An audio player for Drupal 6?
I'm new to Drupal (and building websites in general actually) and am trying to find the best way to embed an audio player (using Flash if at all possible) in pages. Preferably this would be straightforward for a nontechnical user. I'm using version 6.2.
Flash Node looked promising, but without SWF Tools (which apparently is not going to be ported to version 6) its media player (or any other that needs Javascript) won't work.
It looks like parts of the Audio module have been ported to 6 (http://drupal.org/node/211587), but I don't get the impression that it's ready for a production site.
I don't fully understand how the Content Creation Kit works yet, but the one module for it that mentions audio is for Drupal 5 anyway.
Is it possible to just embed some Javascript that loads a Flash player into a page, without needing any extra modules? I'm at something of a loss as to what to do next, and would greatly appreciate any direction anyone can provide.
Drupal 6 media players
I'm also a Drupal newbie in a similar position looking for ways to show locally-hosted FLV videos in Drupal 6.
I was hoping for an equivalent to the excellent AllVideos Reloaded plugin for Joomla and the only similar things I've found so far are the FlashVideo and Shadowbox modules.
Both seem to use the JW Media Player which plays video or just audio nicely (but is unfortunately not open source). I've not used either module properly yet but both look promising.
Hope this helps and if anyone has better suggestions, please please please...
Using local files
Shadowbox does look promising, especially if I can also use it for image galleries, but I'm having trouble using it.
It installs fine, and works with full URLs, but I don't know how to get it working with local files in Drupal's directory tree on my web server. Is there a standard place extra files like this go in Drupal? How do you then reference them? I haven't found anything covering this in Drupal's documentation, and have tried every combination of paths I can think of for Shadowbox's settings. I must be missing something obvious. :-\
similar discussion
A similar discussion took place here: http://drupal.org/node/255701
experimental audio player add-on discussion here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/10869