playlist in drupal

I was able to get Dub's "Discography" method working, according to the discussion in http://groups.drupal.org/node/19309 using Soundmanager. It requires patching and custom editing so it's hard to port, but it is the only solution I could find using Drupal 6. First I followed Dub's instructions using Drupal 6 and Garland theme to create the "release" content type used in his application. After testing this, I made the edits to support MY content type. Here are the comments in that thread that are most pertinent to deploying:

http://d69.dublindrupaller.com/discography (demo)

http://groups.drupal.org/node/19309#comment-97544 soundmanager license note

http://groups.drupal.org/node/19309#comment-74419
Note- FileFieldMeta and getID3 modules are not needed
create ‘release’ content type (apply snippet using use cck import facility, see http://groups.drupal.org/node/19309#comment-78415)

http://groups.drupal.org/node/19309#comment-78398

http://groups.drupal.org/node/19309#comment-78567 enabling theme

http://groups.drupal.org/node/19309#comment-96324 possible omission

cleared Drupal cache

created a node, uploaded 3 mp3’s, player and playlist working OK.

Now, to adapt this to MY content type:
        delete content type release
        import content type fanclub (containing "messages" field to replace "songs")
        create patch files as follows:
        rename
            from content-field-field_release_songs-release.tpl.php
            to content-field-field_fanclub_messages-fanclub.tpl.php

            from node-release.tpl.php
            to node-fanclub.tpl.php
        replace “release” -> “fanclub” and “songs”->”messages” in files
            content-field-field_fanclub_messages-fanclub.tpl.php
            node-fanclub.tpl.php
            discography.css

Whew!!!
Thanks Dub for all your work and advice!

I have looked at the example sites from this group's wiki and Im still baffled at what I might have to do to get playlists working in Drupal. I have tried MediaFront, SWFTools and just the Media module (which is what this group is about) and had OSM Player give me the best results, but still not satisfactory since Im stuck with the "loading" graphic.

Relevant link for album playlist in question: http://leopardspot.endofinternet.net:81/drupal6sandbox/node/4
Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu)
PHP version: 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.9
Drupal Version: 6.222

However, the only problem I have is that, when I go to the album, I see all the tracks listed under "child nodes" but the OSM player only shows the "loading" graphic both in the player view and on the playlist listing side of the player. Nothing ever plays and clicking "play" will not do anything. I have the preset set to "auto load" and it did not fix the problem.

NOTE: I am behind a mountain DSL connection so it might be slow to load. However, I was testing this page on my network here so I am doubtful that the DSL connection's speed is the problem