By VinceDee on

...it's not very clear what I'm supposed to do to make it work. Using Fantastico, I installed Wordpress 2.0 and then installed the podpress podcasting module. It was easy and from the WP install to listening to my own podcast RSS feed it was about 20 minutes. But Wordpress doesn't do everything I'd like, so I uninstalled it (OMG it's so easy to do with Fantastico it's probably fattening or something!).

But problems galore with Drupal 4.6.5. It was easy enough to install Drupal using Fantastico, but that's about where the ease-of-use ended for me and my blog. Perhaps there's something blatantly obvious that I'm missing here, but there doesn't appear to be any easy solutions to podcasting with 4.6.5. I currently have Narkoba's module installed, but it keeps trying to play m3u files and Windows Media Player is having a problem with those. Plus, I just want it to play mp3 files straight up, using a mini player installed on the blog entry page itself...like podpress does. I don't want the user to have to download the file in order to play it.

The Drupal audio.module is apparently for 4.7, so that's not an option (or at least I haven't found anyone who says you can do it).

Why does it have to be so hard? I would rather use Drupal for my blog than Wordpress because Drupal is more flexible and has other capabilities built into it, but does that automatically mean that it has to be a royal PITA to configure every time I want to add some new capability to my site?

Vince

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.6.x

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zirafa commented

This was written before the audio.module, playlist.module and Narkoba's module were around, but it might help, and has a little RSS podcast player so people can listen immediately.

Walkthrough:
http://drupalart.org/community-podcast-tutorial

Demo:
http://podcast-demo.drupalart.org/

The short of it is, a podcast is simply an RSS feed, so you can just use the blog feature in drupal, and turn on file upload attachments for each blog entry, and that will create a podcast feed from your blog. Or you could create a category/taxonomy called "podcast" and just tag the entries you want to be in your podcast. Drupal automatically creates an RSS feed from items in a specific category:
www.example.com/taxonomy/term/4/0/feed
or something like that.

You may also want to take a look at:
http://drupal.org/node/22170

-z