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Anyone have any suggestions for a FREE and EASY mp3 player to install on a webpage to play my music?

Free and Easy --- that's the keywords..............

Thanks EVERYONE!

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Why not just put the mp3s up and let the user's browser do the work? That's what I do on my page. Check out http://www.nortonmusic.com/styledemo.html and see if you can play them.

Plus, please don't let the music start playing as soon as the page loads. Have the viewer click to play the music. (don't use the embed tag)

When I got to a web site that starts singing, playing music, or talking without being asked to do so, I can't get to the close button fast enough. And I've talked to a lot of other people who do the same.

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Ray, Notes

I set my web page up with embedded tags BUT the tags don't play unless you click on the song title and then it starts at 50% volume. The web page opens up silent. Biggest problem is that between the time I did the coding, Firefox moved to version 3 and would no longer play embedded MP3s unless the visitor was also running Quicktime to handle the MP3.

I have since discovered that Firefox will open an embedded WMA file in Windows Media Player. So embedded WMAs open with IE8 and Firefox 3.x. I have tried several solutions to save all of the embedded coding for MP3s but to no avail. So now any new songs I add, I do as WMA.

Any solutions? Check out my site link below and see how it responds to your browser. Comment buttons are on my webpage - don't hi-jack Ray's thread.

Ray - basically what I did was what Notes suggested and that was to allow each visitor's browser to respond to my site's coding choices and choose their own playback method. Be interested to hear what choice you make.

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You can try AudioPlayer- though originally built for WordPress, it works on anything.

http://wpaudioplayer.com/standalone

You'll need to know a little bit about HTML but that's it.


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Hi Ray,

If you sign up for Soundcloud, you get an embeddable widget for each tune you post that you can put on your site.

Free, and easy to use. You also get an option to allow people to download the original file. Also allows people to leave comments on your tune, if you're into that sort of thing.

That's what I use to spam my tracks on Facebook and various forums..

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Ray,

Ditto to what Notes say above . . . I also just let the visitor choose the song, when to play it and have it played in his/her browser. Now that is not because I did not want one of those fancy widget players, it's just because I could never get one to work within my Wordpress website.

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Ray,

I'll have to give a thumbs up to Kent's suggestion. Soundcloud was rec'd to me by Scot, (aka rockstar_not), and it's free for up to 2 Gigs and you can choose to allow downloads or not. If you have more than 2 Gigs you can subscribe. It also shows a "wave" form as the person listens and allows them to comment.

Then you won't have to worry about a player. It works across numerous platforms.

Here's a sample of my page so you can see if you like the format.

http://soundcloud.com/bobcflatpicke/music-in-the-mountains

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