash music player can play up to 25 of your favorite mp3′s continuously. You can make the music automatically play or have a manual start. Click the button on the left to pause the music and click it again to continue play. It will match your website because you can customize the music player using html color codes. Knowledge of Macromedia Flash is not necessary and the Flash program is not required. The music player is updated via a dynamic control file.

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12) jPlayer : jPlayer is a jQuery plugin which allows you to play and control audio files in your webpage. You can create and style audio player using HTML and CSS. jPlayer comes in 7 versions :

  • Stylish Audio Player
  • Stylish Audio and Playlist Player
  • Multi Instanced Player
  • Text Based Player with Track Switching
  • Text based player with track switching using custom code
  • Text Based player with progress bar
  • ThemeRoller Version

Download / Demo + Installation Instructions of each player version

13) niftyPlayer : NiftyPlayer is a small and simple Flash Mp3 Player. If you enable Javascript, you can even control the player without touching the Flash interface.

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14) Website Music Player : Easily add music to your Web site with this advanced flash mp3 player and stream your music with style. No programming knowledge required. Simply upload your Mp3s to the MP3 directory and the songs are automatically added to the playlist. Then just copy-and-paste the code into any Web page. Features include collapsible playlist, graphic equalizer, volume control, song position slider, percentage of song loaded display, reliable buffering and song control buttons (previous song, play, pause, stop, and next song)

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15) FLAMPlayer : This is an mp3 player built in Flash, and so, it can be embedded in an Html page. It works using PHP and MySQL. The database stores the authors and tracks characteristics, the PHP scripts manage the communication between the Flash player and the MySQL database.FLAM Player includes a back-end allowing the fast addition of tracks, the edition of authors or tracks characteristics, the creation of playlists and the simple integration of the player in a page.

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16) Zanorg Player : If you looking for some simple  MP3 player for your blog or website which can play a single file of your need than Zanorg Player is best option for you.

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17) AudioPlay : AudioPlay is a one button Freeware MP3 player based on Flash technology. Simple upload AudioPlay and music file to your web page account. Edit configuration (config.xml or put options directly to URL). You could customize background color, loop settings and autostart options. You can customize player’s play/stop button by preparing your own button images. If you are looking for demo player for your sound clips or background music player for your website then AudioPlay is ideal for you.

18) Wimpy MP3 Player for WordPress : Wimpy MP3 Player is the is the simple way to present streaming audio content on your web page or web server. Wimpy is by far the most flexible online audio player.

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19) WordPress Plugin – Flash MP3 Player : This plugin can display a highly customizable MP3 player on your sidebar, in a single post page or any other places on your blog pages. It provides a lot of feature which other complex features can’t provide.

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20) WP Audio – WordPress MP3 Player Plugin : If you are not a fan of flash players, then this is the right choice for you. They said, ” Deactivate that lame Flash player and install a plugin that makes you proud to embed mp3s. WPaudio installs in seconds, looks great, and is easy to use.” You can convert all mp3 links, just the ones you specify, or you can use tags with advanced download options. Customize font, size, and colors right from WordPress.

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21) Taragana’s Del.icio.us mp3 Player WordPress Plugin : This plugin makes any mp3 links (in post or page or any other location in your blog) playable directly on your webpage. In addition, your visitors will have the opportunity to easily tag and post the mp3 link to del.icio.us. This script is extremely lightweight, as is the flash movie that plays on demand. Must-have for podcasters or anyone who wants to allow blog visitors to play mp3 files on the website itself.

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22) Silverlight Audio Player : Silverlight Audio Player is a simple audio player that can be used for playing back one or more audio files. It currently supports two styles of player. The first plays a single file and is based on the visual design of the WordPress audio player. The second allows you to play multiple files.

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23) Website MP3 player – DNeX FMP256 : This unique Flash application lets you put a fast, small and reliable playlist-driven MP3 player on your website. It can play up to six MP3 tracks from anywhere on the Web, delivered to all the major web browsers and mobile platforms that support Flash Player 8 or above.

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24) 1 Bit Audio Player : 1 Bit Audio Player is a very simple and lightweight Adobe Flash MP3 player with automatic JavaScript insertion. It’s main purpose is to act as a quick in-page preview for audio files you link to from your website or blog. The player can be easily installed as a WordPress plugin or used stand-alone in any website. Small audio players will than automatically appear next to any MP3s you link to.

