I’ve been following more and more mp3 blogs lately and really been getting interested in having my own. There are three prominent online music services I use:
A combination of the three services would be perfect. I like Pandora because it discovers new music for me. I like The Hype Machine because I can find music given a band or song title. And I like Blog Remix because it is a really cool app. They all have their drawbacks too, which I won’t go into now, but will “announce” that to further investigate the world of online music, I am creating a new mp3 blog: Mechroboticon. I am interested in good music, obviously, but also the technology that helps the discovery and exchange of good music.
When setting up Mechroboticon I decided to write a super-simple WordPress plugin to wrap the Yahoo! Media Player JS code. I created this because I’m still using the default WP template and didn’t want to have to put the player js in the footer of each template I decide to try out. Making a plugin simplifies an already super simple process.
Get the Yahoo! Media Player WP Plugin
Disclaimer: This plugin isn’t being endorsed by Yahoo!. Even though I am an employee of Yahoo!, I wrote this plugin as just some random guy. Let me know if you have any questions about the plugin.
Awesome. The media player project needed this.
Hey man, this is a really useful plugin! Thanks for making this! The only thing i wish is that it had a bit more flexibility. It would be cool if somehow i could get it to grab its play list from an external page (not the page that is presently being viewed). Is there any way of doing this? Also, it would be really nice to be able to skin it, and alter the search address to not search yahoo, but i guess because you work for yahoo you have ulterior motives on this one.