Blogs - Audio Blogs

Many studies have proven that radio is an effective medium for product advertisements. People listen to the radio for entertainment, usually to listen to their favorite music, news or talk show. Because people are familiar with and responsive to this type of advertising message it is only natural to bring it to the Internet.

If you are planning on including audio / music as part of your website or blog you need to keep a couple of things in mind. There are basically 2 ways to offer music to your visitors. Music downloads and streaming audio. Providing music downloads will most likely cause you issues with copyright infringement so be very careful before proceeding.

Many artists, musicians and record companies have lost millions in revenues because of illegal offering of downloads.

Internet music streaming is most definitely the best way to proceed. Music streaming does not allow download of the music files so the copyrights of the artists and record label owners are protected and you stay clear of any liability.

There are several ways to stream audio from your website or blog. You could stream a radio program from your site or blog. There are free affiliate programs available that allow you to stream their radio content from your site.This means that your site will have new audio content every time it is visited. What's even better is that the content is being updated with little or no effort from you. All you need to do is to signup with an Internet radio station and have the link embedded on your blog or website.

Another way is to stream mp3s. You just need to upload your mp3files on a server and add the files links to the pages. When the link is clicked the browser opens a media player window and plays a file. Since the file is in mp3 format it may also be downloaded. Downloading music files without the authorization of the copyright owner is illegal. If you will be using this type of streaming make sure that you have the appropriate permit to do so.

A third way to add audio to you blog or website is to stream music through organizing playlists. Playlists are m3u files which if downloaded will not play music if offline. Using this process is more complex but might be an option to consider.

Here is a short instruction on how to do it.

1. Save your mp3 or wma file on the server. You may skip this step if you know that the file exists on another server and know the link to that file. Make sure that the link has a .mp3 or .wma extension.

2. Open your text editor and type the path to the file. Include the http:// and the file extension. Repeat this step until you have included all the links to the files that you would like to be included in the playlist.

3. Save the playlist with a .m3u extension.

4. Upload the m3u file on the directory where the music files are hosted or to your server.

5. Open your html editor and embed the link to the m3u file. Through this, you can also set if you want to have the playlist to autoplay if someone visits your site of if you want your visitor to control playing the music. You can also set the volume level.

After the code is embedded on the html file the songs in the playlist will be buffered, streamed and played one after another when requested by a visitor. If your playlist has several songs the user can skip forward or go back a song in the playlist using the media player controls.

Doing this setup works for many website owners. Through this you can customize the type of music being played on your site. You can even play recordings related to your product in between songs to boost product awareness.

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