Add audio files to wordpress for users to download

But again, we wrote this article for MP3 files, and this plugin supports that on all browsers. The wording on the plugins detail page might be confusing, but if you look carefully, there is a semi colon there that separates OGG, WAV — not supported. Just one problem, when I update it URL link appears in the post with no player?

How can I fix this? Is there any audio player that can stream music on mobile platform? I wanted a way to avoid using SoundCloud and their fees! This plugin will embed the HTML audio player, with a flash backup for any mp3 url it finds in your post. This way you can store your audio anywhere.

Tim actually this is the same plugin discussed in the article above. No doubt its a great plugin. The public dropbox idea is cool.

So basically you can just upload an audio file mp3 or ogg in Dropbox public folder. Get the link of the file from drop box and just paste it in posts.

Does this work well on mobile? I can imagine that it would be hard to click the buttons on an iPhone. Thanks for choosing to leave a comment.

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Let's have a personal and meaningful conversation. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Don't subscribe All Replies to my comments Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting. A mini player is displayed for the audio file. Note that the player looks the same for all three methods. Storing them on another server will take the load off your web hosting, saving you storage space, system resources and bandwidth.

In that case, use the same audio shortcode, but with the correct URL for the audio file. The audio file can be looped or autoplayed by adding some options to the code see the Audio Shortcode page on WordPress. To change the color of the media player, you need to use custom CSS like this:. Alternatively, if additional functionality or customizing the appearance of the media player is important to you, check out the plugins below.

Do you have more than one audio file to share? Support for playlists is also build right into WordPress. That option is only available if there are audio files in the library.

SoundCloud is a popular service created specifically for sharing music online. You can use SoundCloud to host the audio you embed in your website. Click on Embed at the top, and select the options you like. Other audio library sites, including Audiomack provide a similar embeddable players. This audio player is much more compact than the default.

We would not normally recommend hosting audio or video on your site and instead embed it from another service but if you do plan to upload the files to your site you would want to optimize them for reduced file size.

The above screenshots of the wordpress are very old. Can you please guide how to add playlist and also guide, how to allow users to select their own playlist in the wordpress?

As of WordPress 5. Correct, at the moment there is not a playlist block with the block editor, we will be sure to take a look for what we can update with for other options. I am able to insert an audio file into a post using your above method. It is in a Wav format.

However, the audio file will not play in preview. Do I have to actually publish the post for the audio to play? Also can i make it play automatically whenever someone visits the site? Can you tell me why this is? Hey, there! Instead the link just becomes downloadable. Great tutorial. The files are compatible as they are MP3, and they worked back when I started up my website. Now there is a 2MB limit. Any ideas? All songs are longer than 2MB.

It will work in a post, but not as this suggests in a media library. I have not tried a widget playlist as I thought it would do the same. Have tried from both URL and selecting files, but as stated the limit prevents me from adding anything. You can increase the maximum file upload limit in WordPress. I need to add a playlist to my website. I am a DJ and need to have brides and friends access playlist and put songs and artists as well as be able to add MP3 files on the list if needed.

I need it to be specifically accessible to each party separately. I am not sure which plug in is best. I use WordPress regularly for my website. Can you advise? What size should the photo be set to so you can see it with correct aspect ratio? I have a blog with a considerable number of visitors and would like to make available an audio version of the posts, that is, all the posts would be reproduced, also, in audio.

My question is whether this could be characterized in duplicate content for Google. Thank you for your response. I host a weekly radio show. Is there an easier less time consuming way to do this?

My radio shows are on my hosting site in mp3 format. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!! I use Google sheets to write out my playlist for a given show and then use the online tool tableizer to convert the text to table.

Then I take that code and paste it to my WordPress page. I go through a lot of steps and would love to simplify this process. The instructions mentioned above will help you create a playlist in WordPress itself. You can also check out these audio player plugins for WordPress to make things more simpler. I have the Maxwell template. Does this template allow for this function? Thanks for any help! Any idea on what could cause music to play when clicked on the download link instead of downloading?

But, how do i make it downloadable to the public instead of streaming? This tutorial was awesome. The mp3 file works great on my post page.

It does nothing when clicking the start button, any suggestions? Hello, can I display the music with a different appearance? Bigger buttons to manage the songs.

Another music theme. A couple of music files not accessed by many users at once will be fine. However, if you are getting many visitors and have multiple music files, then you will need to upgrade your hosting to managed WordPress hosting. Is it possible to embed an audioboo link in the free version of wordpress? This is for a not for profit organisation. Thanks — is it possible to add video files to a free version of WordPress?

Using the theme Twenty Thirteen. Not an audiobook — although that sounds cool!!! Thanks, Jill. It says WordPress can do it itself, so I added what it said where it said and the following happened. Now I get this error when trying to do anything on my site. Please see our guide on how to fix syntax error in WordPress.