Audio player not appearing in post

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  lloydlondon · Member · Jun 13, 2009 at 7:14 pm

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  I have just upgraded on WordPress to upload MP3 files. In my post on this page http://lloydlondon.wordpress.com/music/ I have added an audio file and have followed the instructions here http://support.wordpress.com/audio/ to add the audio player feature. However, the player is not appearing in my post, rather the reader can click on the song title link “Time” and a new page opens. I would like to have the audio player feature.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 13, 2009 at 7:21 pm

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  The “insert audio” thing seems to sometimes be a little finicky. Try using the audio shortcode.

  [audio http://lloydlondon.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/time.mp3]

  Make sure and enter it in the HTML tab. It should work in the visual tab as well, but again that seems finicky. Entering it in the HTML tab works every time for me.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 13, 2009 at 7:22 pm

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  That was supposed to be a continuous line in my example.

  [audio URL of audio file]

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jun 13, 2009 at 7:50 pm

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  Also, sometimes [audio URL] won’t work and [audio=URL] will.

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  lloydlondon · Member · Jun 15, 2009 at 8:11 pm

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  Thanks, the audio player now appears on the page, but I’m getting the error “File Not Found” when I press play on all songs here: http://lloydlondon.wordpress.com/music/

  What am I doing wrong?

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jun 15, 2009 at 8:51 pm

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  As I can see in the source code of your page, you’ve done what tsp advised you not to do: pasted the URLs in the visual editor instead of the html editor. You should either go to the visual editor, highlight the URLs and click the Unlink button, or go to the html editor and make sure the code is no more than that:

  [audio URL_HERE]