An Ordinary Person

Streaming Music Through WordPress

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)

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