Hi All, I have set up my website ( http://www.webhush.com/ ) using the Arthemia Premium Theme. I want to know how to have a small MP3 Player shown on the Bottom Footer in the middle in place of the Existing "Most Commented" place holder. For me personally the "Most Commented" part is not useful and I want to have a Beautiful MP3 Player Plugin there. It should be a player which can pick songs from a Configurable Directory. Does any site exist with such a player on a sidebar or anywhere. Please suggest me ideas. I want the visitor to Enjoy Music while he reads all my articles. Regards, Hemanth
2 things: 1) Since your site in wordpress, it will have to reload the player every time he clicks on a page. This is annoying, and means that unless it's a very repetitive loop (annoying), then the song will need to restart over and over and over again (annoying). Back when Underoath first released their album, their website used to play their single like this, and I was SO ANNOYED by that stupid song that I would cringe and felt like screaming every time somebody would play it on the radio or stereo. This is a great way to make people ABSOLUTELY LOATHE music. 2) Most people don't want to hear music when they go to your page. Chances are they're either listening to music already, or watching a video. And if they're NOT using the sound for something else, that usually means that they're at work or in a situation where they don't want sound. If your player auto-plays, and the controls ARENT the first thing they see on the screen, they will just simply leave your site the moment they notice the music, because they aren't 100% of any other way to stop it for sure. This means a lot of people will leave and avoid your site in the future. So I guess to summarize, the ability to play music on ANY webpage has been around for a decade, and it's been used by amateurs here and there, but unless you're a music company people don't want to hear music when they go to your site - there's a reason not every website has background music.
I suggest you to put a link into the sidebar and when someone click the link to get a pop-up with the player.