I've been thinking a lot about Podcasting recently and set up iPodder on my PC. I think podcasting is an important part of a shift in the distribution of content.

I regularly listen to Coverville which I get as Podcast.

So, the question comes up, can you use Drupal for Podcasting.

This site is based on Drupal 4.4. I've set up a few other sites based on Civicspace 0.8.

This evening, after spending too much time trying to dig out of the email that has been piling up in my inbox, I decided to relax and do a little coding.

So, I have now written a patch for the upload module of CivicSpace that makes it possible to Podcast uploaded files. It currently works for CivicSpace 0.8. Since CivicSpace 0.8 is essentially a customized version of Drupal 4.5, I suspect it should work for Drupal 4.5 as well, although I haven't tested it there.

I guess I'm going to have to get around to updating this site sometime soon.

You can grab the patch at upload.patch and the whole module at upload.module.

It turned out to only be about a dozen new lines of code. It reinforces my opinion of Drupal as a great system to work with if you want to do a bunch of interesting extentions.

If you use my patch, drop me a line and let me know how it goes, especially if you are putting up some interesting podcasts.