If Hypster‘s songs menu is just not enough and you cannot find the tracks you are looking for, then you should try Billy Music Player for Tumblr. This music widget is as tiny as the Hypster one, and the good thing is that you can upload your own MP3 Files to it, making sure that the music playlist won’t get deleted.

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If you are looking for the ultimate Tumblr Music Widget to make a song playlist, then the SCM Music Player is the answer.  From our perspective, is truly a good option if the tracks you like are located in different websites, for example, youtube, grooveshark, deezer, mixpod or any other mp3 or video site where you can get the url.
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Though there are many Tumblr Music Widgets outthere that allow you to create a playlist and put it in your Tumblelog, sometimes you find individual tracks in a music post that you want to keep to listen to it later.  This tutorial tells you how to download music from Tumblr for free, and it only applies to tracks, songs and mp3s uploaded using Tumblr music player, also you must have the latest Firefox or Chrome version installed.
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If you already added a streampad widget to your tumblelog to later discover that it was not the color, or that it was missing the play button, don’t worry you can customize it so looks like just like you want.

How to Customize your Tumblr Streampad.

1. Go to this page and choose Tumblr as your platform.
2. Scroll down until you see the title Customize It, it is there where you must choose the proper colors and controls to be displayed in the bottom of your Tumblr.
3. After this, scroll up and grab the code that you need to paste in your layout’s html.
4. Once in Tumblr, go to Customize >>> HTML and paste the script right before the closing head tag (</head>).

If you are wondering why you needed to get back to Streampad’s homepage to get a new Tumblr Streampad customized player, it’s simple, the script is always the same, but it takes advantage of cookies in your browser to remember the configuration.

I know that many Tumblr users really hate the idea of a music player set on autoplay, specially those that can’t be turned off.  I’ve even seen groups created to unfollow these people.  However, many of you keep asking how to do it so here is how to add background music playlists to Tumblr.

Since there are so many ways to put music on your tumblr, we’ll start out by creating an autoplay music widget with with hypster. You can also Read this tutorial to know how to download songs from Tumblr.

How to Put Music on Tumblr That Autoplays in the Background

1. For the autoplay widget we are going to use Hypster.com
2. You first need to register with them. go here and create an account.
3. Once you are logged in, go here. After you entered the name, go back to your account and scroll down until you find the playlists section, there you need to set the one you are interested in to ACTIVE, then go to search and start adding songs to your playlist, this will always be your autoplay background music, and you need to come back to the site and edit the playlist if you want different songs to play.
4. Now, go here to crete your autoplay music widget from hypster. Choose the playlist and check the enable autoplay option.
5. The code below is the embed widget that autoplays on tumblr (make sure the volume is up so you can actually verify it’s working). NOTE: THE CODE IS ONLY MEANT TO SERVE AS AN EXAMPLE, IF YOU USE IT IN YOUR TUMBLR BLOG, IT WILL DISPLAY OUR PLAYLIST, REMEMBER TO GRAB YOUR OWN EMBEDDABLE HYPSTER CODE.




<img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://c.gigcount.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEzMzE*MDg5MDEzMjYmcHQ9MTMzMTQwODk*NTg4MiZwPTIxMzc5MSZkPSZnPTEmbz1hNTg3ZTc3MGU3NmU*OGJlYjcz/YTg2ZGZiMTBmYjcyOQ==.gif" /><embed quality="high" style="width:370px;visibility:visible; height:300px;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="300" width="370" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" border="0" src="http://www.hypster.com/flash/player.swf?id=1907883:1950215:0&autoplay=true" FlashVars="color_bg=0x9A0000&color_border=0x9A0000&color_box=0x9A0000&color_songbg=0xFF9700&color_song_clicked=0xFECB81&color_Title=0x000000&color_btns=0xD4D0C7&color_title=0x000000" /><br /><a href="http://www.hypster.com/?src=player-text" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12px">Get Your Own Free Hypster.com Playlist.</a>




6. The next step to have the background mp3 player is to strip a lot this code.  First, you must delete the <img tag until you see /> (right before <embed tag begins).  Then you need to delete the <a tag until </a>. Also, get rid of <br/> .  Finally, we must make some mods to the final code that is to be embedded as the background player for Tumblr. You can see that there are two pairs of width and height tags. You must change the values of the height tags to 15 in both cases.  Regarding the width tags, you can start by leaving them at 150, but that varies if you want to display the song title or not.  Never delete the px word after each value.
7. This is how it should like once the editing for the Tumblr autoplay background music player is done;







8. Go to your Tumblr >> Customize Theme >> Edit HTML and insert it where you consider appropiate, whether it is the header, sidebar, or footer, the higher the better since you are giving the visitor a chance to stop the autoplay. You can also add the autoplay widget for tumblr in your description box.

