Adding Mog Widget
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Hi there, I’m new to blogging and am trying to add a widget to the sidebar that will show what music I’m listening to. It’s provided by a site called mog.com. In order to do this I’m trying to create a text widget and am pasting the following code into the body of the text widget:
<embed src=”http://mog.com/swf/mog.swf” quality=”high” width=”120″ height=”240″ class=”small white” align=”middle” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” FlashVars=”feed_url=/swampfox/last_songs_played/xml&style=white&size=small” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer” />
I have given it a title called “Mog” and then hit the Save Changes button. Then I view the site and only the “Mog” title appears on the sidebar, with nothing in the “body.”
Any thoughts?
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You’re welcome, although I wish it could have been otherwise. If all you want to do is show a list and not have a playable widget, that’s doable (somehow) through last.fm with a text widget. You can see one on a wordpress.com blog at http://thepriceoflove.net and there might be instructions here in the forum for how to do it.
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I was just looking at my playlist at last.fm and now I see how you can bring in the list. It has a feed! You could just put your playlist into an RSS widget and voila!
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Hmmm…. feeling a little luddite-ish over here. Brain not quite up to snuff at this hour of day(!)
What if I want to simply link to a music file. Where does one generally host the file without incurring some cost? I can see from the wordpress FAQ that all I need to do is go “[audio http://filename.com%5D” but have yet to find a free place to host that music file online. Any ideas there?
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You can make it a video file by making the audio a soundtrack of a video, and just putting a single title slide up. Then you can host it at YouTube, etc. Does that make sense?
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Didn’t someone mention a few days ago that you can host audio files through Google Pages?
I know I just uploaded a bunch of .pdf file files to my Google Pages space last night so a co-worker could grab them.
I’ve gotta dash off to work, but I’ll try it later and report in.
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Stewarttest2 – good thinking, that could work for sure.
If there is a “clean” way to do the straight audio file without video, and without incurring cost, that would be my perfect little blog world scenario : )
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katm – I just tried to upload a 5 mb song file to a google page and it sat for about 30 minutes without successfully uploading. Is it usually this hard to get a large(r) file onto their servers?
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