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 20th, 2007 at 10:15 am
woot!
January 20th, 2007 at 10:33 am
Great, keep ‘em coming! Love the new features!
January 20th, 2007 at 10:34 am
2nd Comment… a little later… Sweet, guys, real sweet… just did a test audio, using a link from a file host, where I store stuff for “embedding” to various Sites, inc. mp3 files, with the example Matthew gives on the WordPress Blog, I gave it a go… Wunderbar
… much appreciated… like I said.. Sweet as…
January 20th, 2007 at 11:02 am
Excellent! Great news. Great Job
January 20th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Yay! The best thing ever!
January 20th, 2007 at 11:35 am
There will be necessary to buy more space ?
It finishes this way with the idea of free space?
I love the music and I would have many songs that to unloap, on that to speak, besides of my photos, of cours.
In my opinion finishes this way with the idea of free space.
January 20th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Donncha O Caoimh, hey, is it possible to upload mp3 and ogg files without space upgrade? “File type does not meet security guidelines. Try another.”
January 20th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Thank you again, we all love you guys!
January 20th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Thanks!
January 20th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Perfect, thank you very much!!!!
January 20th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
i tried pasting the code into my own wordpress hosted blog. it didn’t work? is there a different syntax in my case?
January 20th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
you guys rock, keep more stone rolling
thanks
January 20th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Wow.. This is awesome! You people rock
January 20th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Wow! What a sleek and unobtrusive addition. Awesome stuff.
January 20th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
another great addition…
January 20th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
What a great feature! Here’s adding to the long list of reasons why I left my previous blog and joined the community of wordpress.
January 20th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
woww!!!!
thank a lot.
January 20th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
I don’t want anything else…
January 20th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
I just tried the audio tag and it’s awesome! Thanks guys.
January 20th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Thank you for once again providing a cool new feature to enhance everyone’s blogging experience … not only for us, hte authors, but for our readers as well.
Blessings
Mama Kelly
January 20th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
ogg,wav,m4a is not complete, right? I’ve tested on my blog but it doen’t work.
January 20th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
u guys are awesome…thanks i needed this…
January 20th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
wow im so happy finally it featured. Thanks WordPress
January 20th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Awesome feature… Great addition to my heavy metal blog. \m/
January 20th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Cool feature..
lookin out for the videos also..
January 20th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
WOOO! Good Stuff! way to go!
January 20th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
It’s really great! Love it. But it should work on widgets too… like our blog soundtrack, it was cool. I couldn’t make it or is any way to use also on widgets?
January 20th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
love u guys also…made my podcast even better!!! on question, the audio player embeds the mp3 into the RSS?
January 20th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Fabulous news! I’m a language and speech researcher, and it’s been a major setback for me not to be able to include soundfile examples in my posts. (Especially for my work blog.) I’ve been looking into workarounds, but hadn’t yet found a great solution. Now you’ve found it for me. Thanks!
January 20th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
wow!!! I don’t know what else to say
January 20th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
You guys are simply *the* best! Thanks!
January 20th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
So, can you guys please explain to a non-technical type person like myself, how to make this work in my blog? Do I upload mp3 files from my computer through the upload function or what exactly do I do? Sorry to be dense here.
January 20th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
Merci.
January 20th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Hallelujah. (:
This was a major missing feature P:
Great job guys!
January 21st, 2007 at 12:07 am
Excellent. Great work.
January 21st, 2007 at 1:28 am
Fantastic! I’ve been looking for something like this for a while, and SongSpot didn’t have a large enough library to include most things I was looking for. Thanks!
January 21st, 2007 at 1:54 am
A very cool upgrade … I can already tell it works better than Odeo.
I can’t wait for the video player!
January 21st, 2007 at 2:02 am
Okay, a minor grump … and it’s the same problem I’ve had with the Odeo links: no volume control on the widget.
But you’ve still earned a thumbs-up!
January 21st, 2007 at 2:12 am
now dats what im talking about..great work guys
January 21st, 2007 at 3:23 am
have you guys at WordPress got bandwidth to spare? I’ve noticed a little slowdown in the last couple of days since this came onboard. Hope it’s being monitored closely.
Cheers,
ggwfung
(and I do appreciate all the improvements and rollouts that are being made for us guys. Thanks.)
January 21st, 2007 at 4:07 am
SAWEEET!!!! Is this for real? Cause this was like so long-desired on Relic Arts!
January 21st, 2007 at 4:07 am
Yeah, and please bring some more features like this. Please!
January 21st, 2007 at 5:12 am
niiiiice..
January 21st, 2007 at 5:47 am
wow..totally cool..thank you!!
January 21st, 2007 at 5:52 am
This is great! Many many thanks =)
January 21st, 2007 at 7:43 am
great works!!!Awesome………
January 21st, 2007 at 10:07 am
just a word…..Excellentttttttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 21st, 2007 at 11:39 am
Nice one, However pleeeeeeeeease make it available to non-space upgraders PLEASE!!! It works with me embedding an external mp3 too.
