Two things I would like to suggest not to forget.
1. When you travel within USA, do not forget to check out prices on southwest airlines at Southwest.com.
We always check out prices on
kayak.com, priceline.com, orbitz.com, cheaptickets.com, etc etc ( If you're not already aware, there you have the list!)
Anyway whats the point here is, none of these sites list southwest airlines. And I always found southwest offering the best rates, moreover YOUR BAGS FLY FREE!!! with southwest. Otherwise you'd be paying about $15 for your 1st checked bag and about $25 for your 2nd one. You'd save $40 with southwest if you have two bags. If you do not have bags at all then you have more options to consider, I would also suggest to check FrontierAirlines.com in that case.

2. When you buy stuff online, especially electronic stuff do not forget to check amazon.com(good for californians) and buy.com. Also, note that Amazon does not tax except KS, KY, ND, WA. So if you're not living in one of them states, you'd pay flat rate, the list price and mostly free shipping if your purchase is above $25. Buy.com taxes only these CA, MA, NY, TN. I am not excluding other sites well known sites out there, it is always good to check prices on deals2buy.com, pricegrabber.com etc search for your product.

There are many mp3 players out there for your blog/website like xspf player, flourish player, mixpod etc etc. Some work in firefox only, some work in both firefox and internet explorer but don't playlist. Anyway, with this post you'll be able to setup a working mp3 player for your website/blog.

1.First, you'll need a file hosting service, where you can store files(mp3 files in this case).
There are many free file hosting services out there. I will go with  www.skydrive.live.com
Capacity: 25GB
Max upload size: 50MB
Sign in to www.skydrive.live.com with your msn, hotmail or any live ID and upload your mp3 files into your public folder.

2.Right click on this link and save link as/save target as and save it to your PC...  PLAYER_MP3_MULTI.SWF and then upload it to your skydrive public folder.

3.We need permanent links for your files in skydrive so they're accessible over the internet all the time through the same links.

4.Now, as with the most of the file hosting services skydrive doesn't give out a permanent link for a file, so a file which is accesible through a link today may not be accessible tomorrow through the same link.
But don't worry! Thanks to Tim Acheson, he found a solution for us. Go ahead and get your permanent links to your files HERE



NOTE: You have to encode your link to use with Tim Acheson's API. From your skydrive copy the "web address." as shown in the figure and go to this SITE TO ENCODE .







5. You now have the permanent links for your mp3 player and your mp3 files.

• Sign into your blog and click on customize at top right corner 
• Click on "Add a gadget", that opens a window, in that look for HTML/JavaScript and click on it.
• Title: mp3 player, in "Content" copy and paste the following code:  
• 
  
  
  

  <object data="http://yoursite.com/player_mp3_multi.swf" 
  width="200" height="100" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
      <param value="http://yoursite.com/player_mp3_multi.swf" 
                       name="movie"/>
      <param value="#ffffff" name="bgcolor"/>
      <param value="mp3=http://yoursite.com/song1.mp3 | 
  http://yoursite.com/song2.mp3&amp;title=song1 | song2 
  &amp;autoplay=0&amp;showvolume=1" name="FlashVars"/>
  </object>
  

  
  
  
  
• In the above code, replace the  "http://yoursite.com/player_mp3_multi.swf" and "http://yoursite.com/song1.mp3" with your actual permanent links of your mp3 player and your mp3 files.
  
• Click on save button and you're done
  

This mp3 player both in firefox and internet explorer, unlike xspf player or any others I tried and  it is tiny and simple. I have this working mp3 player in my blog-footer, you should be able to have one too.