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Will I get in trouble for posting mp3s to my blog?

hagelslaag — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:33:22 -0800

i am (surprise surprise) into blogs. and before i was into blogs, i was into music. now i like to post mp3s to my blog. is it a bad idea to label which song/artist it is -- as in, are there really crazy music coppers who will show up on my doorstep to arrest me? my blog's host is tumblr, which makes it easy to share an mp3 a day. should i just forgo labelling which songs i post? or is it pointless to even worry about this at all? i have no idea how intense lawyers are these days about persuing folks who share tunes online, and i don't want to get sued just 'cause i want to spread my love for joe meek.

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

paulyballs — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:18:38 -0800

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?

Hey, mp3 bloggers, what do you wish you'd known when you started out?

mds35 — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:04:26 -0800

Hey, mp3 bloggers, what do you wish you'd known when you started out? I'm close to launching an mp3 blog. What pitfalls have you encountered? What mistakes have you made along the way? What unexepected successes have you had? What do you wish you'd known before launching?

I'm looking for anecdotal advice of the technical, legal, and monetary varieties.

My blog will focus on obscure-ish music. I'm using WordPress on my own domain, hosted at Dreamhost.

Help me find more great Chinese music!

jasminerain — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:07:18 -0800

I love mp3 blogs (like Motel de Moka and Chromewaves). I also like listening to Chinese music, but find it hard to find new, good songs. Are there any mp3 blogs for Chinese music? Sites in Chinese are fine, although the less crowded the page, the better (I read too slowly in Chinese to do well otherwise). I tend to like less pop-ish music, although a healthy mix of different styles would be welcome. Any reliable non-mp3-blog sites for finding Chinese songs would be welcome too.

I'd really search for this myself if I was good enough at Chinese. I generally use gougou or baidu if I know what I'm looking for, but I'm more looking for something that would help me explore different artists/songs.

Thanks in advance!

I want to insert an mp3 file into my blog.

Ahuva — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:46:15 -0800

I'd like to add an Mp3 file to my blogger blog. How do I do it? I started with a .wma file, and I figured out how to convert that to an mp3. Ok, step on accomplished! I also found the html coding to insert the mp3, but obviously I have to have the mp3 loaded to some website first so I can use the location to insert the link. Is that making sense? Is there a place I could put the Mp3 file so that it's "out there" on the internets, and then I can code it into the blog?

Building a listening area on a blog post

jbickers — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:37:30 -0800

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?

How can I subscribe to an MP3 blog as if it was a podcast?

unformatt — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:23:17 -0800

I'm in search of an application that can subscribe to mp3 blogs via rss (or even better html scrape). Any suggestions? I recently discovered the wonderful program Songbird. It's focused around finding new music from mp3 blogs and subscribing to them so that it [attempts to] downloads new tracks that are posted. I don't believe it relies on rss at all, just html scraping. The program is great in theory, but at this point its a bit immature and has some nasty bugs.

Now I'm hooked on the mp3 blogs for getting fresh music. Essentially what I'm looking for acts exactly like a podcast utility. So I tried some podcast syncing apps (like Juice and iTunes) and these don't do the job since an rss feed with mp3 links in the body is not the same as a rss podcast. So basically, I'm looking for a utility that will auto-download new posts from mp3 blogs that I subscribe too. Maybe I could mash together a few open source utils, or maybe a Python script will do the trick. Any suggestions before I go down the home-made road?

how to promote my mp3 blog?

deafweatherman — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:09:02 -0800

Best ways to promote an MP3 blog? It seemed easy to promote a normal blog, I'd just try to get my posts linked to from other, more successful, blogs and watch my hits go up. But with my newest foray into MP3 blogging, it doesn't seem to work the same way. Or does it? There are endless amounts of MP3 blogs and i'm just modestly trying to stand out from the bunch. So my question is, how can I actively promote my MP3 blog?

Country Music mp3 blogs

Dallasfilm — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:52:46 -0800

I've been getting back into mp3 blogs and have found ones for rock, jazz, electronica, even exotica. But try as I might, I can't find any for country! Is my Google-fu just rusty or are there not any? Can any fine Meta-readers point me in the right direction? All recommendations appreciated. Thanks!

classical music mp3 blog?

mwhybark — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 20:05:24 -0800

Classical music mp3 blogs? I hated, but miss, the musty comparative-recording fests that helped drive classical music off the American air. Despite this, I have found that I do have a real love for classical music. Are there any classical-music mp3 blogs that will slacken my jones and educate me without inducing snoring? If not, why not? I am particularly looking at the fetching and acerbic naxosaxur.

I'm trying to rework my (largely) notional record label website into more of a free frequently updating mp3 blog thing.

Swampjazz! — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 14:45:36 -0800

I'm trying to rework my (largely) notional record label website into more of a free frequently updating mp3 blog thing. I already have hosting and a site w/existing architecture, so I don't really want/need to do a blogspot/blogger etc. thing. Mostly I just want to change it to a scrolling blog format where I can easily upload new tunes as I finish them, and perhaps art/photos as well, with an easily accessible mp3-only archive too. I am competent w/photoshop and have a good eye for design as well as some very basic HTML skills, but I tried to get this going myself with "Wordpress" the other day and thoroughly blew my mind. I would prefer not to pay the $70+ for movable type, nor do I think I could get it going.

I guess my primary questions would be: a) Can I do this myself, if so how? (Ideally looking to stay cost-free or very close) b) If not, any of you guys/gals in the Chicago area have web design recommendations/skills to offer? Unfortunately, it would be a low budget affair at best, but I'm not really looking for anything terribly complicated here, and I would also be more than willing to offer booze, food, good company, and other (non-scandalous) alternate compensation as well. But feel free to tell me to stick it right up my pooper if doing this right would require some legitimate expense, though. Thanks!