One of my original wishes in doing a makeover of this blog was to add music reviews and clips of my favorite bands and songs. I was especially excited about the prospect of adding some Pinoy Rock–Filipino rock–to my blogging.
As a blogging platform I absolutely love WordPress. Its ease of use, features, widgets, the high quality of templates I can use and customizable CSS is hard to beat. My main complaint with it, however, is that it does not allow embedding Flash or Javascript.
This leaves guys like me hanging because much of the legal sources of streaming music with extensive libraries that I can really use is off limits. Sites like Trilogistick, and Imeem which use Flash technology as a way to embed music to blogs. Until WordPress allows Flash in its blogging platform, I can’t use these services to stream music.
Sure, I can add music to my WordPress blog using these specific instructions. But none of the techniques they offer is feasible for me to do without a financial outlay to purchase additional storage space and uploading my mp3 collection. And what I want to do is LEGAL streaming of music where I won’t get in trouble for streaming copyrighted music that I uploaded myself. I’d much rather get to a legit source of music and stream THEIR collection through my WordPress blog.
But alas, that won’t come to pass until either WordPress allows embedding Flash to blog posts or Imeem, Trilogistick and other sources of music find a way to share their collections to WordPress without violating WordPress’s policies.
Until then the best thing I can do is to link to music file URL from the blog
Noypi by Bamboo (click on link of song title for the Trilogistick site)
Arise by Wolfgang (click on link of song title for the Trilogistick site)
I understand your pain, though there are ways to get flash players and javascript to work on your site. I am still beta testing a plugin for my very own online radio station, and I have created a widget enabled plugin that allows me to have a flash player on my sidebar. Search long enough and you will find what you are looking for.
JC
JCRadio.net
By: JC on December 5, 2007
at 11:13 pm
^ You don’t get the point there dude, it’s about WordPress.com not allowing them at it totally has nothing to do with the widgets. Even if you successfully created a widget for your radio blog, how sure are you that your widget will be added to wordpress.com?
Just my 2 cents. =)
By: Euri on December 18, 2007
at 6:28 am
good work. keep up. thanks.
By: SEO Consulting on December 19, 2007
at 11:13 pm
this is a very nice blog that you have here. keep up the good work.
By: SEO on December 22, 2007
at 11:54 am
Are you talking about the a hosted wordpress blog? Can u turn off the visual rich editor? I out imeem tracks in wordpress all the time ( I have my own site built with wordpress). Email me with any questions you have.
By: eric on February 25, 2008
at 9:54 am
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By: Streaming Music Through Wordpress-music on March 6, 2008
at 3:02 am
Eric> yes, wordpress.org allows you to customize almost anything. the hosted one, wordpress.com doesn’t allow flash. though i really wish they would. soon.
By: zhizhen on March 17, 2008
at 3:24 am
thanks for the information
By: goldankauf on May 25, 2008
at 12:13 pm
are there any new plugins that solve this problem? i want to do streaming too. can be my own content, but i want to be able to link outside site also.
thanks, glad you pulled this info together before.
i’m going to try to do this, later.
By: wakawaka on October 14, 2009
at 2:58 pm
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By: live radio on November 15, 2009
at 11:10 am