January 21st, 2007 at 11:58 am
“You can also upload ogg” – I don’t think so! I’m trying yesterday, but it’s impossible!
January 21st, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Excellent. Thank you.
January 21st, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Thank for your free world effort for users.
January 21st, 2007 at 12:36 pm
This is awsome! I was totally blown away to be able to post background music on my WordPress Blog! Thank you so much for the excellent work.
January 21st, 2007 at 12:43 pm
thnx for this really coooooooooooool feature
January 21st, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Great! Thanks a lot. It is already included it in my blog: http://kosmopolit.wordpress.com/2006/12/15/orson-welles-in-belgium
January 21st, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Always great news WP!
ever
Thanks..
January 21st, 2007 at 3:58 pm
I’ve not need such a function so far, but I’m glad its there for the future – long live WordPress!
January 21st, 2007 at 6:53 pm
This is really great !
But it seems to be working only for the blogs on “yourname.wordpress.com”,
this isn’t working on independant blogs (that are not hosted on /wordpress.com)
Are there any chance that you’ll improve this feature to be able to work on other blogs., or do we need get separate plugins.
Friends please, direct me if there are any such plugins out there.
Thanks much, Keep up the good work !
January 21st, 2007 at 9:59 pm
How do you use this feature?
I copied the link “audio http://wordpress.com/files/2007/01/mattmullenweg-interview.mp3” in to a post and it does not show the player
Do I have to use a htlm tag for the player to show?
Please help
Miguel
January 21st, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Thank you !
Very good feature !
It´s great
January 21st, 2007 at 10:33 pm
January 22nd, 2007 at 12:14 am
This is a completely great news! thank you, guys!
January 22nd, 2007 at 1:05 am
WordPress just keeps getting better and better. I look forward to utilizing all the newest upgrades.
January 22nd, 2007 at 1:39 am
Goog, this is waiting this long…..thanks
January 22nd, 2007 at 1:39 am
Good, this is waiting this long…..thanks
January 22nd, 2007 at 1:44 am
Wow! thanks a bunch guys! I already have it up on my About page: http://celestialvoice.wordpress.com/about/
January 22nd, 2007 at 2:53 am
Woo hoo! I was hoping we would get this when I first saw the Sonific Songspot player..
Thanks for letting us add our own music!
January 22nd, 2007 at 5:03 am
I love you guys!
January 22nd, 2007 at 5:04 am
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January 22nd, 2007 at 7:33 am
Excellent. Thank you.
January 22nd, 2007 at 7:53 am
Ya necesitábamos esta mejora. ¡Gracias!
January 22nd, 2007 at 8:53 am
Another exellent feature. Thanks guys
January 22nd, 2007 at 10:45 am
is it possible to have a widget that will list/play all my uploaded media files? at least my songs?
January 22nd, 2007 at 11:44 am
good good
January 22nd, 2007 at 11:56 am
Thanks for the cool new feature.
January 22nd, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Its so great, really!
January 22nd, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Great stuff!
January 22nd, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Another cool one … tnx.
January 22nd, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Does this mean that we will be able to post podcasts with embedded RSS?
January 22nd, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Muchas Gracias!!
January 22nd, 2007 at 2:30 pm
finally!!!!
Thanks!!
January 22nd, 2007 at 2:36 pm
oh i wish i could put this in a text widget!
thank you for this capability, folks.
January 22nd, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Sexy!!!
January 22nd, 2007 at 3:41 pm
Nice idear !! But where can we hosted our MP3 with this kind of link : http://……song.mp3
I can’t find a website to host my MP3.
If, someone get a link to these sites please mail me !!!!
I’am sorry, for my poor english, i’m leaving in a french country (Réunion Island).
January 22nd, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Yeah Baby, finally – much needed feature. I often have needed to post an audio clip and this will be a great new feature. Many thanks Donncha.
January 22nd, 2007 at 4:08 pm
This is really great.
When you get the video player up and going, will we be able to stream the video file from any place on the web as we can audio?
January 22nd, 2007 at 6:29 pm
I just switched from using Apple’s iWeb, and this was the biggest feature that I was missing from my old blog. I had started using Odeo, but didn’t like having to go through a third party to share my audio posts. Thank you! You have made this transition a very pleasant switch!
January 22nd, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Thanks guy’s, now it’s up to me to use it thanks again.
January 23rd, 2007 at 1:19 am
Hey, that’s showing good leadership.
Rock on!
http://lastfreevoice.wordpress.com
January 23rd, 2007 at 4:50 am
You guys just killed every other blog service out there.
I mean, you already did, but now you’re really killin em’
January 23rd, 2007 at 6:09 am
It is very good. Thank you very much and… Thank you for everything here.
