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Exactly the same thing is happening for me. It’s pulling from my old blog instead of from my new (redirected) blog. Very frustrating. Anyone have a fix for this?

Er, sorry but that FAQ very specifically refers to the free hosted version of WordPress, as does my first post above, as well as my blog’s address there. Sincerely don’t mean to step on toes, but there doesn’t seem to be a separate FAQ or forum site for WordPress.com. Clicking on the FAQ link at WordPress.com Support only directs to the www.remarpro.com FAQ, which is how I got here.

Is there anybody else out there who can provide some insight into my question? Many thanks in advance…

The WordPress FAQ post I’m referring to is here: ‘How Do I Get Music On My Blog?‘

Again, I’m not using the standalone WordPress software but a free blog hosted by WordPress, which is why I can’t use a separate audio plugin for this purpose. But the audio player WordPress provides is supposed to work fine for their free hosted blogs without additional plugins.

Thanks for the reply. I’m a little confused, though. The instructions WordPress provides in their FAQ specifically state to place the URL of the file inside brackets, following the word “audio” and a space, which is what I posted above. But the link you posted in your reply does not include either the brackets or the word “audio.” You’re right, it plays the audio from that link fine, but when I place it in a post and save it, I get no flash music player, just a web URL that sits there and does nothing. Here’s what WordPress says to do:

Upload an mp3 file somewhere on the internet and link to it like this [audio ] with the address inside.
Like this:
[audio https://wpcom.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/mattmullenweg-interview.mp3%5D
That will produce the following audio player.

So I’m following their instructions for producing a flash player in a blog post to the letter, quite literally. But all I get is a post with a URL in it, regardless of whether I use the version with the brackets and the word “audio” inside it or just the bare address of the file itself.

I’m embarrassed to admit I have absolutely no idea what non-validating code is, what that means relative to my blog, how it happened, or how to correct it. I’ve been using WordPress for two years, and this is the first time I’ve run across the term…

Holy smokes …. thanks for the advice but I don’t even know what phpMyAdmin is, much less how to install, configure, and use it per the install instructions. I’m not a coder of any kind. I downloaded it, but I might as well have a brain surgery patient on a table in front of me and be told, “First, go ahead and fix the brain.”

Is there any other way of fixing this problem without using phpMyAdmin?

Filezilla was the magic answer. Thanks much.