Introducing…. YT-Audio, the plugin for WordPress to embed the audio from a YouTube video on your blog!

yt-audio-streaming-audio-from-youtube.zip

How does it work?

It’s actually ridiculously simple. All it does is embed YouTube’s regular flash movie player inside two iframes that chop off all but the bottom control bar of the video. Nothing fancy. Just useful.

Instructions

You install it just like any other WordPress plugin. Unzip it into the /wp-content/plugins, directory. Then, in your post, put the text:

ytaudio(2_HXUhShhmY)
Where “2_HXUhShhmY” is the code for the video on YouTube. And you should get something like:

It’s just that simple! I’ve tested this on Firefox, Safari and IE 7. It looks pretty good in all three. Enjoy!

Frequently Asked Questions

The player shows up, but the song won’t play. What’s up?

This will happen if embedding has been disabled for the video you are using. Because the video portion of the player is hidden, so is the message telling you that embedding is disabled. Try to embed the entire video with the full embed code from YouTube before reporting a problem.

Where is the volume control?

When the volume control opens in the YouTube player, it opens over the video portion of the player, which is hidden inside a frame by this plugin, so even if YT-Audio displayed the volume control button, you could not change the volume with it because the popup slider would be hidden. This is unfortunate, but there’s nothing that can be done about it.

I’m getting something in the frame that looks like my blog header. What’s wrong?

This will happen if your plugins directory is not in the default location. You will need to edit the two lines in `ytaudio.php` that contain `wp-content/plugins/yt-audio-streaming-audio-from-youtube` to reflect the actual location of the ytaudio plugin with respect to your blog root.

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