Add Music to Your Blog

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As I was roaming on the blogosphere last night, I came to a blog with a cool feature. The blog started playing a nice jazz music clip as I loaded the page. The music was played by a tiny flash player provided by a company called sonific (http://sonific.com). Sonific has a library of songs, though I think that the library is not varied enough, yet. First you need to sign up for a free account, then you can start using the service. This is how it works. - Sonific is based on the concept of SongSpots (yet another buzz word). To keep things simple, you can think of a SongSpot as a single song. - You can search for songs in the library. You can search for an artist, a genre, or some keywords. - Once you get the search results, you can play the songs from your browser by clicking on the speaker button. - If you like a given song, then you can add it to your blog, this way: 1- Activate the SongSpot, by clicking the dot button of this song. 2- You will be taken to a page where you can configure your songSpot. Here, you will specify the blogging software you are using (blogger, wordpress...), the look of the player as it will appear on your blog (dimensions, vertical/horizontal...), the sound volume, whether the song should start playing automatically or not and whether the song should play in an endless loop, or not. 3- Once done with the configuration, Sonific, will provide you with the HTML code that you should add to your blog. Et voilà, the next time you visit your blog, you will be greeted with some nice music.