Last but not least, read the following suggestions for inserting autoplay music on Tumblr;

• If you want to add the autoplay widget on an individual post you can do it using the html button located on the edition tools.  However, it wouldnt make sense since you want it to work on every single page/post of your Tumblelog.
• All music widgets are quite similar in their structure no matter what site they are from, just give it a try changing the width, height, autoplay parameters to see how it finally shows up

How to Put Music On Tumblr

Besides Hypster, there are many other plugins that you can use to add music to your tumblr, streampad, SCM, tumblrplayer, beemp3, etc. In our opinion The best track player for tumblr is grooveshark (follow the link and learn how to install it). It has an endless stream of songs to choose from and is easily customizable.

We have individual tutorials that tell you how to embed music on tumblr, just follow the links below

More Resources To get music on Tumblr.

1. Grooveshark Playlist Widget for Tumblr
2. Music Widgets for Tumblr
3. How to Download Tracks from Tumblr
4. YouTube Music Player
5. SCM Tumblr Music Player

If you can’t manage to make your autoplay background music show up in your layout, just leave a link indicating the theme you are using and where you want it and We’ll try to help you.

Tumblr’s music upload limit of 10mbs a day is simply not enough for those that only use Tumblr to post their music.  So an external hosting site is the solution/alternative that Tumblr actually gives you.

This list of sites that externally host audio mp3 files to stream through Tumblr must display the URL with mp3 extension on it to be played by Tumblr’s own music player/widget, so don’t expect to find sites like Grooveshark that only allows you create a music playlist (even hosting your own audio) but not displaying the individual URL for each hosted file.  Remember, you just need to grab the URL, you don’t need to download any music file.

Music Hosting Sites for Tumblr.

• BeeMP3: Is the most popular audio hosting site for Tumblr users.  Even though it doesn’t actually store music files, it has so many songs in their database that you can certainly search for any famous song and find it there.
• Other sites:  Any other site that lets you host files can be a potential source to get an mp3 url and then stream it on Tumblr.  Most of them are not free though and once you exceed the bandwith transmission your account gets suspended.

In a few words, the list with all Tumblr Music Widgets works much better since it simple does the same that Tumblr audio player, and you can create endless playlists.  Check them out.

We know that Tumblr is widely used to upload and post music, make song playlists and insert Tumblr music widgets all around your theme.  But sometimes you just can’t find the song anywhere but in one of the most visited sites in the world, YouTube.  It may seem an irony, but most of us just want the YouTube video to play music, so why not turning YouTube in a audio player for Tumblr?.  Only a tweak of the embed code is needed in order to get rid of the annoying video screen that noone needs.


UPDATE: Follow this link to find out how to download music from Tumblr.

How To Make a YouTube Audio Player For Tumblr.

1. Grab the code from the YouTube video clip you want to use to play music.  It looks like this:

<object width=”480″ height=”385″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/4AjScYSuGJ4&hl=en_US&fs=1&”></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/4AjScYSuGJ4&hl=en_US&fs=1&” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”480″ height=”385″></embed></object>

2. You can see there are two strings of code that show both the width and height of the video player; width=”480″ height=”385 . We are only interested in the last one.
3. We must modify this line to make the YouTube Audio Player for Tumblr.  The value height will always be “25″ and the value width will be relative to your tumblr post layout.  In my case I chose “400″ but it could be as smaller though.
4. Now, paste and replace the the second line width=”480″ height=”385″ for width=”400″ height=”25″
5. Once in your publish screen, choose whatever type of post you feel like and paste the full youtube code in the html screen.  You can make this screen pop up by clicking on the html button that is located on your post toolbar.
6. You can not only paste this code into any type of posts, but also in your sidebar, header, or footer in your Tumblelog.

Here is an example of a YouTube music player for Tumblr.

You can also download Tumblr videos with this tool.