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25) Iradeo : Free open source MP3 player and online radio streaming platform. Start streaming your mp3 files, it’s easy. Launch your online radio station today.

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While putting this list, we tried our best to put the best and free options available for online music player. If you feel, that we missed something which fits in this list, please be kind and share with us.

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Get Your Blog Google Ranked in 30 Days or Less

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Blogs have been around long enough to become standard elements of the web landscape. They’re easy to construct and manage, they create fresh, user-generated content and, if well-executed, blogs draw crowds and the attention of search engines.

Whether starting out with a new domain name, or a domain that’s been around for a decade, you can rank your blog on Google if you just do what Google wants you to do. So here are 25/50 tips to get your blog ranked by the world’s biggest SE.

50. Build your own or move to Wordpress. Wordpress is a blog platform that’s open source (free), robust, extensible and easy to use. Add Feedburner, which equips site owners to broadcast RSS feeds and develop user metrics. Next, synch up Google Analytics and a sitemap plug-in to simplify populating the blog and developing useful, actionable metrics. Also, make sure your blog is pinging Technorati and other social media sites like digg.

49. Don’t worry aboutpage rank. PR is highly over-rated as a yardstick of online success. Connectivity within a web community and expansion through content syndication and guest blogging are more critical to building site credibility than page rank. PR will take care of itself over time if you do it right.

48. Make a difference, or at least have a clear purpose. Differentiate your content on every post. Cover lots of editorial ground.

47. Use a conversational tone. Dry, starchy academic writing is strictly for the textbooks. Write words that people “hear” instead of read.

46. Provide a “Tell Your Friends” link on your blog. Birds of a feather do, indeed, flock together. So, if one of your regulars shares an interest in philately, chances are s/he has other friends with an interest in stamp collecting.

45. Study the competition. They’re studying you. Check out SpyFu to do a little undercover work on search analytics employed by competitor sites and their visitors. You can’t touch the content but you can’t copyright an idea, either, so pick up some new paths of thought from others in your site’s arena.

44. Remember SEO basics. Use provocative, keyword-rich title tags, meta keywords and descriptions, and only link to high-quality sites. Never over do it. Keep your posts relevant, natural, accurate and, above all, current.

43. Don’t stuff blog post titles with keywords. It’s a form of keyword stuffing and spiders hate keyword stuffing. The ratio in headlines should be ~40% keywords, ~60% non-keywords.

42. Submit your URL to blog directories. There are “best of the web,” and paid directories, like Yahoo, and free directories like the Open Directory Project. Every directory listing is another link to your site and another way visitors can find you. Just google them to find more.

41. Create blog categories that contain keywords, i.e., Ecommerce, SEO, Affiliates, etc. for use with a “site hosting” or “site design” blog.

40. Content quality counts. Research topics about which target readers want to learn. Write something new, useful and relevant. And don’t forget to regularly update older posts. Things change fast on the web so last year’s “next big thing” is this year’s hackneyed cliché.

39. Vary topics, content length, relevancy and posting times. However, be consistent, as well. Keep blogging. It can take time for a blog to catch the notice of a search engine spider.

38. Get guest bloggers. Add links from their blogs and establish your site’s link community. There are people within your web neighborhood with opinions and good information. Contact them to invite submissions to your blog and your site in general.

37. Don’t use duplicate content. The only duplicate content that appears in your blog posts are quotes, and they should be identified with quotation marks.

36. Call posters by name. If Bob M. from Athens, Georgia, posts to your blog, recognize his contribution with a “Thanks, Bob” at the end of your response.

35. Make friends with other bloggers in your commercial, business or NFP space. Ask to become a guest blogger, or seek endorsements from the “names” within your site sphere.

34. Send a personal note to posters. Not all bloggers have the time to do this but if you can send a personal email thank-you note to a poster, you’ve increased the chances of that poster becoming a member of your site community.

33. Encourage viral link building. Take a stand. Introduce the coming paradigm shift in web commerce, provoke controversy. It sells. Just ask Ann Coulter.

32. Ensure the blog is optimized for Technorarri. Claim your blog, set an avatar and pings, use tags where appropriate and be sure to ping various blog tracking sites.

31. Don’t place ads on your blog, yet. If you feel you must (you’re seeing nice PPC revenues), determine that your site’s HTML is optimized to position those ads at the bottom of each blog page.

