I was sent a link to a Thom Yorke article on ateaseweb.com today that was showcasing two newly surfaced Thom Yorke tracks. What struck me first, however, wasn’t the songs – it was the players used for the two songs. They used YouTube!
After some closer inspection at the code (see below), I am thoroughly impressed. Not only is it easy, you have the benefit of having audio that will play on mobile devices too!
Check out a demo:
How to implement?
1) Upload a HQ version of your song as a YouTube video.
2) Grab the media id (It looks something like this: hvOquG3o80Q)
3) plug it into the code below (replace with YOUR-MEDIA-ID) and place on your website!
Here’s the code:
<iframe width="580" height="23" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YOUR-MEDIA-ID?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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Tanvi Patel is a music licensing executive and President/CEO of Crucial Music, a one-stop agency for licensing independent music to films, TV shows, and commercials. Crucial has placed songs in Academy Award-winning films like Brokeback Mountain and A Beautiful Mind and Emmy-winning TV shows like Six Feet Under, The Office, Vampire Diaries and Boardwalk Empire. She has also worked on music in national commercials for Toyota, DKNY Pure, Royal Caribbean and Jaguar.
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