Can You Use PowerPress Audio Player as Site Player

[grant.swaim]

Hi,

I am building a new site and plan to use PowerPress. I did have one question about the audio player.

I often have an audio clip I want to play on a post that is not part of a podcast. For a consistent look and feel on the site, I want to use one audio player. So, could I use the same PowerPress supplied audio player to play any audio on my site? If so, how would you do it?

Thanks in advance for any help on this.

[grant.swaim]

I found the answer. You can place the player using shortcodes. Pretty cool. You just don't get the "Play in Window" or "Download" link.... Oh Well 

[angelo]

Play in new Window, Download, and Embed are podcast episode specific options, where-as when you use the shortcode with the URL to the media file you're essentially going around it being tied t a podcast feed or having any of the extra meta data needed to display the media in those links.

[grant.swaim]

OK.

For a consistent look and feel across a site, it would be good if these features were also supported for media that is not going into a feed.

It would be great if in the Podcast Episode Panel (on the page edit screen) there were a check box for "Not include in a feed". This way the PowerPress interface could be used to present all media on a site, not just feed media. I am not a coder and have no idea how big of a deal this is, Just saying it would be sweet to have

[angelo]

If you want a consistent look, then make sure all media is in a podcast episode box and is tied to a podcast channel feed if you need to have multiple media files in 1 blog post.

Perhaps what I said did not make sense. When you just provide a link to a media file, for your convenience we display a player for that media file. If you want all the bells and whistles (links and meta data below the player), you need to enter it into a podcast episode entry box so then PowerPress can grab all the extra data needed for those links. This extra data is why you installed the plugin in the first place. Extra data includes the file size, duration, and any other specific iTunes attribute if configure powerpress with them.

[angelo]

With podcast channels, you can create as many channels as you wnat as long as you don't distribute the feed then no one knows it's there. Yo ucan color code each podcast channel as well so when your editing your blog post you can distinguish them.

[grant.swaim]

Looks like starting an unpublished feed to use for presenting standard media in a post would work, but a "exclude from feed" check box would make for a slick work flow.

Thanks Angelo,

[angelo]

I understand what you're saying, but the whole point is to have the feed, that's the secret sauce to what is podcasting.