{"id":2510,"date":"2008-12-23T13:27:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T18:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2008-12-23T14:51:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T19:51:22","slug":"placeholder-post-pre-playlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/placeholder-post-pre-playlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Placeholder Post: Pre-Playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least one thing has surprised me about Running After My Hat<\/em> so far: the extent to which I’m blogging about and incorporating music in my posts.<\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n

Anyway, if you’ve visited (almost?) any of the posts in the Music category<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

For instance, here’s the one from last Friday’s post, “A Gift of Frozen Words<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

[audio:somechildrenseehim_georgewinston.mp3|titles=’Some Children See Him’|artists=George Winston]<\/div>\n

(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<\/a>, if you’re interested, although here<\/a> there’s a better set of usage examples and other notes.)<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Back soon. Hopefully with a playlist. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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