Let’s look now at how to add that cool stretchy player using a WordPress plugin and your own web hosting.
Here is an example of how this player looks and works.
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Like it? Do you want to use it yourself?
OK, here is an 11 minute video showing how I did this, start to finish. It’d take less time if I just DID it and didn’t talk about what I was doing, so it will take you a lot less time to create your own audio players using this plugin.
While our preferred method of adding this audio player is faster and easier, this method offers more options for customizing your player.
Enjoy!
We love it when we get questions and requests, so thanks for asking how to create those cool stretching audio players for your blog.
Here’s an example of what we mean. Just click the play triangle below and watch the player strettccchhh out to play.
Here’s a 6 minute video showing exactly how to add this fun audio player feature to your sites.
This first option we are demonstrating for you is our preferred method, and it is the one we used on this page. It’s using the eZs3 system and Amazon’s S3 hosting. It’s so very simple, and I love having my audios and videos on Amazon’s servers instead of mine.
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Our next blog post will show you how to add a similar stretchy player using a WordPress plugin.
