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title: "Goodbye Podpress, it’s time for a new mp3 player"
date: 2007-12-10
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# Goodbye Podpress, it’s time for a new mp3 player

I've been using [PodPress, a WordPress plugin](http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/) that adds an audio player to your posts, for about a year now. But today I'm saying goodbye to this plugin. Although Podpress includes size and duration, adds iTunes tags, and shows download counts, it is filled with compatibility problems with WordPress. It seems every time WordPress updates to a new version, PodPress breaks. Lately PodPress has failed to work entirely, despite supposed compatibility.

![mp3-o-matic player](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/newmp3player1.png)I switched to a different mp3 player ([mp3-0-matic](http://darkgiank.110mb.com/?page_id=4) -- see image on right). I had to go back through each podcast post on [Tech Writer Voices](https://idratherbewriting.com/) and add some

[Audio](https://idratherbewriting.com/2007/12/10/goodbye-podpress-its-time-for-a-new-mp3-player/tags%20around%20the%20audio%20as%20well%20as%20list%20the%20duration.%20It%20was%20seriously%20tedious.%20All%20the%20while%20I%20was%20thinking%20about%20writing%20this)