TESTING OUT A NEW MEDIA PLAYER posted by O.W.

Folks will notice I've added a new media player to the site - I haven't gotten rid of the old way, you can still "click" and download songs - but instead, I added the Yahoo Media Player on top of the existing system, just to see how it plays out. The advantage to this is that it allows a continuous play of all the songs on the homepage via the player (though it won't do much for those who'd rather download).

So far, I find it unobtrusive and it adds a degree of usability that hasn't existed on the site before.

For other bloggers: you should give this a try...it's very easy to install and Yahoo makes no money off it. All it requires is a single line of code that you can put in your template or each blog post:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/js"></script>

Note: this won't work with blogs that link to songs stored on a hosting service such as divshare or sendspace, etc. But if you link to songs hosted at a conventional server, you won't need to do anything else except add that line of script above.