If you input a story ID that has no audio, the player will still be embedded. In fact, it will still have the title of the story and the teaser in the player, and you can click the play button. But since there's no audio it won't do anything.

Also some stories don't have audio yet, and if you go to npr it might say "audio will be available at 7pm" or something. It would be cool if the embedded player said the same thing. I'm not sure if this is possible.

Let me know if you want help with this module. You mentioned in this description that this isn't ready for production and I'm curious what bugs you already know about. I would be glad to help out if I'm able.

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alex ua commented

I'm not really actively developing this module at the moment. Would you like to help maintain it? I'd be happy to help you get a CVS account if you're interested...

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ksweet commented

Sure, I'll give it a shot. Any information you have that might help me get started maintaining it would be a huge help. Although I've messed around creating modules myself, I've never worked on a public module before.

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alex ua commented

Awesome! Very glad to hear it, and I'm more than happy to help you get setup. (This is also an area where you'll get a lot of help in #drupal, so don't feel shy about asking questions there: I'm alexua there if you want to ping me)

Here are the instructions for how to gain CVS access: http://drupal.org/cvs-application/requirements

I'll go ahead and do step one- I'll create an issue here asking that you be given cvs access to help maintain this module.

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alex ua commented

here's the issue: #914840: Make ksweet a maintainer of media_npr

Thanks again for getting involved!!!

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ksweet commented

Great! That was really quick, and I've already got a CVS account. :)

I already have what I need setup, namely an installation with breakpoint debugging working, and I'm familiar with revision control.

Right now I'm mostly curious if you are already aware of some of this module's shortcomings. I figure you had reason to mention that the module is not ready for production. If you could point me in the right direction for solving things you already know about, I would be eternally grateful! Creating a few issues would be much help for sure.

Either way I'll start poking around the code more and seeing where I can make the module better. Thanks for your help!

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alex ua commented

I don't know any of the module's shortcomings, because I never tried to use it on a real site. I built this at Public Media Camp to show how easy it is to integrate with Drupal, but had no real intention of using it personally (I hoped to be able to work on it professionally, but a project that would have led to that never panned out).