This is a Flash mp3 player by Fabricio Zuardi. If you do not have or cannot install the Flash plug-in, you may try another option listed below.

This link opens a new, small browser window (like a pop-up) before opening the mp3 file. If your web browser is able to open mp3 files and play them itself, it will. Otherwise, it will trigger a download or a prompt for choosing an application to play mp3 files.

This will embed the mp3 inside the song page and, if an appropriate plug-in is installed and configured properly, the song is presented below the artist info with a play button and other plug-in controls. The song will not play automatically, so look for whatever play button your mp3 plug-in provides. Some also have a buffering or load indicator to show how much of the file has been fetched from the server, which is good for smooth play over slow connections even if it's a large song file - just wait for the file to load completely before pressing play. But it also means that you have to leave that song page open while the song plays, and it also will reload the song file every time you visit the page.

This is also the method that is the most problematic, and some web browsers do not support the <EMBED> and <OBJECT> tags at all. The W3C recommended standards state that I must define which multimedia application is required to play an embedded mp3 file - which I will not do. There are many multimedia applications that can play mp3 files and many different web browsers for (most) any kind of computer, but in so many ways that very combination is shoehorned into supporting a conflict of requirements and it just became a big PITA to try to offer an embedded mp3 that is both platform and player neutral, so I ignored the standards and coded a "broken" embed tag. Meh. It works on all my computers and several others I've observed, all with different setups. I've also seen it fail miserably and do nothing but annoy.

There is one more template option in pMachine for post entry presentation. If you know of another method of presenting mp3 files in a web page, tell me about it and I'll see about implementing the option.

As stated above, there are many multimedia applications and plug-ins that support mp3 files. The three most well known are Windows Media Player, Quicktime, and Real Player. There are several others, each with its own nuances and requirements for playing mp3 format on the internet. So I leave it to the listener to choose the best method to play songs in the lair.