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Here’s what I used for the audio on my blogs:
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Is that an “embed”? All that showed on the blog post was the play, pause and stop buttons. The actual audio file was on my server.

Thanks again, everyone, for all your help.

This is a link or “anchor” to my blog.

When you put a link in a normal post like that, the WordPress software does post processing on them. For links to other blogs, the “pingback” mechanism gets activated, potentially telling that blog that you posted something about their blog.

One other little known feature is that WordPress checks the MIME type of everything it receives back during this ping checking process. If it notices that you linked to a file which returns a MIME type of “audio/whatever” or “video/whatever”, it makes a note of that fact. This note takes the form of some custom meta data about the post. You can actually see it on the post after it happens, in the editing screen down by the custom fields stuff. It will have a name of _enclosure, I think. Don’t edit that field, BTW, it’s a bit obscure and you should leave it alone (like anything starting with an underscore in the custom fields).

This signals the RSS feed builder to create the correct enclosure tag when that post comes up in a feed. And that is what lets podcasts work.

So an embed or an object won’t do the trick. But a simple <a href… will.

I did see that there are several items on Google relating to the podpress plugin which were a bit scary — like fatal errors. Is that a real concern?

I’m also confused about the “anchor” vs. the “embed” method of including an audio. I used this:

Does the fact that the is used make this audio a podcast — or is that still an “anchor”? The audio I had on my blog (I took it off recently) was an introduction to the topic and to my reasons for writing about it. All that showed on the blog was the play, stop, pause buttons, a pic of me all followed by the text about the topic.

This is an exciting topic. I hope we can keep this dialog going.

Regarding, text vs. podcasting, simply have the pods transcribed and edited. I use services like Elance for same and it’s quick/easy and affordable.