Phillip did some code detective work and discovered how to embed a Google MP3 player in your blog. It also works for copying directly to the Firefox URL bar. This is the same player Google uses to play voicemails from GTalk inside Gmail, so no idea if or when they will change or block this from use outside Gmail.

Format
mail.google.com/mail/html/audio.swf?audioUrl=MP3PATH

where MP3PATH is the full path to your MP3. So in the case of last week’s Hmmcast having the following path:
libsyn.com/media/kmrenterprises/Hmmcast19-08182006_64k.mp3

The full link would look like this (hover over and look in your status bar).

Permalinks, pretty please?
Now if only Google will add indexing and permalinks like they do for video so we could append the .mp3 with the minutes and seconds where to jump forward in the audio then we’d be all set for better podcast notes. This way those who make podcasts can setup where the stuff is and readers can skip right to those points in the audio instead of having to listen to the entire podcast. Yeah, yeah I know, we should listen from beginning to end. The reality is if your podcast is longer than a few minutes that’s unlikely to happen.

Like anything else on the web, if you hook the listener in with a snippet or two maybe they will go back and listen to the whole thing from beginning to end. The way it is these days you have to rely on the podcaster to tell you what parts of the audio correspond to the notes and the vast majority don’t do that (myself included). Technology could help us here.

Nathan makes a few other good points about the Google embedded player along with the code to embed inside your website page(s).

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