Sturvs has added IMEEM to the list of media that can be embedded with quick-tags (e.g. <imeemsong>VIDEOCODE</imeemsong>) to display media in a Sturvs submission. This means users with audio files/mixes/mixtapes which exceed the Sturvs size limit of 20MB and users with IMEEM videos can still put their content on Sturvs, via IMEEM.

On IMEEM there are currently four (4) types of media users can post, and also copy embed code for, which are song, music playlist, video & photo. We didn’t see the need to enable Sturvs embeds for photos so we decided to focus on only songs & music playlists.

Instructions on how to embed each media type are below:

1. On the page of any IMEEM song, playlist or video copy the embed code from under the player as shown below:
   
2. Now in the embed code you just copied look for a random-looking code (let’s call it MEDIACODE) after the http://media.imeem.com/ part of the src attribute.
In any IMEEM embed code (either song, playlist or video) the media code is located in the same place with the following differences:

   For IMEEM songs, the media code is located at
   ...http://media.imeem.com/m/MEDIACODE…

   For IMEEM playlists, the media code is located at
   ...http://media.imeem.com/pl/MEDIACODE…

   For IMEEM videos, the media code is located at
...http://media.imeem.com/v/MEDIACODE…

   e.g.

   <object width="300" height="80"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/MEDIACODE/aus=false/“></param><param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”></param><embed src=”http://media.imeem.com/m/MEDIACODE/aus=false/” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”300″ height=”110″ wmode=”transparent”></embed><a href=”http://www.imeem.com/someusername/music/somecodeyouignore/song_title/”>Song Title</a></object>

3. Take this string (MEDIACODE) and when you reach step 2 of the Sturvs submit process, you can now place the following quicktag anywhere in the description field on the form to display your media:
   For a Song: <imeemsong>MEDIACODE</imeemsong>
For a Playlist: <imeemplaylist>MEDIACODE</imeemplaylist>
For a Video: <imeemvideo>MEDIACODE</imeemvideo>

View demo of the above instructions

All of the currently allowed quicktags for video/media on Sturvs are: <youtube><googlevideo><myspace><dailymotion><ifilm><metacafe><brightcove><imeemsong><imeemplaylist><imeemvideo> where a code is pasted from the original embed code from the external website and placed in-between the quicktags to embed the media on a Sturvs submission.

We hope say Nigerian IMEEM users go gbadun our new feature.

Due to popular demand and requests from our users, we now have a user playlist feature on Sturvs Music. Each user now has a link to a playlist of music items that the user has saved to his/her profile. So basically the only way to add an mp3 to your playlist is to save that item. Each entry has a Save button under it when logged in.

Please note that the “Save” feature is not only for mp3s. You can save any Sturvs item to your saved items, which is visible under your profile menu, but only those items with mp3s attached will show up in the user playlist. All saved mp3 items can be visible under Profile > Playlist.

1. Click on Profile
   
2. Click on Playlist

Also to remove an item just go to your saved items by clicking on Saved in your profile and then click on the Remove button.

The user playlist will also always be available at:
http://www.sturvs.com/naijamusic/USERNAME

We hope this gives users a better listening experience on Sturvs.com.