oops
looks like i put this in the wrong section of discussion. can't seem to undo that.
sorry
I'm looking at the audio module, filefield, swftools and similar modules to figure out what is the best way to get a simple player up there that can accompany text/graphic features. Something that supports playlists and which can be subscribed to would be ideal.
I'm running a drupal site with about 5000 nodes of content about 50% text and photos. (It's the online parallel of a print journal). We are looking to branch out with podcasts of audio interviews we have been conducting in studio, in person on the phone etc.
i threw up an xspf button player and it sort of worked but it doesn't strike me as a very robust solution and since its a 2006 release i'm quite sure better things have been built . I also fiddled up some prefab mixpod.com skins and liked the look and feel but don't really want to get bogged down in some other providers server problems or drive people to an advertising driven site.
i'm reasonably proficient at administering drupal sites but i'm a content creator and editor not a programmer or developer. I don't mind tweaking a few parameters, rewriting some html, installing a module or two but i'd like to keep it simple to find out if the content we're going to run really has any audience/value before building some big architecture.
for now I'm fine ftping the source files and don't need to give a lot of users the ability to upload to the site so i'm thinking i don't need filefield and perhaps i can just install JW player 5.1
http://www.longtailvideo.com/addons/modules/136/JW-Player-Module-for-Dru...
I see they have a drupal module but i don't see it here on the drupal site. anybody using this one.