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a WordPress plugin that would not only allow the user to easily embed media from YouTube, Vimeo, Yahoo Video and Soundcloud into their posts, but also allow us as developers to use it as a function in the our WordPress template files to embed videos in custom content types and other filters. The plugin also comes with a widget to allow you to easily embed media in your sidebar.
The plugin currently supports YouTube, Vimeo, Yahoo Video and Soundcloud. We hope to be able to add more online media services soon.
<h3>Usage</h3>
How do users use it?
To embed a piece of media in a post or page you simply need to add the following shortcode to you post or page content:
[media link=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EojN6r2VSR4″]
You can also set a custom width and height to your media by adding the width and height parameters to the shortcode:
[media width=”800″ height=”600″ link=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EojN6r2VSR4″]
As of version 1.3 you can now remove the container around the embed code by setting the container to false(default is true):
[media container=”false” link=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EojN6r2VSR4″]
How do developers use it?
Don’t worry, we did not forget about the developers.
To embed a piece of media somewhere in the code you simply need to add the following function to the template:
<code><?php media_embed('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EojN6r2VSR4'); ?></code>
You can also set a custom width and height to the media by adding arguments for width and height respectively:
<code><?php media_embed('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EojN6r2VSR4', 800, 600); ?></code>
As of version 1.3 it is now possible to remove the container around the embed code you can set the container to false(default is true):
<code><?php media_embed('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EojN6r2VSR4', 800, 600, false); ?></code>
OR if you don’t want to set the width and height and just remove the container:
<code><?php media_embed('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EojN6r2VSR4', '', '', false); ?></code>

Ninja Embed Plugin

Easily embed media from YouTube, Vimeo, Yahoo Video and Soundcloud into your posts, pages and templates.

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Configure Visual-Sound through your administration interface\settings. 
Choose a provider: soundcloud, visualdreams or visualsound for combined mode. 
When supporting the plug-in you’ll get a sample widget preview!
More information can be found at http://visualsound.be
General Visual-Sound plug-in syntax:
[provider mode username location]
SoundCloud Syntax:
[soundcloud command username location]
examples:
[soundcloud track user location] opens the user/trackname
[soundcloud playtrack user location] autoplay user/trackname
[soundcloud set user location] opens the user/setname
[soundcloud playset user location] autoplay user/setname
[soundcloud dropbox user] dropbox for user
[soundcloud inbox user] inline dropbox for user
VisualDreams Syntax:
[visualdreams command username location/object]
examples:
[visualdreams open user object] opens the user/object or location
[visualdreams license user object] opens licensing for user/object or location
[visualdreams fetch user object] fetches the user/object
[visualdreams identify user object] identifies user through object
VisualMIX Syntax:
[visualmix command username location|object]
VisualMIX examples:
Same commandline as SoundCloud & VisualDreams combined. In further versions there 
might be added services or providers.

Visual Sound

Gets SoundCloud, ArtistPlugme and Visualdreams imported in your blog in no-time by using a simple command line!

Ninja Embed Plugin vs Visual Sound