An online music player embedded in websites and blogs is used by most of us routinely, for various reasons. Features like drawing up a custom playlist makes online music players a hit on the web. Here are some such players that you can embed in your web page or website. For one reason or another, a lot of web designers use music players on their website. Online music players offer you flexibility and creativity in building your own Jukebox on your web spaces the way you want. You can add an unlimited number of songs and arrange them the way you wish by the album title, artistâs name or year. Itâs totally up to you! Everything from a simple music system to an iPod can be totally placed on your website or blog.
1. Dewplayer
Perhaps the the easiest way to put mp3 audio files on your web pages! This flash animation is very light and easy to use. The website also offers instruction for using HTML and XHTML
Instructions:
1 Download the all-in-one zip.
2 Upload the .swf player file you want to use on your website.
3 Copy-paste and configure the HTML code with the right MP3 filepath.
2. MP3 Player
It’s open source, free and customizable.
The site offers 5 types of players:
Mini: This player has the smallest size, in terms of the number of kb.
Normal: This is the first player of the series.
Maxi: This is the most complete player in terms of functionalities. This is the only player that will be improved with new features.
Multi: A theme to be used to play multiple tracks.
JS: This player is developed with the goal to be be integrated with Javascript. The player has no graphical interface, but it can be completely controlled by code.
Embedding player for low speed connections can be done by encoding mp3 with 44KHz.
3. Macromedia Flash MP3 Music Player
Knowledge of Macromedia Flash is not necessary and the Flash program is not required. The music player is updated via a dynamic control file. This flash music player only supports MP3 music loops (must have sample rate of 44.1khz).
Also the you can customize the following:
- Change the movie background color
- Change the player background color
- Define the number of MP3’s that play up to 25
- Define your MP3 song titles up to 25
- Choose between autostart or manual start
- Define the scrolling titles color
- Define the song title window color
- Define the outer and inner panel color
- Define the color of the dots surrounding the player
- Define the button color
- Define track time elapsed color
4. FLAMPlayer
This MP3 player is built in Flash. So, it can be embedded in an HTML page. It works using PHP and MySQL. The database stores the authors and tracks characteristics, the PHP scripts manage the communication between the Flash player and the MySQL database.
FLAM Player includes a back-end allowing the fast addition of tracks, the edition of authors or tracks characteristics, the creation of playlists and the simple integration of the player in a page.
5. Silverlight Audio Player
Silverlight Audio Player is a well known and simple audio player that can be used for playing back one or more audio files. It currently supports two styles of player. The first plays a single file and is based on the visual design of the Word Press audio player. The second allows you to play multiple files.
6. Flash MP3 Player
Features include:
- easy installation
- standard player controls
- forms playlist automatically
- customization of design
- fully re-sizable
7. Flowplayer
The audio plugin lets you stream MP3 data into Flowplayer and provides setup for audio streaming. Starting from 3.2.1 (requires flowplayer version 3.2.3), you can use the secure streaming plugin to securely stream your audio content from http servers.
8. Zanorg Player
The player is useful for embedding a single mp3 file on your website or blog.
Installation:
– Place the downloaded file “zplayer.swf” on your website, where you want to put
it in your page.
– To insert the Zanorg player in your page, use the following code,
or create your custom code with the generator.
– Modify “file.mp3” with the url of your mp3 file
(ex : http://www.yourdomain.com/file.mp3 or /music/music1.mp3 )
9. XSPF Web Player
Features:
- Works under Linux and Windows (and probably on every PC with a flash-compatible browser).
- Plays local and remote MP3 music (HTTP).
- Autostart playing and auto-repeat if desired.
- Song and Categories database managed from the Options menu.
- 3 player modes selectables.
- Track order defined by user.
- Inline (on the fly) parameter customization
10. Wimpy MP3 Player
A highly customizable and skin-able media player, which displays and plays collections of audio and/ or video. It is perfect for musicians, bands and anyone that needs to control the look and feel of their player to fit with their site design.
