Posts Tagged ‘music widget’

WebsiteMusicPlayer — Secure Transaction widget for Artists

December 27th, 2009

WebsiteMusicPlayer is an embeddable Flash music player widget that allows artists to securely sell their music. There are feature like encrypted download links that can be set to allowone download or a limited number of downloads. Also available are metrics that allow the artist to easily see how many items they have sold.
Transactions are done through PayPal in order to offer an easily recognizable standard that most users will feel comfortable with.

WebsiteMusicPlayer is not a free service. They make their money via monthly or yearly subscriptions. There is no “per purchase” fee.

How does it work?

At any time while listening to your music, the listener can click each checkbox each one of your songs to select each song that they want to buy.

Next they click the ‘Click Here To Order’ (or your own custom text) button that is prominently displayed on the bottom of your player and an order summary page will open in a new window.

On this new page they click the ‘Proceed To Checkout’ button and will be brought to a payment screen where they can either pay you by credit card or use their existing Paypal® funds. This money is instantly deposited into your Paypal® account.

After successful payment, the customer is forwarded to a download page that contains only the songs that they’ve paid for. These protected download links are also emailed to the customer.

The customer is only allowed to download each song a set number of times (determined by you in your settings), after which the download links expire and delete themselves to prevent them from being shared.

Widget customization options:

A lot of thought went into making the color of your player as easy as possible to customize. It’s very simple to make it so the player color matches any website you want it to appear on.

In your account there’s an area where you can create, save, edit and delete custom player color schemes so that multiple color schemes are available to fit each website you embed the player in.

Each time you add the player to a different website it can have a unique color scheme.

You can set the color for the main parts of the player to any color you want. Easily select the color from a color picker interface or enter the html color value if you know it.

You can also edit the order button text at the bottom of the player in addition to the optional music licensing button that is provided by LicenseQuote.com .

http://www.websitemusicplayer.com/index.php

SoundClick.com offers Indie music widgets

December 19th, 2009

SoundClick_LogoSo you blog about music and you’re fed up with the record labels for restricting the ability to stream music to the player of your choice.

Might I suggest looking at Independent artists to fill your needs?

SoundClick.com is a website that allows artists to promote and sell their music on the Internet. They bill themselves as “The #1 Artist Music Community”. I don’t know about #1…but they do have a fair bit of traffic. One of the tools that SoundClick offers artists in the promotion of there wares, is of course, a widget. In this case, many widgets.

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    Music Players
    Store Widgets
    Chart Widgets
    Banners

…of course banners are not widgets per se, but they are simple embeddables that help to promote your music.

What SoundClick says:

SoundClick, established in 1997, is an originator of the social media format. SoundClick continues to be the leading free music community featuring signed and unsigned bands plus state of the art social media tools.
SoundClick offers free member profile pages, mp3 downloads, streaming audio and video, music charts, custom radio stations, a proprietary music store, message boards, lyrics and music e-cards. SoundClick also offers users the ability to promote their favorite music with viral widgets.
With 3.4 million members and 70+ million monthly pageviews, SoundClick is the ideal destination for original music fans and marketers who want to engage them creatively.

Is it difficult?
You can find artists from all genres of music with some tracks for sale and others, FREE to download. In order to find an artist’s widgets, go to SoundClick.com, scroll down to “Music Charts and Genres” pick your favorite genre, find an artist you like. Go to their SoundClick page and on the left hand side in the “Navigation” pane, click “Widgets and Banners”. Now choose your widget. Very easy!

Here’s artist Ben J Hayes:

All About Jazz–15 Jazz widgets

December 6th, 2009

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AllAboutJazz.com appears to be the de facto source for all news about Jazz music.

With Jazz news, CD reviews, new album release information, artist interviews, concert information, photos and more, you will be able to find just about anything Jazz related.

All About Jazz has created and released 15 different widgets related to Jazz music. All widgets are embeddable in your websites to share with your readers.

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This is an example of “The Daily Download” widget that allows your readers to view a new artist, see album information and download a single Jazz .mp3 everyday.

Other widgets include:
(These widgets are JavaScript.) visit AllAboutJazz.com/widgets

    Articles
    Birthdays
    CD Reviews
    Contest Giveaways
    Interviews
    Jazz Video Guy Presents
    Listening Party / Album Stream
    Musician of the Day
    News
    Photo of the Day
    Jazz Session Podcasts
    Quote of the Day
    This Day in Jazz History
    Upcoming Releases

Some widget details:
Most of the widgets are a simple “copy and paste” of some code to place the widget into your site. The “get code” link associated with the “MP3 Download of the Day” widget includes a well rounded tutorial on how to customize the size and appearance of your widget using some basic CSS. It does not explain the intricacies of CSS. For that they suggest you search the Internet for CSS related information.
Almost all of these widgets contain added CSS that you can easily edit to alter the appearance of the widget to conform to your website scheme.

These widgets are a great addition to any Jazz music related blog or website. They are FREE to use and FREE to enjoy.

AllAboutJazz.com/widgets

Pandora And Web Radio Widgets Safe For The Future

July 12th, 2009

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Remember when Pandora almost had to shut down?. Then it didn’t but still had to live with a future full of uncertainty?. Many music and radio widgets didn’t were so lucky and started closing in the last 6 months because of the shaky ground they faced with the high fees and shaky legal status.

Now a deal for those broadcasting has been struck and it could mean the way for some recently closed music widgets to reappear or simply that the ones left standing will be able to continue and advance, instead of facing doom and gloom.

Pandora (And Other Internet Radio) Has Officially Been Saved via Techcrunch

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