Adding mp3 audio to Wordpress blog
I’m just testing out this Wordpress plugin that allows one to add mp3 audio to my blog. There were a few caveats. It only plays mp3 files (an Adobe flash player is what the cause) and mp3 files need to be encoded at 11.025 kHz 22.050 kHz or 44.100 kHz to avoid the “chipmunk” effect which plays the sound at double speed.
It’s pretty simple it seems. Download from Wordpress mp3 plugin. In vista, it automatically unzips the files and then upload the directory “audio-player” and the file “audio-player.php” to the “wp-content/plugins” directory, then set the the plugin to active in your Admin control panel plugin tab. Once that is complete, create a folder called “audio” in your webroot. You can change the default to another directory by changing the directory location of your mp3 files in the options page for “Audio Player”. Then upload your mp3 file to this directory. Now add the code:
[audio:name_of_mp3_file.mp3]
Here is a sample:
Opps. There seems to be files missing on this one. I’ll have to look into this and find out.
I realized that I simply uploaded the unzipped folder “audio-player” into the “wp-content/plugins” folder which isn’t correct. The file “audio-player” file needs to go to the directory “wp-content/plugins” and the “audio-player” folder and its contents to the same directory “wp-content/plugins”. What I did initially was upload the unzipped “audio-player/audio-player” folder and its content to the “wp-content/plugins”. Not quite sure if this makes sense to anyone though. There is no sound but it should work. I’ll upload an actual sound file later.
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