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First create a Facebook page:

1. Create a Facebook page (if you have a facebook page skip to the next section).
2. Go to Facebook.com (you need to be logged out of facebook first).
3. Create a page on Facebook but clicking on the bottom right hand side of the screen.
4. Select “Artist, Band or Public figure.” Choose a name and category for your business/music. Click “save.”
5. When prompted, click “I already have a Facebook account” and log in with your information.

Second, open a new window and create an Audimated account for your music:

1. Register with an Artist Account at www.audimated.com.
2. Confirm your email address by clicking the confirmation link in the email Audimated will send you after signing up.
3. Once confirmed, go back to Audimated and log in to your account with your account credentials.
4. Click “Edit Profile” in the top right side of your dashboard.
5. Click the “Store” link in the left hand menu.
6. Click “Singles” in the middle of the screen.
7. Click “Create Product” which is displayed under the singles header.
8. Click the “Browse” button on the top right, select a song from your computer and click “Upload.”
9. Next you can change the meta data (information associated with the song file) for your mp3 music. You can add a picture, title and song details as well as pricing information if you want to sell the music. Fill out the fields in the center and click “Update” at the bottom (you can continue to add as many songs as you like by repeating this process for each mp3).
10. Once you are finished uploading your songs click “Home” in the top right of the Audimated navigation bar.
11. In the center you will see your radio playlist with a orange “Get radio embed code.” Click this orange button and a flash script will be displayed (a bunch of text). Normally we will use this code to paste into any website, but Facebook is particular about what code is allowed on the site so we need to make some changes to it first.

Third, add the radio code to facebook:

1. Sign in to Facebook.
2. Click “Applications” on the left.
3. Search for “Static FBML.”
4. Click on “Static FBML.”
5. Click on “Add to page” on the left hand side, select the page you just created and click add to page.
6. Click “Home.”
7. Click on “Ads and pages” on the left.
8. Scroll down and click “edit” under FBML.
9. Change the box title to the name you want displayed on your Facebook profile (this will be the text in the tab when people view your Facebook page).

10. Paste the following code into the FBML box. You will notice that the code is a little different that when it was displayed on our Audimated profile. This is again because Facebook has specific requirements which must be met in order to add your own HTML to the site (which we are doing here).

If you want to read up on what else you can do you can visit the developers page. Make sure to change the YOURUSERNAME to your Audimated user name (this is the portion of text that comes after the .com/ when viewing your Audimated profile ie: www.audimated.com/YOURUSERNAME).

<fb:swf imgstyle=”border-width:3px; border-color:black;”
swfsrc=’http://www.audimated.com/widget/player.swf?playlist_url=http://www.audimated.com/widget/player.widget.php?user=YOURUSERNAME‘
imgsrc=”http://www.audimated.com/img/AudimatedRadioFacebookCover.png”
width=’514px’
height=’198px’
waitforclick=’true’
/>Get your own <a href=”http://www.audimated.com/”>Audimated Radio</a>

11. Click “Save.”
12. Click the name of your page in the top left of the screen to view the changes.

At first you might not see your tab at the top of the page, but this is likely because there is not enough room. If you click on the discussions tab you can click the pencil icon and select “delete” (this tab never gets used too much). We can create some more space and even change the order of the tabs by clicking and dragging them to a new position. I advise moving the tab as far left as possible to make sure people can see it.

You are done! Visitors to your site can now stream, download or purchase these songs. You can always access your account on Audimated and change the songs, prices or data associated with your playlist.