How can I make a plain jane mp3 player for a website?

Answer 1

Flash would probably be your best bet. I don't know what your background is, but there are a lot of tutorials on making one:

http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/05/46/index2a.html?tw=multimedia

http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Flash/Making-an-MP3-FLV-Player-with-Flash-MX-2004-and-JavaScript/

http://www.thegoldenmean.com/technique/mp3player01.html

there is also some free-ones available:
http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net/

http://www.hooverwebdesign.com/flash/free-music-player.html

Answer 2

What would be the purpose of such a thing? If all you want to do is have a particular song playing or something to that effect when someone visits the site, you can include the song file using an tag...If you're talking about embedding a *player* that could then be used by a user to play an mp3...what's the point in that?