Monday, February 18, 2008
Adding music to my blog
It's my day off and it's pooring rain out there, so I decided to goof around on the computer. After a few less than inspired moves on Scrabulous I thought "I could add some music to my blog". It turned out to be more complicated than I had expected. At first I thought the wysiwyg editor would provide an easy way to do it - nope, that only seems to cater to pictures and videos, but not sound files (strange, I wonder why). Then I thought I could just "add an element" in the laout tab ... nope, not an option there either! So I searched google for "blogger mp3 player widget" and found this cool widget on the widgetbox site which I installed at the top of the left column of this blog: Google Audio Widget. In the interests of nostalgia I've customized it to play a track called "Zambo" by a southern African-style marimba band "Nyamamusango", which, as far as I can tell is a legal free download from the music.download.com site. (Perhaps that's a good research topic for a future blog post ... how can one tell if an mp3 file can legally be used on a private blog? I really don't know.)
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