Choosing a WordPress music player plugin can be a total hassle. You have to choose between a Flash, Javascript or HTML5 music player, and each type is not supported by all browsers by default. Luckily, the newer WordPress music player plugins have fallback options to account for this. Still, you have to make sure you have a WordPress music player plugin that can play the music format that you need, is able to be styled to match your site, and has all the features you need.
To save you the stress and hassle, this post contains 15 high quality and versatile WordPress music player plugins that you can download and install and be up and running in a jiffy.
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WordPress Music Player Plugins:
MediaElement.js – HTML5 WordPress Video & Audio Player
MediaElement.js is an HTML5 video and audio player with Flash fallback and captions.
Haiku minimalist audio player
A simple HTML5-based audio player that inserts a text link or graphical player for audio playback.
iSimpleDesign Amazon S3 Music Player Plugin
A plugin that allows you to link to your amazon S3 bucket and sets up a playlist. This plugin will only play .mp3 files please use Lamedrop to convert.
MP3-jPlayer
Add mp3 players to posts, pages, and sidebars. HTML5 / Flash.
Flash MP3 Player
This plugin integrates a powerful music player into WordPress.
MP3 Player Plugin
MP3 player plugin allows you to upload .mp3 files to your wordpress site and embed player.
Flash player widget
Put a simple MP3 FLASH player (Dewplayer) on your WordPress and link MP3 with a “a href” + shortcode.
Audiobar
Audiobar is a stylish audio player bar that continues playing when visitors browse.
Audio Player Widget
Audio Player Widget is a small plugin that provides support for using the Audio-Player plugin in WordPress sidebars.
Yahoo! Media Player
Embeds the Yahoo! Media Player music plugin into your site to play back media links (music and video) and monetize purchases via Amazon.
SSG WordPress Google Audio Player
Simple. Tiny. Google. MP3 Player. Enough said?
WPaudio MP3 Player
Play mp3s and podcasts in posts with the simplest, cleanest, easiest mp3 player. New HTML5 support for iPhone, iPad, Android & mobile browsers.
Audio Link Player
The Audio Link Player adds flash mp3 players to all your mp3 links.
Simple Music
The easy and flexible way to add an MP3 player in your Blog’s sidebar.
WordPress XSPF Player
I just wanted a flash player or alike to be embedded into my pages which reads mp3 files via HTTP anywere on the internet. The XSPF web player does exactly that, and is licensed GPL.
Nice collection of WordPress Music Players.
Nice list, thank you 🙂
may i suggest you one more, Peckplayer: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/peckplayer/
You can change colors and it’s easy to integrate into pages or posts.
I am looking for a mp3 plugin that limits the preview time of the actual file. This will eliminate the need to create a separate 30 second sample file and a folder. Does this plugin exist? Is this even possible in wordpress?
Thanks,
Vinny
These players have one thing in common – they are extremely ugly. Can’t anyone make nice beautiful wordpress mp3 player plugin?