Add Audio to Your Web Page / Blog (free and easy)

Adding audio to your website or blog post isn’t always as simple as it sounds. I put together a quick tutorial using my favorite little plug ‘n’ play flash embed code for adding a nice looking audio to player to a web page or blog post.
Here is an example of the player:

Instructions:

1. Upload the music to your server in MP3 format. If the MP3 file exists on a server somewhere else you just need to grab the URL of that file (but remember if the owners of the server change the location of that file your embedded music will no longer work).

2. Copy the URL, it will look something like this

3. Copy the code below and save it somewhere on your computer so you have easy access to it

4. Where you see MP3_FILE_URL in the code above replace that with your URL, so your code would now look something like this

5. Now paste the result into your blog post or web page and you will get a nice looking flash player for your audio file.

Reddit Conversation re: Performing Rights Organizations

There’s a very funny and very informative conversation going on regarding performing rights organizations like BMI, ASCAP and in this case PRS going after people singing to themselves at work (?!?!?).

Check it out if you have a moment, it’s pretty enlightening;
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This comes as ASCAP loses their battle to charge mobile phone users every time their phone rings calling their ringtones a “public performance”.
Judge: No Royalties for Music Industry Each Time a Ringtone Plays

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Top 10 Selling Tracks on Musicloops.com for September

Here are the top-ten selling royalty free music tracks from www.musicloops.com for September 2009.
There’s some pretty cool stuff here:

1 Supercritical_Supercilious by Michele Vanni



2 HighLights by Dan Phillipson



3 Hope For More by Dan Phillipson

4 Live Wire by Bjorn Lynne

5 Lift Me Up by Bjorn Lynne

6 Fashion Groove by Michael Cymbalista

7 Les Pieds by Felipe Vassão

8 We Are Loud by PIR

9 Mataleon by Roberto Feltracco

10 Starting Lineup by Mark Petrie

Music and Sound Effects for Halloween

Halloween Music and Sound Effects
Here’s a quick list of our scariest audio resources for any of those last minute Halloween type projects you might be working on.

Happy Halloween!

Mystery & Suspense
Mysterious pads and voices, exotic percussion and instruments fill this royalty free music collection called Mystery and Suspense.

Check out ‘I’m Watching You’ for a subtly suspenseful background track or ‘Unclear’ for mysterious underscore using harp and strange swelling pads.

Horror!
A royalty free collection of horror background music, horror hits and scary sound effects.

Use this horror background music library, halloween sound effects and scary Sounds to make your website, film, video or Halloween party a big, scary sounding event.

Scary Sound Effects
Alien Monsters breathing, groaning and sneering plus creaky doors and recordings of ghosty ectoplasm (these are really hard to find let alone record)

This collection of 93 high quality horror sounds effects includes monsters, bats, creaks, heartbeats, soundscapes and screams.

260 Horror Music Soundtracks
Download individual music tracks from our Horror and Suspense genre on www.musicloops.com. There’s a huge variety of scary music here.
Human Sound Effects
Screams, grunts, coughs, sneezes, eating, chomping, breathing, vomiting, kissing, it’s all here for you to download and add to your projects.

An incredible collection of 445 human sound effects for you to use in your music, films, TV, video, websites or just about anything you can think of.

Horror Sound Effects
We have a huge selection of individual, professionally recorded horror sound effects available on our sound-effect.com website including;
Horror Accents
Aliens
Horror Ambience
Body Fall
Body Hits
Bone Breaks
Dinosaurs
Dragons
Ghosts
Lasers
Scary Machines
Monsters
Horror Production Elements
Robots
Horror Swells

Download 9 Public Domain John Philip Sousa Music Tracks

johnphilipsousaPartners In Rhyme is offering this collection of 9 tracks composed by the famous John Philip Sousa. These tracks were recorded by the US Army Band and are all available in the public domain to download and duplicate.
If you need more royalty free classical music please visit our classical music website at Royalty Classical Music to download and license classical music recorded by a real symphony orchestra.

Washington Post March: John Philip Sousa
to download right-click (control-click on a mac) on the link above and choose ‘save target as’ from the menu that pops up. Listen to the preview below.

The Gladiator: John Philip Sousa
to download right-click (control-click on a mac) on the link above and choose ‘save target as’ from the menu that pops up. Listen to the preview below.

Stars and Stripes Forever: John Philip Sousa
to download right-click (control-click on a mac) on the link above and choose ‘save target as’ from the menu that pops up. Listen to the preview below.

Jack Tar March: John Philip Sousa
to download right-click (control-click on a mac) on the link above and choose ‘save target as’ from the menu that pops up. Listen to the preview below.

Semper Fidelis: John Philip Sousa
to download right-click (control-click on a mac) on the link above and choose ‘save target as’ from the menu that pops up. Listen to the preview below.

Hands Across The Sea: John Philip Sousa
to download right-click (control-click on a mac) on the link above and choose ‘save target as’ from the menu that pops up. Listen to the preview below.

Adjutant’s Call Washington Post: John Philip Sousa
to download right-click (control-click on a mac) on the link above and choose ‘save target as’ from the menu that pops up. Listen to the preview below.

Pride of the Wolverines: John Philip Sousa
to download right-click (control-click on a mac) on the link above and choose ‘save target as’ from the menu that pops up. Listen to the preview below.

Honors March: John Philip Sousa
to download right-click (control-click on a mac) on the link above and choose ‘save target as’ from the menu that pops up. Listen to the preview below.

We also have a huge collection of some of the most famous classical music pieces ever recorded available on the Partners In Rhyme site at Apollo Symphony Orchestra: Greatest Hits.