For the NoiseBloggers: How to Add Audio/Video
Posted on August 12th, 2009 at 4:17 pm by Steve

I’ve installed the Audio and Video plugins. You can add audio to your post with a simple tag, shown below. NOTE: In order to show the tag, I’ve added a space between the brackets and the enclosed text. You MUST OMIT the space between the bracket and the enclosed text if you want this to automagically work!

[ audio:http://web.path.to/yourSong/file.mp3 ]

The player will read the ID3 tags automagically. Or, you can specify the information like this:

[ audio:http://web.path.to/yourSong/file.mp3%7Ctitles=Title Of The Song%7Cartists=The Best Band Ever ]

You can specify multiple songs/titles/artists, too:

[ audio:http://web.path.to/yourSong/file.mp3, http://web.path.to/yourSong/anotherFile.mp3, http://web.path.to/yourSong/aThirdFile.mp3%7Ctitles=Title Of The Song, Second Song, Third Song Rules%7Cartists=The Best Band Ever, A Mediocre Band, Some Guy ]

For video, you do something similar:

[ flvplayer http://acme.com/video.flv 400 300 ]

Those last 2 numbers are width and height, and they are optional. I recommend specifying them as shown, however, since our blog’s center column is 400 pixels wide.

If you have trouble uploading your audio or video files (PHP currently imposes a 2 MB limit on uploads), contact me for FTP/SCP access.