How To Add Music To Your Lens

How do I upload my tracks?
You need to have another server or hosting account to put your music on to. If you already have another web site, then you could upload your files there. Alternatively, you can sign up for a free account with a online file storage service, like Google Docs or Dropbox. See this tutorial on using DropBox to feature music on your lenses.

Can I Create A Playlist?
By default the Media Player will play all the audio files that it finds on the page. You can instead create a playlist file, and upload that to your webserver instead. Then your users will only see 1 playable link on the lens, and this makes it harder to access your MP3 files directly.

Example Playlist thanks for listening!

Can I Include Album Art?
You can set the image which is displayed in the player during a song. To do this, put an img element within the playable link.

How Do I Set The Title Of The Track?
The "title" attribute can be added to the link code to specify the audio file's name:
<a href="artist.mp3" title="Movin' Right Along">a song</a>

How do I make it play just one track?
Unfortunately, the Yahoo! Media Player will play all of the tracks on the page, and there's no way to make it stop after each one. A work around is to use the Page Break module to separate each track on to a separate page, though this might not be suitable for all lenses.

Can I play videos this way too?
Links to Yahoo! Movie pages and to YouTube videos will play now the video.

Example: Tron video