audio player in custom template

Hi there,

this is concerning the audio player plugin in a page that is included into a template with echo $page_data->post_content.

I am working on a multi-column theme, where in the first column I have the loop (the blog) and in the next three columns I display pages, so that a editor can edit each column as a single page.

In the third column there should be some audio, but only the audio player short code is displayed, while it works fine in the blog (1st column) and in the page as such. so the cause probably lies in how the page is included into the template:
i use the following code: echo $page_data->post_content

Is this the wrong way of doing it? Is there another (working) way of doing it?

I have tried to google solutions and also searched the wordpress forum for hours, but so far no luck. My uploads are in wp-content/uploads/ and this is also the default folder where audio player looks for audio files.

Thank you for answering!

Josef