This tip is based around a neat little javascript available on the del.icio.us website. You can see it in action at http://del.icio.us/help/playtagger
OK, first, make a page in your site for music, call it Music for the sake of this discussion.
Type out a list of the songs you want to play, then use inspector to make each one a "Link to File” and link them to the corresponding mp3 files. Then, publish.
Open the file Music.html with a text editor and inset this code anywhere on the page:
< script type=" text/javascript " src=" http://del.icio.us/js/playtagger " >< /script >
(remove the spaces inside each set of quotation marks and inside each bracket - I had to put them there to prevent my MassReplaceIt script from replacing this code!)
Here is an example: Feels Like Home
As you can (hopefully) see, this little one line script puts a little blue "play" button beside each mp3 link. Visitors can click play to listen, or right click on the link to download.
Here are some other resources for implementing mp3 players on your site, however they are all much harder to implement than playtagger:
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•Others available at http://www.widgetbox.com - very easy to implement using my Basic html editing instructions
Remember, if you make a change to a page like this post-publishing, and later re-publish, you have to make the html changes again! Set up a Find/Replace command in MassReplaceIt and you can do this very quickly.
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