Building a listening area on a blog post

December 6, 2007 1:37 PM

Need an easy-to-use, visually elegant mp3 jukebox thingie for a website

Got a large collection of mp3 files that I'd like to allow people to listen to from a single blog post (Wordpress). So I'm looking for a nice jukebox-ish app that I can embed, allows users to scroll through the choices, click on the one they want to listen to, it starts playing in-line.

I'm not having any luck finding a WP plugin. And I don't want to just list a bunch of links to the mp3 files. Any great, elegant, quick way to make a "listening area" on a single blog post?

posted by jbickers to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

You can use playlists with this Flash MP3 player.
posted by null terminated at 2:02 PM on December 6, 2007

Response by poster: NT, unless I'm missing something, that plug-in shows one track at a time. I need to be able to display all of the mp3s on a single page; clicking on one of them starts it playing.
posted by jbickers at 2:37 PM on December 6, 2007

you could create a media master account and set them up in a play list. Then you can embed that play list in a post. it seems like that would be perfect.
posted by DJWeezy at 2:39 PM on December 6, 2007

Best answer: NT, unless I'm missing something, that plug-in shows one track at a time. I need to be able to display all of the mp3s on a single page; clicking on one of them starts it playing.

Wijering's player, (which I can personally testify is awesome), allows you to create multimedia playlists- well his media player does anyway: http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_Media_Player

Failing that, nothing stopping you from embedding as many instances of the mp3 player as you want on one page.
posted by drjimmy11 at 2:42 PM on December 6, 2007 [2 favorites]

Someone I know uses this site to generate pretty much what you're looking for. Maybe less pretty, but it has the basics.
posted by cmgonzalez at 2:52 PM on December 6, 2007

NT, unless I'm missing something, that plug-in shows one track at a time. I need to be able to display all of the mp3s on a single page; clicking on one of them starts it playing.

Well, since the site I linked has an example of the player showing multiple tracks on the front page and is identical to the site drjimmy linked to, I'd say yes, you are missing something.
posted by null terminated at 5:54 PM on December 7, 2007