30. If your blog isn’t pulling, have the code reproduced so it’s as semantic, accessible and code-to-content optimized as possible. Also, hire a code expert to position content above ads or any other content in the site markup.

29. Ignore Alexa. A lot of new site owners rely on Alexa for site metrics but remember, Alexa is a popularity metric since only Alexa toolbar users contribute data — and that’s a less-than-universal test population.

28. Build credibility. Publishing authorities on your site’s topicality usually does the trick. Once blog credibility is established, identify trends, solve new problems and gradually expand the topic range of your blog.

27. Buy or build a hot blog design and submit it to design galleries. Hire a site/blog designer, or bring your vision to fruition. This enables your blog to appear five or six demographic iterations from your home site, expanding the site’s reach outside the immediate site community. This creates new marketing channels fast.

26. Develop some friendly contacts on social media sites and participate in the community. Ask contacts to promote your blog content. Also ask for contributors. People love to express their opinions.

25. Focus on ranking for three key words or phrases to start. The keywords you select should appear in your HTML title tags and within the site’s content when appropriate. However, watch keyword density levels. Anything above 5% starts to sound like gibberish. 2% to 3% keyword density provides more creative latitude for the content developer, and still lets bots know what the site is about.

24. Only purchase ad links on relevant niche sites. This, by default, limits competitive links and delivers more qualified (knowledgeable and ready-to-purchase) visitors to your site.

23. Participate in your link community. Forum and blog links are ephemeral, lasting a day or two as web fodder, so there’s always the need for more green. Interact by posting to not only drive traffic with the link, but to also pick up another link from a credible site. All good.

22. Publish new content on weekdays. Even search engines need a break. Actually, more people are online Monday through Friday so your latest blog post is still the latest when posted on Monday rather than Sunday. A little thing, for sure, but little things mean a lot online.

21. Write content for various experience levels. For many spaces DIYs are the largest sector. Some readers are just starting out. Others have been at it for years and probably know more than you do, so post blogs to appeal to a broad range of skill sets — from green rookie to wizened old vet.

20. Cite the sources of your content. This adds credibility to your posts. It also provides a trail for a reader interested in learning more about the topic at hand.

19. Focus on contextual relevancy before quantity of links. Connectivity within a market or topic segment has more value than SEO anchor text, at least in the short term.

18. Poll your readers. Everybody’s got an opinion. Provide a platform to let posters and readers vote on a topic related to your site. It doesn’t do any good if you run a retail outlet and poll visitors on who they’d like to see in the White House. Stay on topic.

17. Create surveys. Surveys are more in depth than a poll. One survey you might want to try is one in which buyers rate the services and products you sell. Great marketing information. Consider placing a satisfaction survey somewhere on your site.

16. Write about popular brands or celebrities where possible. It doesn’t matter if you’re blogging short sales in the market or clothing for the over-sized human, celebrity and name brands get picked up by spiders.

15. Find free stuff to give away. Free still works on the web. There’s lots of open source software (OSS), mortgage calculators, real-time stock feeds and other digital goodies that visitors can download free. Free is nice.

14. Answer questions on Google groups and Yahoo Answers. People write in with all sorts of questions, some sure to fall within your area of expertise. By signing on as an authority in a field (your arena) you build credibility. Plus, it’s fun helping others from the comfort of your own work station.

13. Add imagery and video content to your posts. A picture is worth a thousand web words. Charts and graphs simplify complex information and don’t take up a lot of room. If you aren’t an artist, create a relationship with a freelancer. Never use clip art.

12. Use QA sessions in your blog. You’re the expert. Also, invite guest bloggers to handle questions beyond your skill set. Helpful, simple advice keeps visitors coming back and makes you a guru.

11. Syndicate content outside of your blog. Every site owner needs content. Fortunately, there’s plenty of it free for the taking. Sites like Helium, Ezine and Go Articles are content supermarkets. Post your piece and pick up non-reciprocal, in-bound links for your effort. Content syndication increases link popularity.

10. Direct (future) page rank efforts to well-optimized content on your home site. Don’t direct visitors and bots to the garbage bin of out-dated content stored in the site’s archives. Point them to the new news.

9. Update or create a Wikipedia page and link to your site. Another means of establishing yourself as an authority. Just make sure the Wiki piece is accurate, well written and typo-free.

