Using Soundcloud in WordPress
If you’re a Soundcloud user and want to play your tracks in your WordPress.com blog, here’s how to do it: Just copy the link location from the “download” button on your soundcloud player and paste it into your WordPress visual editor (not the code editor). You need to add the usual WP code to it so you get, eg:
[a u d i o http://soundcloud.com/band/song/download]
Obviously, you’ll need no gaps in the word audio!
So it should look like this:
Publish your WP post and then view it. The standard WP flash player appears (the one with the speaker and the play icon).
You’d think that you would need a .mp3 extension, but you don’t! Also, you don’t get a Soundcloud player in your blog. Have a look here to see it in action properly:
http://mistrust.wordpress.com/music/
It works!
Thanks to Soundcloud.com for hosting my tracks.
This entry was posted on February 12, 2009 at 5:43 pm and is filed under download, social networking, soundcloud, tracks with tags audio, mp3, music, player, soundcloud, wordpress. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
February 13, 2009 at 10:05 am
Hi, thanks for writing about this. However there is a problem with this method, in that if somebody uploads a format different than mp3 or a very high-resolution file, it will be too big and/or incompatible with the wordpress player.
it’s also against our community guidelines to embed without linking back to us, http://soundcloud.com/community-guidelines
we’re working with wordpress.com to make a solution for embedding our widget.
February 13, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Eric, if you’re reading this, I’ve corrected the post with a link to Soundcloud and added it to my favourites. Soundcloud really is the best!
March 17, 2009 at 10:04 pm
ok, I will follow you to “Twitter”. why not!