Posted: Friday, January 19th, 2007 at 7:47 pm. Filed in New Features, Upgrade, Uploads, Video, WordPress.com.
Tags: Audio
Songs and Movies on WordPress.com
A much requested feature has been the ability to host and play multimedia content on WordPress.com and I’m happy to say that with the space upgrade, you can now upload and play mp3 files. You can also upload ogg, wav, m4a, mov, wmv, avi, and mpg files too. We haven’t got a movie player working just yet and simply embedding a large movie file would be unfair to people with slower connections but we’re working on one.
There is a file size limit of 25MB on uploaded files. I hope that will satisfy most needs but if you need to upload larger files, please send us feedback.
Even if you haven’t got the space upgrade, everyone can use the new audio tag to play mp3 files from anywhere on the Internet. Copy the following into a blog post to see it in action:
[audio http://wpcom.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/mattmullenweg-interview.mp3]
which will produce the following player:
The recording is 5 minutes from Tom Raftery’s interview with Matt and myself. Check out his Podleaders site for the full interview!
The mp3 player comes from the great Audio Player WordPress plugin which in turn started out as the emff player.
January 19th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
Excellent! I look forward to using this feature, great work guys!
January 19th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Awesome! Now there’s a reason to upgrade for extra space.
January 19th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Hey!! it is great!!
Thank you very much!
January 19th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
This will be really helpful for that project I’ve been working on (yes Matt I will be talking to you about it soon). Audio content will be great additions, especially for those that plan on trying their hand at podcasting.
January 19th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Awesome!! Thanks so much for this functionality, guys!!!
January 19th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
If anyone is interested in buying the space upgrade, I’m hosting a contest on my blog where the prize is WordPress.com upgrade credits.
More information here:
http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/01/18/win-wordpresscom-credits-engtech-contest-1/
January 19th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
This is so cool. Thanks wordpress.
January 19th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Awsome. This really gives a lot of freedom to Audio producers, and the layout pwns.
January 19th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Great! Thanks so much
January 19th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
AWESOME!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!
Keep up the awesome work y’all!!!
January 19th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
WOW! That’s really cool…! Nice interview too…
January 19th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
Great news! But what about the same player but for a text widget?
January 19th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
Very cool.
This I think would work very well with e-mails.
They go together – email addresses and audio.
The connection is obvious to me.
Zale
January 19th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Hi
Esta guapo!
It’s good!
January 19th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
this is surely a great addition to wp capability, thanks guys!
January 19th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
That’s awesome!
January 19th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
cool
January 19th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Ok.. awesome. Thanks again. Gumbo but I’m glad I chose here to register for a blog.
January 19th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Thank you! I’ve been waiting for this! I have a separate space for hosting my audio files but having the player really makes for a nice feature
January 19th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Great news!!!
January 19th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
!! So and very awesome !!
January 19th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
sweet! nice feature
January 19th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Awesome! Thanks!
January 19th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
thats really cool….
thanks
January 19th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
cooooooool!!! thanks!
January 19th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Awesome! Keep the updates coming!
January 19th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Hooray! I KNEW it was a good idea to switch over to wordpress this year!
thanks!
January 19th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
“Space upgrade” meaning we have more space? Or is it just your servers. Hmm, probably just your servers. Anyway… this too looks like fun.
January 19th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Thanks for the new gift…
January 19th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Nice News and Nice Improvement!!! Very Good! Thanks a lot!
January 19th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Great feature! You’ve recently come up with amazing ideas!
January 19th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
SUGOI!! awesome addition! keep it up, guys!
January 19th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
yay! yay! yay!
January 19th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Wowowee!
So great job! this is just what I need, what I was just thinking off last night.
thanks much!
January 19th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
oh…i forgot to ask: is it possible to add an mp3 player as a sidebar widget?? thanks.
January 19th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
That’s the best offer you could give to us who upgraded from Blogger.
I’ve been missing my songs. Thanks a lot.
January 19th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
does this means I could post my own mp3? And if yes, how?
Sorry I am not too good at this yet.
Lazo
January 19th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
That’s excellent!
You guys are incredibly dedicated to your WordPress members!
Thank you very much, once again.
January 19th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Fantastic! Great work guys. Thanks a lot!
January 19th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Great work, I appreciate all your effort.
January 19th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
I really appreciate this upgrade! This will make my blogging even better. Looking forward to 2007 as you keep rolling out these improvements. Fantastic work guys!
January 19th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
great!!
January 19th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
thank you so much …. this feature is really cool !!!!!!!!!
January 19th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Another key feature added, again. You guys are too good.
January 19th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
Excellent Feature, the best so far (at least for me). Thanks so very much been waiting for this.
January 19th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
It just keeps getting better… thanks for continuing to make me feel SO much cooler than those Other “Bloggers.”
January 19th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
koooooooooooooooooooooool
thanx guys
January 19th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
The Audioplayer is a great extension, also the new ability to embed DailyMotion-Videos – thanks for that!!
January 19th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
i put in my blog some special thing that you can do with this and box.net
look here: http://deambulando.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/test/
January 19th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
ok, that’s hot!
thank you.
January 19th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
Thank-you for this enhancement!
January 19th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
I’ve been waiting to see something like this for a long time. How cool!
