Audio plugin for WordPress.com blogs
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It would be great if the IT team of WordPress.com could include into the WordPress.com plugins the Audio Player Plugin so we could post sounds in our posts, in the same way as we do with YouTube or Google Video.
Regards,
j4mesw.
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Thanks you for reading the FAQ. Note that there are currently no plugins allowed on wordpress.com due to security reasons. Note also that all plug-in requests for future consideration are made via feedback from your dashboard.Also note that these features are available on your own servers or through web hosting.
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I think it would be cool if the WP.com team added some kind of audio feature. Audioblogging would appeal to a whole new audience.
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pilgrim, axim and scrambled – Have you all sent your feedback requests in to administration from your dashboards yet? I ask you all because this is a support forum and it would be wrong to expect staff to respond to this and the other duplicated posting on the same subject as though it was a cry for support when it’s really just “ideas” and chat.
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Audio blogging is great, I listen to many podcasts and such while I’m doing other stuff on the PC.
However, please please please please (is that enough?) do not use background music when the blog loads. I know that you can’t on wp.com at the moment, but it is so very annoying when you’re blog hopping at 2 am and have forgotten to turn the speakers down! It also interrupts the flow of a blog and immediately screams (to me anyway) that the blog isn’t interesting enough and the blogger needs to have some crappy midi music playing to keep the reader’s interest.
Sorry, went into rant mode there!
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However, please please please please (is that enough?) do not use background music when the blog loads.
HECK NO! One of the worst things you can do to a visitor is force them to listen to your choice of music. (Had a thread like this over at webhostingtalk a few days ago. A company put up an advert for their site and it loaded music automatically. They went to town on that guy.)
I don’t see any audio plugins listed over on the MU forums. I don’t know if anyone has found one that works. I do remember something about RSS issues with included popcasts though.
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I was being polite last night but I’m here to say that I concur with cornell and drmike.I hate, loathe and utterly despise [is the strong enough?] people who arrogantly force their music choices on me.
We all have experienced the dumb *coughs* who blast us with their banger box boom cars. We all have had ignorant *coughing* neighbours blast us from speakers on their decks and balconies. The last thing I want to endure when clicking into a blog is someone else’s taste in music.
If your aim is to make your blog hospitable enough for a broad range of “readers” to enter and “read” your content then this is definitely not the way to achieve that. If you have little intention of creating content and merely want to play “my blog is a radion station” then this is the way to go.Then your content can become nothing more or less than commercial sound bites to nibble on.
P.S. ptvguy has podcasting on his site and I like it. -
I think thepilgrim was discussing optional sounds files though, not the auto load type. :)
TP, you might want to send in a feedback and make the suggestion. That’s what Matt and crew have suggested as the prefered method for making such suggestions as they keep tabs on stuff like that when it comes into them.
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hmmmm, I am researching the whole blog software thing. It really is just a content management system when it comes down to it. so I wrote my own with ASP – http://www.pelicancafe.net in about 10 hours – the blogs landing page is here – http://www.pelicancafe.net/Blogs.asp. While it does not have RSS it does have a groovy movie player.
http://www.pelicancafe.net/Movies.asp
Does anyone know if I can take Word Press and do the same sort of thing? Make a movie player like this and use the Word Press System as a basis.Paul
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You really need to be discussing that idea over there as that’s more geared towards development while this is more of a Hosting Support forum. We also run a different code base that the standard WordPress install as well.
WordPress has about a dozen movie players of all sorts. Heck, even I’ve hacked one together out of someone’s else script once. :)
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sorry for the wrong category. i still do not see what I would call a video player
like this http://www.pelicancafe.net/Movies.asp If you have examples of your plugin
being used in a way more than embedding the video (pretty straight forward just hard codom
ing, that would be cool.thanks!
Paul
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Um, actually that’s not a plug in. That’s Windows Media Player. Uses embed tags and those are stripped out for security concerns.
You may want to check the FAQ posted at the head of this forum. It has a pair of links on how to use video from other sites.
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Of course it is Windows Media and is embedded just as
Flash is embedded. What I am looking for is something that is like
the link above but has been developed for word press. Just looking
for examples ala URLS of sites that go beyond plopping video
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Rumor has it that there will be a few more supported shortly.
And, no, I don’t know when.
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DRMike, the first post brings up a WP Plugin (http://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin/).
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and also a LOT of people read blogs at work– so no background music ! should probably explain why the hits go down during weekends ;-)
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