Project Playlist
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Hello,
Could you please tell me do you support http://www.projectplaylist.com on WordPress? Because I’d like to have a selection of music on my blog. If this is allowed, is it easy to setup? I’ve only just managed to figure out and setup Lastfm!
I would appreciate your advice (when someone has the time to reply) ;)
Kind Regards,
Karen
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for music in your blog, we have a sonific songspot widget. that should fulfil what you want…
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Best bet would be to submit a feedback and request this. Staff has stated that they keep track of requests like these.
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sonific didn’t have TV on the Radio…which seemed to indicate that they’re missing something…
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I’m actually using Box.net –> http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/04/23/boxnet-filesharing-widget/ Quite cool.
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id like to know how to use projectplaylist as well. I got the second code that projectplaylist to show up on the page, but it just shows “Launch standalone player,” “get music player,” and “music tracks.”
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@tdankmyer
Please not that projectplaylist is not available for wordpress.com blogs. WordPress.com is a multi-user blogging platform and what’s available here is limited to what you find in the FAQs. If you want this to be introduced here please follow drmike’s instructions above and send a feedback to staff requesting it. -
box.net is okay, but they’re to restrictive. They’re practically forcing you to buy the pro upgrade
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consider this an additional request that project playlist be supported by wordpress.com blogs. Thank you.
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I would also like to request that project playlist be supported by wordpress.com blogs. I have used Sonific, but their song selection is very small. Thank you.
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You CAN get Project Playlist to work on wp.com – more or less.
I’ve got it working here (you need to click the play arrow, or the hyperlink ‘soundtrack’ on the page):
http://thepriceoflove.net/2007/10/01/a-soundtrack-to-the-price-of-love-1/
Here’s how I did it.
1* set up your playlist on projectplaylist.com
2* copy the ’embed’ code onto the page where you wish to see your playlist – you’ll have to try several versions of the code as given, but I think the myspace or ‘other blogs and sites’ may work.
3* when you publish the page, it shows only the top three buttons from your playlist page. But they work, although your playlist itself is invisible, unfortunately, because the code is stripped out.
4* to get around that problem, take a screen grab of your playlist page in projectplaylist.com, and then crop and resize to fit. You can use any image package – but I use IrfanView.com, where the screen capture function is at Options – capture/screen shot – click window – hit F11.
5* if the playlist is quite long, like mine, or your monitor screen is small, you’ll have to take several screen grabs. Then dump them all on a PowerPoint slide, and reassemble them into a single, larger image. Then group, or just select all – copy – paste into IrfanView – resize – save as a composite image on your hard disk.
6* save the new image in your wp.com image files using the ‘upload’ function.
7* ‘send to editor’ at the page and location required, beneath the three buttons described in step 3 above, and line up as best you can – mine’s not perfect, but as good as I can get it.
8* Now in the code editor, write a hyperlink from that image onto your playlist url at projectplaylist.com (see FAQ ‘how to write links’, if you’re stuck).
9* if you want, you can write a hyperlink onto a screen grabbed and similarly uploaded version of your ‘play’ button from projectplaylist.com – or just copy mine from the page above and edit it with your own playlist name, either in PowerPoint or IrfanView 4.1.
There’s a little bit of faffing involved, and it’s not a seamless fix, but it’s a reasonable workaround for now.
HTH, and drop me a line if it doesn’t …
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According to Automattic’s CEO, requests of this kind now need to be directed to the external sites themselves rather than wordpress.com, so you need to ask projectplaylist to make a wordpress widget and then contact staff here about adding it.
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Thanks, wank. Meanwhile, please see my solution just above, which is a quick workaround and goes some way to a temporary fix for projectplaylist.com.
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I put the project playlist code into my header-txt.php. I don’t like the way it looks, but it works! And since it’s on the header, it comes up on every page. I’ll work on it more later. Has anyone else tried this?
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If you put it in header-txt.php you’re in the wrong forums. You have a self hosted blog. Head over to http://wordpress.org/support
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Lastfm is highly recommended due to the fact the script language it runs on is an open source- XSPF: XML list of recommended websites. It should be of most blogger’s interest to use open source when possible and when its compliance.
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