If you have an entertainment blog, you’ll probably find this extremely useful and make people spend more time on your blog than they normally do. Adding a streaming radio station blasting some really good music is enough to keep anyone coming back to that blog of yours. If you blog about celebrities, showbiz and the entertainment industry generally, one of the best ways to keep your visitors entertained is to add a couple of radio stations. Wait a minute, who doesn’t like music? I’ll be explaining how to add a streaming radio station to your blogger or wordpress blog and I’ll suggest you get one or two streaming links if you’re not satisfied with the radio stations on this post.
If you’re on a PC with a fairly good connection, you should be able to listen to BBC Radio 1Xtra, a station playing just hip hop music.
How To Add This Radio Station to your Blog
Whether you’re on WordPress or Blogger, you need to create a new page. Be sure you switch to HTML editor before proceeding, OK? Then paste the code below directly on the page and publish!
<object id="MediaPlayer1" width="400" height="300" classid="clsid:6bf52a52-394a-11d3-b153-00c04f79faa6" codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701"><param name="FileName" value="" /><param name="animationatStart" value="true" /><param name="transparentatStart" value="true" /><param name="autoStart" value="true" /><param name="showControls" value="true" /><param name="fullScreen" value="false" /><param name="url" value="http://radiojoyalukkas.com/rdja.asx" /><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/" /><param name="autostart" value="1" /><param name="showcontrols" value="1" /><embed id="MediaPlayer1" width="400" height="300" type="application/x-mplayer2" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r1x.asx" FileName="" animationatStart="true" transparentatStart="true" autoStart="true" showControls="true" fullScreen="false" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/" autostart="1" showcontrols="1" /></object>
</div><div align="left"><a href="http://www.doncaprio.com/2012/02/adding-a-streaming-radio-station-to-your-blog-blogger-wordpress.html" target="_blank"><small>Radio widget for your blog</small></a>
Here are a few things you can change in the code to suite your need:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r1x.asx – This is the link to the radio stream. You can change this to a working radio station but be sure the station you’re using is available 24/7. You can as well embed a video or audio file by simply changing the URL. Also, there are other parameters that can be configured. You can change autoStart="true" to false. You can as well change the size.
bosS….how about adding video to it?
Love this doncaprio. Good share.
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You should give a demo page for your visitor to understand your work.
You should be able to see a demo unless you’re on a mobile phone or your browser doesn’t have the plugin to display the embedded radio station.
thanks for this tutorial, am going to go figure it out and see if ti will work, wil report back shortly.
That is a great tip particularly to those new to the blogosphere. Short but very accurate info… Many thanks for sharing this one. A must read post!
This will surely make one’s blog more entertaining and interactive. I have been to sites with music and I love it. Some have even choices on what music to play or DAB radio stations to choose.
OMG! It’s working. I finally have a radio on my blog.
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Thanks Don Caprio for your tutorial. I was searching for how to embed a radio on my website and and you made my day. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing. Btw, how to put radio streaming widget at side bar?
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You can simply add it as a text widget. But I suggest you change the width to fit the sidebar
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hello don, is there any option for wordpress users?
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will addding this streaming radio station to my blog add any ranking or google love to my blog?
waiting for your reply
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Not at all, only to entertain your visitors.
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After searching for the perfect radio stations in Florida, my friend introduced me to Palm Beach Broadcasting. This broadcasting networking has all the music to suit your every mood. From Country to Hip Hop, R&B, Adult Contemporary, Rock; you name the song and they have it. Kicking off the Rap Hip Hop/R&B vibes on X102.3 is the famous DJ Severe. He keeps the vibes pumping and the adrenaline flowing. Tune in or stream live at http://www.thex1023.com. To all the Adult Contemporary lovers, you can lock on to Sunny 107.9 or 97.9 WRMF for your yesterday and today music selection or stream live at http://www.sunny1079.com , http://www.wrmf.com. 103.1 WIRK plays your all time favorite Country music. Stream live at http://www.wirk.com
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A great article. I had been looking for hours for this solution. Thank you very much for this information.
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very cool widget thanks for sharing
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Hello Don,
How do you get links to radio streams. Example the …/r1x.asx link you provided for BBC? Where can I get links to radio stations in my country. Is there a directory of some sort or something? I will be glad for your help.
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Hi Fred,
For this, you may need to use a software called URL Snooper. Hope it helps.
Thanks for the code,
I use the above code, its working fine, but my website is taking ages to get loaded. its happening with other shoutcast plugins also which I tried earlier … any idea why its happening?
boss I have one Mobile blogger how to play radio station to my mobile site without plugin, and how to play in background?
please help me
Play a radio station in the background on a mobile blog? I’m afraid I can’t help on that.
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Very good information. Thank !
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Hello
I receive this error mesage “Error parsing XML, line 3, column 8: The markup in the document following the root element must be well-formed”
What can i do?
Are you adding it inside your template or as a new blog post?