How can I upload MY OWN MP3s to my Blogger Blog?

July 10, 2009 9:18 AM

How can I upload MY OWN MP3s to my Blogger Blog? I want to be able to put my own MP3 into a music player that will play when people go to my blog. Anyone know of a place I can store my music and then use a player to play it online?
posted by paulyballs to computers & internet (7 comments total)

No but why not use something like an embedded Grooveshark player?
posted by superfurry at 9:34 AM on July 10

Entertonement is kind of like YouTube for sound files. You can upload mp3s and embed the player elsewhere.
posted by bluefly at 9:48 AM on July 10

I'm pretty sure you can upload music and then embed it elsewhere with drop.io.
posted by chorltonmeateater at 10:56 AM on July 10

There are a lot of free services. You could dig around a search like this. A few I looked at that seemed basically legit are MP3Tunes Music Locker, GarageBand, and ZeBOX. I'm pretty sure they all provide embeddable files in addition to free storage. Garage Band (no relation to the Apple product, which it preceded) has been around for a long time (in internet years) now.

I believe if you look into embeddable players you can separate the storage and playback issues, I think they will suck the file from wherever and play it back.

I have a techie friend who hosts my stuff and provides links to embeddable files in a system he's coded himself so I haven't actually tried these, other friends have and they seem to work okay, actually I'm not sure I know anyone who's tried MP3Tunes, it just kept coming up when I looked into it.

There are a bunch of similar questions if you dig around in this search result.

I've pondered why nothing has quite risen to the top for this like Flikr or YouTube. I think it boils down to the fact that creating and sharing your own music is not nearly as commonplace as it is with photographs or videos. Creating and sharing photos is something virtually everyone does, and people who just want to dick around recording themselves have jumped straight to video. Professionals or aspiring professionals are a lot more likely to set up their own serving and delivery one way or another. And the conventional perspective on music sharing is so fixated on illegal distribution a la Napster (does that reference call me out as old yet?) that there is probably some intrinsic legal hassle in being in the business of providing free music hosting. But who knows, really, the bottom line is there is nothing of the Flikr or YouTube level out there just for audio.

If you want to research it further you might search from the angle of podcasting since I think this is attracting more of the general DIY non-professional interest.
posted by nanojath at 12:15 PM on July 10

Here is the player Mathowie uses for Music, incidentally
posted by nanojath at 12:23 PM on July 10

(I also believe that beyond the erstwhile large community base, providing some kind of, albeit crappy, functionality for this that non-technical artist types could manage to negotiate, was one of the significant reasons the horrible MySpace became such a locus for bands. Nobody has done a great job of being a big, visible, accessible service for doing this. Okay I'll shut up now).
posted by nanojath at 12:26 PM on July 10

you might also try jamglue, which has worked for me in this way previously.
posted by garfy3 at 3:24 PM on July 10