8. Submit industry or topical news to general news sites. Not just industry related sites. If a small oil and gas company brings in a gusher, it’s of broader interest than to just industry insiders. Also adds credibility and another link.

7. Deep links or links to sub-pages are vital. There’s a tendency to link from a remote site to your home page. Not necessarily the best strategy. Consider linking to pages deeper in the site – pages related directly to your blog post. This way, visitors are in your site and less likely to bounce.

6. Respond to comments in your blog. This accomplishes three important objectives: (1) it shows that there’s a human behind the blog; (2) it gives you a chance to show your expertise; and (3) you can lead the thread in a new direction or keep the discussion going. Oh, it’s also the polite thing to do, as well.

5. Cross link your posts. Link amongst your related blog posts using the keywords you’re optimizing your blog for as the anchor text.

4. Get linked alongside related blogs on other sites. You can contact the blog administrator to swap links, you can become a regular guest blogger if your writing is good enough or your knowledge extensive. Niche sites are great for building blog links networks.

3. Bait your blog. Post unconventional and controversial articles to create lengthy threads that, in turn, create site stickiness.

2. Be consistent into month two. Keep the tone, style and topicality of your blog consistent for the first two months until spiders get it. Then, you can branch out to peripheral topics to expand reader interest.

1. Network offline. Helpful networking tools include LinkedIn, MeetUp and MyBlogLog. These sites provide real world contacts to simplify and streamline the process of networking. They’re also useful in building beneficial online relationships – not to be overlooked. Also reach out using conferences that are available in your area and abroad.

The keys to building a successful, well-tended blog run the gamut from good content to good contacts, and from credibility to controversy. There are lots of ways to expand your blog community and develop quality rankings at the same time

Once you’ve got all of this down your next steps are to begin monetizing your site.

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Using Wordpress as an Enterprise Alerts Database

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Good monitoring systems are a must in an enterprise environment. We use Nagios as our main monitor to keep an eye on system load, disk use, CPU utilization, and other items of interest. We also have several built-in monitoring systems, like HP’s blade center software, and VMware’s Virtual Center, as well as a few one-off scripts that monitor something here or there that I haven’t gotten around to integrating into Nagios yet. All of these monitoring systems send emails to either our desktops or our cell phones as text messages, depending on the severity of the alert. There was a time when these emails were simply lost forever once they were deleted from our inbox or phone, until I setup a Wordpress install on our control server and created a simple database for storing the alerts as blog posts.

Wordpress includes a script (wp-mail.php) that will check a pop3 inbox for mail, download the mail, and add the contents of the mail to a new blog post. To create the database, I simply added a new alert email address to all of our monitors. Then, I created a cron job that runs a curl command that calls the wp-mail.php script. By default, wp-mail.php will not post the contents of the email, but will instead add the post as a draft, and wait for manual intervention to publish it. I found that a single change to the php code removes this behavior, so that new alerts are immediately posted to the front page of the site. To make the change, look for $post_status and make sure that all settings say ‘publish’.

Once there are a significant number of alerts logged in the database, the usefulness of the setup becomes apparent. When we run into a problem, we can search the database for the server name, or the text of the alert to see if and when we have had the problem before. We use the comments to provide explanation of what happened, and how we fixed the problem, creating something akin to an expert system.

Wordpress itself is resilient and fast, especially since the majority of what it does for us is writing to the database. Once we started collecting alerts and using the system, we started sending other emails into the database as well. Completed virus scan notices from ClamAV, the output of df scripts, copies of users bash history files, and anything else we can think of that might be of contextual value when troubleshooting a problem.

The setup is not perfect. I’m still trying to find a way to automatically categorize incoming posts based on keywords in the subject line. When I upgrade Wordpress, I need to remember to go back in and make the modifications to wp-mail.php, or else I wind up with a very large drafts queue. This is also not a very secure setup, as it is meant to be run behind a firewall in a protected environment. Other than that, we have been very happy with how Wordpress has integrated in with the rest of our open source infrastructure.

This setup exemplifies to me the beauty of open source software. That we can take a project and use it in a way that it was not intended by its creator, but still have it work extremely well. Do you have any suggestions for our setup? Or, have you put something similar together? Start a conversation in the comments and let me know what you’ve done!

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