Music & Video On Your Vampirefreaks Page

First up, billy. Its this tiny cute little player from sheepproductions:



The people who designed this one did an awesome job and made it really easy to use. All you need to do is upload your songs to a free hosting site of your choice (see the bit below on [ hosting ] for help with that) and then stick the song paths in the little boxes they provide, and press "generate code" and it spits out for you exactly what you need to paste into your profile. Like it says on the site, you must use mp3 files, and they must be uploaded- files saved on your computer won't work!

Next, MyFlashFetish. This isnt just one player, it's a whole collection set out and explained so well that I don't think theres much need for me to add anything else! They guide you through changing the colors of the player and uploading your songs right there on the site.

Finally, the famous Jeroenwijering player. This one is a lot more complicated to implement and comes in the form of a zip file, which you have to download, unzip, alter and then upload again complete with your songs. It is a rather cool and highly customizable player though, in its original skin it looks like this:

If you're not already familiar with the concept of zip files, they're basically compressed packages of files you can download and then unzip with a program like [ Winzip ] or [ WinRAR ].

Once you've done that, you should see a bunch of files like this (the icons might vary depending on what programs you have installed on your computer)



First take the one called "mp3player.xml" and open it in a plain text editor like notepad.

It should contain something that looks pretty much like this:


It may all be on the same line when you get it, and you can space it out by hitting return- you won't damage it.

Now all you have to do is replace the example song names with some of your own. To do that, first you have to chose some songs and upload them. It's essential that your files are in MP3 format, and you don't have any spaces in your filenames (if you do have spaces rename them). Then upload them to any free host you like. You might want to use [ Files.bz ] or [ MyFileStash.com ] or you could find your own on [ Google ].

Once you're done, you need to write down/remember the song urls, and go back to the XML file to fill them in on there. You should use full paths here (ie including the http://www. bit) even though the example doesn't, because we're going to need a slightly different code than they use to make this work on VF. You can add in more lines too, if you want more songs. For example, my finished code might look a bit like:



When you've filled in as many songs as you'd like, save the XML file. Now all you need to do, is take this XML file, and the one named mp3player.swf from the zip package you downloaded, and upload them to a free host too, just like you uploaded your music. Again you're going to need the urls or paths to these files, but this time they go into this code:



And that code, should be copied and pasted into your VF profile wherever you want the player to be. To change the look of the player, see the [ flash player skins ] section below.