A nod of the head to Amit at Digital Inspiration for pointing me in the right direction for the Yahoo Media Player with his post “How to embed mp3 audio files in web pages”.

There are two versions to the Yahoo Media Player – a javascript based version and a Flash based version.

For the javascript version, first you need to link to the file. For example:

<a href=”http://techwhimsy.com/31_Ghosts_IV.mp3″>31_Ghosts_IV</a> which looks like:

31_Ghosts_IV

Then, you insert the javascript for the media player somewhere on the page:



<script src="http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/js" type="text/javascript"></script>

After that, a little ‘play’ button should appear next to your media file link. Click the button and the player launches.

This method has occasionally been reported to not work on self-hosted WordPress blogs like this one. To get the Yahoo Media Player to work in WordPress if the above method hasn’t worked, try inserting the script tag in your header file.

You will also notice that off to the left hand side is the miniaturised version of the player which you can also launch just by clicking on it.

Using Yahoo Media Flash Player

Yahoo also offer a Flash player with a handy Yahoo flash player configurator at next.yahoo. You plug in the url of the page or file, choose some options such as colour, size, autoplay or rounded corners and it will generate the Flash embed code for you. My configured player looks like this: