playing songs in html using hyperlink

Question

this is the code i m using to play songs

<a href="http://southgreenvillecoc1.org/BeEncouragedByWhatYouKnow4-25-2010am.wma" 
    style=" text-decoration:none; color:#404040;" target="_blank">
        “Be Encouraged by What You Know”</a>

what do i need to do to play the song??? the link gets redirected to a different server....anything I need to embed??

Answer 1

You could use a Flash-based MP3 player instead of WMA. The big advantage is that they work across browsers (of course, obviously, they need Flash installed).

Links to good players:

• Building a simple mp3 music player

• embeddable flash based mp3 player

note that you'll need permission from the copyright holders / producers / authors to embed music like this.

Answer 2

There are various ways of embedding a WMA file. Here is a link explaining how to do so: http://www.mediacollege.com/video/format/windows-media/streaming/embed.html

The example below shows the code for embedding a Windows Media file. Note that it uses two tags: and . This is to enable maximum browser compatibility.You will need to set the file name (and other attributes if required) for both tags. Use true or false for the tag, 1 or 0 for the tag.