Magnatune, everywhere!

This post has little to do with Amarok. In fact it is quite blatantly beating my own drum and that of my employer, but I thought it was worth mentioning here anyway as it is something I am quite exited about and something that might be of interest to all you bloggers out there. ( And it will give me an excuse to actually try it out myself )

Now, with that out of the way....

Over the last few days, we have implemented support for embedding every single album at Magnatune into blogs and web pages. On every album page there is now an "Embed this album" link that leads to a page where you can configure a small embedded player and then copy paste a bit of code into your own page. The player comes in two major varieties ( with and without a visible playlist ) and the ability to start playing automatically or require the user to press play ( I much prefer the latter option ). The size of the player can also be configured. Of course, the player plays full versions of each track, only interrupted by a small add nag add at the end of each track.

So, to give you a taste, here is one of my long time favorite albums from Magnatune.com:

( EDIT: Ok, so it seems this blog plays a bit of havoc with the layout.... )
( EDIT 2: The planet does not like the player, so to see it, you will have to go to the actual blog )





I hope people will find this fun and useful, and that we will see these players pop up all over the place.