collective.flowplayer's
greatest strength is embedding audio and video within the text of pages, news items, and other pieces of content. Its editing interface integrates with Kupu, Plone's default WYSIWYG editor, in a way that's minimally invasive and thus unlikely to break your site in the future. Specifically, it uses CSS classes combined with JavaScript magic that executes on page load.
Embedding audio within a page (or any other rich-text-carrying piece of content) goes like so:
1. Within the Body Text field, add a link to an MP3, using any of Kupu's various link-making buttons. Or, in HTML mode, add markup like this:
<a href="some/folder/gerbils-shouting.mp3">Gerbils Shouting (Any contents of this tag will be replaced.)</a>
2. It doesn't matter whether the link points to an address inside or outside your Plone site or even to another server altogether; the Flowplayer is equally happy to pull data from anywhere.
3. Apply one of the Audio styles...