January 19th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
January 19th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
That’s so good. The mp3 feature is fantastic too. I will certainly be making use of this feature when I can. You guys do a great job. Thanks!
January 19th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Very cool
January 19th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
Awesome! Thanks alot guys!
January 19th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
I’m getting ready to podcast…
January 19th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
looks perfect – however, does anyone know any way to upload mp3’s/m4a’s, besides uploading it in a site where you have to download it?
January 19th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
That’s real umconditional love to us bloggers.
Tanks thankas thanks
January 20th, 2007 at 12:27 am
As someone who’s really not tech savvy, can you please provide step by step procedure? I have all the files uploaded on another website. So, how do I link them to WordPress audio player?
January 20th, 2007 at 12:48 am
This is great. Now, how do we access it and how high is the upgrade fee? I am interested, just a little confused about the process.
Thank you.
January 20th, 2007 at 12:55 am
I’m going to try this right now.
January 20th, 2007 at 12:55 am
I cannot use .mid
what happened
January 20th, 2007 at 1:31 am
Very good feature!!! Thank You!!
January 20th, 2007 at 1:38 am
MP3!!Whee!! Very cool. Thanks!
January 20th, 2007 at 1:51 am
Works so far, and it makes my 24-7 Spyz post much more elegant.
Great Job.
January 20th, 2007 at 1:53 am
this is amazing! I’ve been looking for something like this and – hey! – here it is!
thx!
January 20th, 2007 at 1:57 am
TOTALLY cool, thanks so much! I have a podcast and I love wordpress and finally they can get together! I tried your code and it works perfectly.
January 20th, 2007 at 2:06 am
Awesome guys…keep working and bringing this features and on my end I will try and make sure I get all my friends to switch to WP from blogger..
Just one more request – can we please have the ability to alter the css….by just copy/paste from 3rd parties. You guys can provide the list of approved websites like you do with hosting services.
January 20th, 2007 at 2:12 am
you…guys…so…friggin’…ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK!
January 20th, 2007 at 2:46 am
once again, you come through for us! cheers!
January 20th, 2007 at 3:29 am
love you guys!!
January 20th, 2007 at 4:09 am
Linking to a file hosted elsewhere (such as fileden.com) gives me this error – “Error opening file”. It doesn’t play the file. Howcome?
January 20th, 2007 at 4:13 am
Great, thank you
January 20th, 2007 at 4:14 am
Uploading an audio file (mp3) to WordPress gives me this message: “File type does not meet security guidelines. Try another.”
January 20th, 2007 at 4:22 am
Thank you so much. It’s working and I love it! Great job WordPress people!
January 20th, 2007 at 4:26 am
You guys are so generous and brilliant – thanks!!
January 20th, 2007 at 4:50 am
Thank you for always coming up with upgrades for all WP users! You guys are great and using WP is such a fantastic experience!
January 20th, 2007 at 5:05 am
That great :d
January 20th, 2007 at 5:06 am
This is great, but… where do we upload the files? I tried to upload a song thru the New Post page, but it didn’t work. Any ideas???
January 20th, 2007 at 5:09 am
Incredible. Thanks a Ton..
January 20th, 2007 at 5:20 am
What about Real player files ??? is it possible to embed them yet ??
January 20th, 2007 at 5:40 am
I appreciate everything you are doing
January 20th, 2007 at 5:51 am
^^ i was hoping this specific plugin would come about here. i always loved the sliding part of it.
now its almost impossible to leave wordpress…(or not come here, for that matter). 
I’s say keep the files small for now actually…to discourage other activities. lol.
looking forward to how the movie player will look.
January 20th, 2007 at 5:53 am
You could use the Anarchy Media Player (already a WordPress plugin). It simply translates any link to a media file into a Flash player for that file. The nice thing is that the regular HTML link will be what shows up in the RSS feed.
Anarchy Media Player: http://an-archos.com/anarchy-media-player
January 20th, 2007 at 6:14 am
Rad information
much appreciated.
check it!
http://mbcpoetry.wordpress.com
January 20th, 2007 at 6:43 am
wow
excellent
January 20th, 2007 at 6:59 am
You guys outdid yourselves with this one… it’s gonna get a lot of use over on my blog. I can’t wait to update tomorrow.
January 20th, 2007 at 7:16 am
Tx. Wonderful Feature that! A bit bandwidth-hogging but albeit very useful.
January 20th, 2007 at 8:01 am
Music, videos, wow, what’s next…
January 20th, 2007 at 8:06 am
Uhmmm…okay. So the ability to upload said file extensions are only available to WP.com members who paid for the space upgrade yea?
January 20th, 2007 at 8:37 am
WoW
verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry
goood
good
my
god
January 20th, 2007 at 9:16 am
hohoyea…
thank you
terima kasih
xie xie
muchos gracias
January 20th, 2007 at 9:18 am
A great update — thanks! I’ll keep the bandwidth/download timing in mind, and am waiting patiently for the video player. This just keeps getting better!
January 20th, 2007 at 9:49 am
I love this very very much!
January 20th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Excellent addition, and timely as well. I’ve been experimenting with the Podbean.com (free) site for my WordPress/audio (podcast/streaming) options regarding my Poetry blog… I think WordPress have kept me here! Well done…