Music widgets have now moved into the mainstream with many powerful features that you can add to jazz up your web site in a snap. CNET's article Eight (and a half) free Web music players focuses on music players that you put on your web site and program with a playlist.

When your web page is called the flash-based player is automatically downloaded from the music site. The players are easy to add to your web site. The music service provides code that you just paste into your web page.

Players covered are Imeem, MyFlashFetish boombox, SeeqPod, FineTune, Project Playlist, SplashCast, Streampad, Hypster, and Last.fm

The sites offer a lot of features for your widget like customizable player displays, recommended music (Last.fm), video and photos, ratings, social networking, uploadable songs, large music libraries, and web music searches.