Audio On Blogs

I was browsing through my Kinja tonite and i came across this post from Burned By The Sun.

It sounded worth reading so i clicked on it. I didn't get a web page, i got my quicktime player and heard a great tune from the Velvet Underground called I Found A Reason pour out of my laptop. What a wonderful experience. And i am a total sucker for the harmonica.

So now i want to do that on my blog. Why link to music when i can just host it and let people listen?

So i uploaded "Coma Girl", the first song on Joe Strummer's last album.

Cool. I am going to do this from now on.

Comments

[Adam]

Hey Fred,

I agree that this is great. Just found Webjay.org last night. It links to playlists of public domain MP3s that open up in your media player.

Enjoy,
adam

[Giordano]

Disclaimer: I work with the music industry, but don't approve the idiocy that rules it.
That said, don't you think that posting MP3s on a high profile blog could lead to unwanted interest from the RIIA? Surely they don't care about a few files distributed, but it could set a precedent, and they proved really close-minded on this kind of stuff.
Wouldn't be better (and cooler) to stream the song while you're reading the post? :)

Regards,
Giordano

[EsmeV]

Great idea! Now I want to go out and buy the CD. I think the music industry would be thrilled to have this kind of free advertising.

[Giordano Contestabile]

Sure, they should but, as the P2P debacle taught us, they surely aren't.
If they keep their usual timeline, they will probably start to "get" blogs in a couple of years. :)

[Rob]

Fred:

Great idea. Another way to achieve the same...

Add the sound clips (mp3, wav etc) to your blog via Flash. Cross-platform, no QT player and accessible to 90%-ish of visitors.

Try: Swish - http://swishzone.com for an inexpensive way to convert your clips to Flash - and add player buttons.

And, to appease the RIAA-types. Edit your music clip (sample it) with the free editor, Audacity.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net

Fun stuff.