Odds are distributing the music is against the law due to licensing. Music you have is licensed and not owned... unless you wrote the music and lyrics. If you are going to distribute music via the net, CD coppies, or anything like that you need a special license. Do you have that? Or, did you or your group write the music/lyrics yourself?

One solution would be to use an attachment for content Component and Plugin.

I've tested this one

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/directory-...

and it works great for putting files into articles. Might not be exactly what you are looking for but should work for .mp3 files. I've tested these files excel, word, .pdf, .jpg.

You also have these players...

http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/premiumbplayer/

Chris

As a worship leader, let me second Matt's caution...

It is NOT legal for a worship team to swap files any more than it is for anyone else to do it. This is not covered under CCLI. You CAN get a license to do this... by going to the individual record labels (who own the recordings of the songs you do) of each song and buying a license. The Record companies with worship labels, like EMI and Sony BGM offer licenses based on the size of your ministry that cover their entire catalog of songs.

Even one of these licenses is too expensive for our church, Much less trying to acquire one each from Vineyard, Integrity, EMI, Sony etc...

This is not an issue with whether you wrote the song or not. This is an issue with who owns the master recording you are distributing. If you wrote a song and Chris Tomlin cuts it on his next album, you STILL can't copy the recording and give it away to your friends (or your praise team), because you don't own the recording... EMI does.

Now, you CAN record the song yourself and distribute it the way you are trying to... that's what we do. The main band practices and cuts the song live, then I can give it to other praise team members to practice with. That's legal as long as it's not sold. Because the law says I pay the songwriter 9.5 cents for each sale. That's why songwriters don't get paid for demonstration copies that record companies distribute to radio stations or on samplers that are give-a-ways.

I hope we don't even need to have a conversation about whether or not Christian ministries should follow copyright law to the letter.

Blessings,
Tony

http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/sermon_speaker

This is another mp3 tool. I have not tested this but will install it tomorrow for a church. Anyone have any feedback on it?

Chris