FBML – How to Add a MP3 to a Tab on Facebook Fan Page
Last week I wrote an article how to add a flash or youtube video to a Facebook fan page tab using Static FBML.
Continuing this series, I am going to show how you can add a mp3 music file to your custom fan page tab. This would be a great way to add music for a fan page for musicians.
How to Do It
- You will need to add the Static FBML application and create a custom tab, if you haven’t already done so.
- Locate the music file URL. You need to have the file uploaded to your server in order to create the link to it. For example, the one I am using for testing purposes is located at http://kimwoodbridge.com/We Were Promised Jetpacks_01_It’s Thunder And It’s Lightning.mp3
- The music file must be an mp3. This does not work with .wav files.
- The fbml code used is:
<fb:mp3 src="http://location/name of file.mp3" title="name of song" artist="name of band" album="title of album"/>
- Here are the parts of the code that you need to fill out:
- src= this is the location of the file on your server and the name of the mp3 file
- title= the name of the song
- artist= the name of the band or musician
- album= the name of the album
- My complete code looks like the following:
<fb:mp3 src="http://kimwoodbridge.com/We Were Promised Jetpacks_01_It's Thunder And It's Lightning.mp3" title="It's Thunder And It's Lightning" artist="We Were Promised Jetpacks" album="These Four Walls"/>
I have not figured out a way to have a single instance of the music player rotate through a list of songs and I don’t think it can be done. You can, however, have multiple instances of the code on the page to have a listing of different songs. This works ok – the first player seems to start the song immediately but there was a delay when stopped it and started one of the subsequent songs. Again, I don’t know if that’s a bug with the code or just a Facebook quirk that I experience when testing this.
You can view this on the Video tab on the (Anti) Social Development fan page. I didn’t make a separate tab for it because I’m not a musician and won’t be posting music files. There are three instances of the player all with the same song. Of course, each player can have a different song – I only uploaded one file to my server.
Useful? Yes? No? Is there anything else you would like to learn how to do with FBML?
photo credit: Brenda Anderson
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January 11, 2010 at 2:50 pm
I love how your instructions are always so clear!
vered | blogger for hire´s last blog ..Fat People Not Welcome
January 12, 2010 at 6:57 am
Hi Vered – Thanks! I try to write the instructions the way that I would like them. And I try not to assume anything.
January 11, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Uhm, months ago I remember stumbling upon a facebook app for Fan Page that can create a hidden resource tab/info that’s available only for members. Apparently I can’t find it anymore, do you have any idea of such apps and point me to the right directions?
Thank you..
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January 12, 2010 at 7:03 am
Hi Lex – I am not aware of an application that will do this. If I come across something I will post about it here.