Our site is related to audio, yet we have no facility for playing audio here. Coders can insert code, photographers can insert photos, but we just link to audio files.
It seems that it would be easy enough to insert a player like the standalone version of WordPress Audio Player or one of the many other flash-based players available.
I think the problem we're going to have is not the player itself but storage of the files.
We currently only have the ability to upload images, I think we might need to find out if we can have some form of upload for audio, if we impose strict limits on file size (which I think is needed both to make storage less of an issue and to encourage specifity for questions).
This is now implemented as far as possible. A generic "play any file anyone could link to" is impossible (see this answer on Meta.SO for the reasons), but we now support SoundCloud-hosted audio tracks. A link to such a track will automatically be turned into a player:
https://soundcloud.com/stack-exchange/stack-exchange-podcast-63-the-plumbers-up-to-67-coins
I disagree with this request if "own hosting" is not an option. Hotlinking often results in a high amount of dead links, which is a pain to look at, especially on a Q&A site. I have no alternative proposal, but we should really avoid questions and answers that are worthless without the audio that is accompanied with it.
