Comments on: Embedding .mp3 audio files into Google Sites

By: Kirk

Kirk — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:29:44 +0000

Thank you for the suggestion and the very informative page.

A download link is a practical idea that I will include on my page as a backup, but if i just tell people to download from a link, why bother even having an embedded player? You know what I mean?

I guess it’s a naive question, I’ve been looking into this and realizing how hard it is to get a good cross-platform player, but it would be nice if almost everyone who visited my site could use an embedded player. Also, it might save me the trouble of redoing the site when HTML5 becomes de facto standard and/or flash becomes obsolete.

By: Martin Hawksey

Martin Hawksey — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 12:42:21 +0000

Include link to source file to let users download and listen using default player on their device

By: Kirk

Kirk — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 09:33:44 +0000

Flash players won’t work with iOS devices. Any alternatives?
Thank you.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:50:45 +0000

> You can get the same result by using the “Embed Music”
> Google Gadget – available through the Insert > More
> Gadgets option > Public location —

Thanks for that Greg, but neither of the “Embed Music” gadgets I see (from Mori) work here. The first offers a download (!) and the second gives a blank box. See here https://sites.google.com/site/cjjtestsite/Home .

By: Martin Hawksey

Martin Hawksey — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:18:20 +0000

Thanks for the updated info Greg

By: Greg M

Greg M — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:58:29 +0000

As of December 2012, the Google Audio player has been “deprecated” (no longer supported and no longer available.)

You can get the same result by using the “Embed Music” Google Gadget – available through the Insert > More Gadgets option > Public location —

And like the Google Audio Player, you can change the name of the gadget in the Sites web page. The “Embed Music” gadget will play any mp3. (However, the sound file needs to have an address on the web — the easiest way to do this is to add the MP3 to the Sites web page as a file, then right click the Download button on the uploaded MP3 file and select “copy link address” – then paste the copied URL into the Embed Music gadget. Edit the pasted url – removing text all the way back to the .mp3 suffix. This is the sound file’s web address.)

This was working as of 12/11/12!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:43:45 +0000

Hey I have installed the google audio player and uploaded the mp3 to my site but I am having trouble direction the gadget there.

TO the people above- Are you sure you are looking for Google sites in the “public” search opposed to the “Featured”? The Featured is the default.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 03:21:47 +0000

Google Audio Player still doesn’t work even with the URL. I’ve been trying to figure this out for days. Any alternatives that you know of for playing audio from a google site?

By: Martin Hawksey

Martin Hawksey — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:43:29 +0000

I guess it was inevitable that Google would do a spring clean. Try insert > more gadgets > add gadget by url and paste http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/108621208120033273647/google-audio_player.xml (the player that used to appear in the search results)

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:33:07 +0000

Hi, I was researching how to add audio for one of my students in my grad program. However, when I followed your steps, there was no google audio player available. Could they have take it down? This is disappointing if so. Any other ideas?

Thanks.