At least one thing has surprised me about Running After My Hat so far: the extent to which I’m blogging about and incorporating music in my posts.
I mean, it’s not as though I actually know anything about the subject. I’m not a musician or musicologist or, well, much of anything regarding music — except maybe a dilettante fan, skipping from one genre to another…
Anyway, if you’ve visited (almost?) any of the posts in the Music category over there in the left sidebar, you’ve encountered a little gizmo which plays music. It’s got a couple of little VCR-style play/pause buttons, and you can adjust the volume up or down with a little slider (on the left) that looks like the reception-strength bars in a certain company’s cellular-service advertisements.
For instance, here’s the one from last Friday’s post, “A Gift of Frozen Words“:
(For the information of those of you with WordPress-based blogs, for this purpose I use a plugin called, logically enough, the WordPress Audio Player. Find it here, if you’re interested, although here there’s a better set of usage examples and other notes.)
I’ve been meaning to explore using the audio-player thingum to play back an entire playlist, not just a single song. (I have long-term ulterior motives for knowing how to do this.) Christmas music seems an obvious choice for such a playlist, and that’s what I’m experimenting with at the moment.
Back soon. Hopefully with a playlist. :)
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