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Sweet little Flash podcast player
Have you seen PupuPlayer?
Click on the Who Said game graphic on the right and you'll see what it does (launches a little window containing a Flash player loaded up with all the items in my podcast feed, and starts right in playing the most recent one).
It's nothing you couldn't make yourself if you know a little more Flash than I do, but I don't so I popped for the 10 bucks for rights to customize it. There's also a free version that advertises other podcasts.
Let me tell you what I think I'm going to do with it, and how I made it work in Loudblog, the PHP/MySQL app that generates my feed and edits my ID3 tags and makes this page.
What I'll do with it. I don't need a Flash player for the podcast site, because Loudblog has a nice one built in to each entry, in the way a lot of podcast directories do it. I was interested in PupuPlayer as a way to allow other sites to play my podcast.
- I've put it on another of my own sites already.
- I think it would be a good tool for cross promotion of podcasts -- as something you do for another cast in a formal network, or just an informal periodic cross-pollination thing.
- And I also think some static sites might really like to let their visitors play audio files as a content feature, if it fits the subject matter of the site.