UNDER CONSTRUCTION

The following are a set of resources that you need in order to start creating a podcast for Drupal 6.

As the Audio Module (http://www.drupal.org/project/audio) is not ready for production sites running Drupal 6, follow the instructions within this blog:
http://www.mustardseedmedia.com/podcast/episode19

The File Field module works with Views (http://www.drupal.org/project/views) to generate a podcast feed. You also have to have additional modules required by the File Field Podcast. Follow the instructions.
http://drupal.org/project/ffpc

To get your podcast added to iTunes read this next article. In the article you can find instructions to submit your podcast feed to the iTunes store. If you are accepted they will supply you with a special podcast link code that will launch the player and add your podcast to itunes.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatson/podcasts/specs.html

If you want to skip those steps, simply create a link to your podcast feed and replace the the http:// with itpc:// . This will launch the player and add the podcast - the user must already have iTunes installed. Example is at the bottom.

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If you want to add an audio player with playlist you can use the jw player 4.
Player: http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/

Use the SWF project to make it run (follow the installation instructions closely, there are several steps for installation). If you followed the instructions from mustardseed media you should already have the 1pixel out player installed with this module:
http://drupal.org/project/swftools

Customize your default settings for the JW player 4 in the swftools module so that the height of the playlist is 20 pixels shorter than the height - this will make the player show no video window. Make sure that the swf input filter is running and use a code like this within a block or page to display your jw player:
<swf player="wijering4_mediaplayer" file="http://www.whatisatlas.com/atlas_podcast" playlistsize="340" height="360" width="100%"></swf>

In the code I have overwritten the defaults for height, width and the playlist size - (playlist is 20 pixels smaller than the height so that the player controls will show).

The player is linked to the podcast feed that we have already created. You could create a second derivative podcast feed with the views to limit or sort the number or audio files to play with the JW player.

Here is my example site: http://www.whatisatlas.com/media
Podcast feed: http://www.whatisatlas.com/atlas_podcast
Podcast feed iTunes-ified: itpc://www.whatisatlas.com/atlas_podcast