We have posted an article about embedding SoundCloud sounds in Blogger and after reading that, few folks asked us about adding background music to their blogs that is without showing any player controls to their visitors. You might have noticed in some blogs that once when you land on it some music suddenly starts to play. It may be pleasant or annoying; whatever it is they add it to grab their visitor’s attention. How about you would you like to add a nice instrumental music to your blog background? It’s simple, here we will see how to add background music or sound to Blogger blog.

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There are many ways to add background music to your blog but here we will show you the easy one. By using <audio> tag you can embed a music player with visible controls; make a sound to play at once when the website loads and add a background music that plays endlessly with controls hidden. Alright, let’s see how to do this.

How to add background music or sound to Blogger blog

First before adding background music to your blog you must have a music file to call in. Just in Google, search for royalty free music’s and you will see many sites offering free music downloads. Select any suitable background music for your blog or if you have already got one, then just upload it to any online storage sites there are hundreds of best free file hosting servers. Hope your music file is ready; now move on to Blogger part.

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Login to your Blogger blog and then choose the blog where you wish to add your background music. Next go to Layout, choose “add a gadget”, select HTML/JavaScript gadget and then add the below line.

Now in source src=”” add your music file location, save the gadget and then view your blog where you can hear the music playing, but the controls are hidden. In the above code “autoplay” starts to play the sound as soon as it is ready and “loop” will make the audio to repeat every time when it is finished.

If you would like to show audio controls for your visitors then just add controls inside the audio tag just like this.

The audio player looks like..

If you wish to add a music player or make music to play in just single post or page, then you can add it only in that particular page. The audio player control doesn’t fits your blog sidebar, say you want to increase the player width. To do so add an id inside the tag like this <audio id=”player” controls autoplay loop> then add a CSS like this

That’s it! Hope that helped you to add background music to your blog.

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Getting your music heard is hard. Getting your music heard by the right people is even harder. You hear so many blogs, journalists and other industry big names complaining about unsolicited PR emails from bands, so it’s difficult to know where to tread. This is why we have set up this blog post, containing info and links to all the influential sites and blogs who not only accept these emails but welcome them.

But before you start emailing, here’s a quick word of warning. Never under any circumstances send a group email. It may save you time, but putting all these addresses into a BCC field and firing over a group email would burn more bridges than it would build. Spend some time looking at each site individually, see what sort of music they are into and try to relate. If you are a sensitive singer songwriter crooning over an acoustic guitar, don’t contact a hip-hop blog. Find them on Twitter, look at their recent articles, and try and find common ground between them and your music.

Below is a list of blogs that are accepting submissions.

A&R Factory

A&R Factory is a popular music blog with a wide-ranging readership, including record label owners, publishers, radio stations, PR executives, managers and sync licensing firms from all over the globe.

IndiePulse Music Magazine

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HighClouds

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Xune Mag

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Indie Shuffle

Indie Music Shuffle is run by a diverse group of people excited about sharing new music. They don’t write bad reviews, so everything you read about is something they like and believe is worth checking out.

Cut The Pause

Cut The Pause is all about new music discovery, covering new artists with blog and playlist features across lots of genres including indie, rock, hip-hop, R&B, electronic and more.

Aquarium Drunkard

Aquarium Drunkard is an music blog with reviews, interviews, features, mp3 samples and sessions. It accepts all sorts of submissions and covers contemporary sounds with vintage garage, psych, folk, country, soul, funk, R&B and everything that falls in between.

Birp.fm

BIRP is a playlist aggregator and blog devoted to new and unsigned artists. The site also acts as a hub for a growing community of people that love to share and talk about music.

Music Emissions

Music Emissions was created to present one person's critical thinking on independent music. Up and coming musician can build a profile on the site in the hope of getting featured review.

Aurgasm

Aurgasm is an essential destination for passionate music lovers around the world, featuring an eclectic range of tracks from unsigned bands and solo artists all over the globe.

Country Fried Rock

Country Fried Rock is a one-hour, weekly radio road trip that features some of the most exciting off-the-radar artists talking about and playing the music that moves them.

Drowned in Sound

Drowned in Sound has everything to keep you up to date with reviews, music news and community posts. The site commisions around 15 album reviews a week from submissions by unsigned artists.

Emerging Indie Bands

Emerging Indie Bands is dedicated to showcasing the very best up and coming independent musicians from across the globe, review and promoting hundreds of exciting unsigned artists.

FACT

FACT has built up a reputation for featuring some of the biggest up-and-coming artists. They have offices in the UK, US and Australia and their own online TV channel!

Knox Road

Knox Road is your ideal music fix, and sometimes more. Support what you like. It's pretty simple, really. The website also accepts submissions from unsigned artists looking to promote their music.

HearYa

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Indie Music Life

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King of A&R

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Kings of A&R is a one-stop shop for information about new music trends and finding new music. The site accepts music submissions from all types of bands and artists.

Potholes In My Blog

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Metal Injection

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Indie Music Filter

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The Music Ninja

The Music Ninja is a multi-genre music discovery site based in the deep, dark and melodic shadows of the internet.

Pigeons & Planes

Pigeons & Planes is a music discovery and the perfect place to go to uncover lots of fantastic new music, whatever genre you're looking for from anywhere in the world.

Songdew

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Songdew is a platform for independent musicians to promote their music and reach masses with various opportunities. With a community of 20,000+ musicians and over 1 million listeners, Songdew helps musicians get discovered.

If anyone has any more suggestions, feel free to post in the comment section below!

Good luck!

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