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Overview
They say it’s better to see something once than hear about it a hundred times. Coding Staff is about to argue this old saying with its DNN mp3 module. The AJAX-based music player will look slick on any website and takes just a few clicks to install and enjoy. 

Adding tracks and images to the player
In the navigation menu go to Host – Host Settings – Advanced Settings – Other Settings and locate “File Upload Extensions” field. Add “mp3” extension to the list. Please, note there should be no blank spaces between the files extensions’ names.

There are two ways you can upload files to the mp3 player module:
a)

• Go to Admin – File manager page located in the navigation menu. Choose the folder you want to upload a file from and click the “Upload” button. 8MB is the maximum file size you can upload using this method.
• Once the file is uploaded, click “Synchronize files” for the module to recognize the uploaded file.

• Go to the page where the Mp3 player is located and click “Manage items”.
• Click “Add new item”.
• Now choose the file you have uploaded with the help of the file manager from the drop down menu. Don’t forget to add a picture file that will represent album graphics and click “Add”.
• The track has been successfully added into the player.

b)   

• Access your DNN portal via FTP and create a folder necessary files will be uploaded to. The FTP client should be used in cases when the file is big.
• The files you want to upload or the folder you need to create in FTP should go to the following path: httpdocs – Portals- 0
• Upload the required files into the created folder.
• Go to Admin – File Manager, choose the folder with the files you want to upload and click “Synchronize folders” and then “Synchronize files”.  Go to the page where the Mp3 player is located and click “Manage items”.
• Click “Add new item”.
• Now choose the file you have uploaded with the help of the file manager from the drop down menu. Don’t forget to add a picture file that will represent album graphics and click “Add”.

• The track has been successfully added into the player.

The tracks you have uploaded either through the portal or FTP can be checked in the playlists the module automatically creates. You may set the tracks order by moving them through the playlist by clicking the up and down arrows as shown on the screenshot.

Adding files in bulk
This feature is used to upload entire albums and present the tracks in playlists.
Click on "Generate from Folder" and select a folder containing the required files. To upload files into the folder use same methods as described above.  Once the tracks are generated from the folder you may edit them and add album graphics to each track.

ID3 Tags
Make sure player displays artists, album and song name correctly. If player doesn't display this information correctly, check if you have proper tags for your mp3 files. You can edit mp3 tags using iTunes or any other desctop mp3 player. Coding Staff DotNetNuke MP3 player uses ID3 tags format in utf-8 encoding. More information on ID3 tags here.