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:
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 19, 2007
- New Features, Upgrade, Uploads, Video, WordPress.com
WordPress.com News 
Excellent! I look forward to using this feature, great work guys!
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Awesome! Now there’s a reason to upgrade for extra space.
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Hey!! it is great!! 😀
Thank you very much!
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This will be really helpful for that project I’ve been working on (yes Matt I will be talking to you about it soon). Audio content will be great additions, especially for those that plan on trying their hand at podcasting.
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Awesome!! Thanks so much for this functionality, guys!!!
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If anyone is interested in buying the space upgrade, I’m hosting a contest on my blog where the prize is WordPress.com upgrade credits.
More information here:
http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/01/18/win-wordpresscom-credits-engtech-contest-1/
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This is so cool. Thanks wordpress.
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Awsome. This really gives a lot of freedom to Audio producers, and the layout pwns.
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Great! Thanks so much 😉
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AWESOME!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!
Keep up the awesome work y’all!!!
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WOW! That’s really cool…! Nice interview too… 😉
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Great news! But what about the same player but for a text widget?
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Very cool.
This I think would work very well with e-mails.
They go together – email addresses and audio.
The connection is obvious to me.
Zale
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Hi
Esta guapo!
It’s good!
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this is surely a great addition to wp capability, thanks guys!
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That’s awesome! 🙂
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cool
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Ok.. awesome. Thanks again. Gumbo but I’m glad I chose here to register for a blog.
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Thank you! I’ve been waiting for this! I have a separate space for hosting my audio files but having the player really makes for a nice feature 🙂
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Great news!!!
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!! So and very awesome !!
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sweet! nice feature
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Awesome! Thanks!
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thats really cool….
thanks 🙂
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cooooooool!!! thanks!
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Awesome! Keep the updates coming!
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Hooray! I KNEW it was a good idea to switch over to wordpress this year!
thanks!
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“Space upgrade” meaning we have more space? Or is it just your servers. Hmm, probably just your servers. Anyway… this too looks like fun.
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Thanks for the new gift…
🙂
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Nice News and Nice Improvement!!! Very Good! Thanks a lot! 😀
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Great feature! You’ve recently come up with amazing ideas!
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SUGOI!! awesome addition! keep it up, guys!
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yay! yay! yay!
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Wowowee!
So great job! this is just what I need, what I was just thinking off last night.
thanks much!
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oh…i forgot to ask: is it possible to add an mp3 player as a sidebar widget?? thanks.
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That’s the best offer you could give to us who upgraded from Blogger.
I’ve been missing my songs. Thanks a lot.
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does this means I could post my own mp3? And if yes, how?
Sorry I am not too good at this yet.
Lazo
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That’s excellent!
You guys are incredibly dedicated to your WordPress members!
Thank you very much, once again.
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Fantastic! Great work guys. Thanks a lot!
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Great work, I appreciate all your effort.
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I really appreciate this upgrade! This will make my blogging even better. Looking forward to 2007 as you keep rolling out these improvements. Fantastic work guys!
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great!!
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thank you so much …. this feature is really cool !!!!!!!!!
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Another key feature added, again. You guys are too good.
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Excellent Feature, the best so far (at least for me). Thanks so very much been waiting for this.
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It just keeps getting better… thanks for continuing to make me feel SO much cooler than those Other “Bloggers.”
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koooooooooooooooooooooool
thanx guys
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The Audioplayer is a great extension, also the new ability to embed DailyMotion-Videos – thanks for that!!
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i put in my blog some special thing that you can do with this and box.net
look here: http://deambulando.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/test/
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ok, that’s hot! 😀
thank you.
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Thank-you for this enhancement!
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I’ve been waiting to see something like this for a long time. How cool!
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😀
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That’s so good. The mp3 feature is fantastic too. I will certainly be making use of this feature when I can. You guys do a great job. Thanks!
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Very cool
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Awesome! Thanks alot guys!
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I’m getting ready to podcast…
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looks perfect – however, does anyone know any way to upload mp3’s/m4a’s, besides uploading it in a site where you have to download it?
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That’s real umconditional love to us bloggers.
Tanks thankas thanks
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As someone who’s really not tech savvy, can you please provide step by step procedure? I have all the files uploaded on another website. So, how do I link them to WordPress audio player?
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This is great. Now, how do we access it and how high is the upgrade fee? I am interested, just a little confused about the process.
Thank you.
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I’m going to try this right now.
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I cannot use .mid
what happened
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Very good feature!!! Thank You!!
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MP3!!Whee!! Very cool. Thanks!
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Works so far, and it makes my 24-7 Spyz post much more elegant. 🙂
Great Job. 😀
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this is amazing! I’ve been looking for something like this and – hey! – here it is!
thx!
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TOTALLY cool, thanks so much! I have a podcast and I love wordpress and finally they can get together! I tried your code and it works perfectly.
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Awesome guys…keep working and bringing this features and on my end I will try and make sure I get all my friends to switch to WP from blogger.. 🙂
Just one more request – can we please have the ability to alter the css….by just copy/paste from 3rd parties. You guys can provide the list of approved websites like you do with hosting services.
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you…guys…so…friggin’…ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK!
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once again, you come through for us! cheers!
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love you guys!!
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Linking to a file hosted elsewhere (such as fileden.com) gives me this error – “Error opening file”. It doesn’t play the file. Howcome?
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Great, thank you
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Uploading an audio file (mp3) to WordPress gives me this message: “File type does not meet security guidelines. Try another.”
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Thank you so much. It’s working and I love it! Great job WordPress people!
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You guys are so generous and brilliant – thanks!! 🙂
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Thank you for always coming up with upgrades for all WP users! You guys are great and using WP is such a fantastic experience!
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That great :d
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This is great, but… where do we upload the files? I tried to upload a song thru the New Post page, but it didn’t work. Any ideas???
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Incredible. Thanks a Ton..
🙂
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What about Real player files ??? is it possible to embed them yet ??
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I appreciate everything you are doing 😉
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^^ i was hoping this specific plugin would come about here. i always loved the sliding part of it. 😀 now its almost impossible to leave wordpress…(or not come here, for that matter). 😀
I’s say keep the files small for now actually…to discourage other activities. lol.
looking forward to how the movie player will look. 🙂
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You could use the Anarchy Media Player (already a WordPress plugin). It simply translates any link to a media file into a Flash player for that file. The nice thing is that the regular HTML link will be what shows up in the RSS feed.
Anarchy Media Player: http://an-archos.com/anarchy-media-player
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Rad information
much appreciated.
check it!
http://mbcpoetry.wordpress.com
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wow
excellent
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You guys outdid yourselves with this one… it’s gonna get a lot of use over on my blog. I can’t wait to update tomorrow.
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Tx. Wonderful Feature that! A bit bandwidth-hogging but albeit very useful.
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Music, videos, wow, what’s next…
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Uhmmm…okay. So the ability to upload said file extensions are only available to WP.com members who paid for the space upgrade yea?
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WoW
verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry
goood
good
my
god
😉
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hohoyea…
thank you
terima kasih
xie xie
muchos gracias
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A great update — thanks! I’ll keep the bandwidth/download timing in mind, and am waiting patiently for the video player. This just keeps getting better!
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I love this very very much!
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Excellent addition, and timely as well. I’ve been experimenting with the Podbean.com (free) site for my WordPress/audio (podcast/streaming) options regarding my Poetry blog… I think WordPress have kept me here! Well done…
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