Audio Assistance

Posted by uksnowy on August 13, 2009 at 10:28am

I thought that I would join the group as it looks like a good source of infomation regarding audio and Drupal.

I am currnetly setting up a music based website using Drupal and the Audio module, however, I am having a few issues that I would like some help with and I'm confident that the help I need is buried deep inside this group's combined intelligence.

Now, before I fill this page with my problems and needs, I want to know if this is the correct place to do so. Are we allowd to request help here or is there a better route?

Snowy.

Comments

This group is a good place

Posted by zirafa on August 14, 2009 at 12:04am

This group is a good place to hash out general ideas and talk/work out solutions and problems - but for specific bugs and support requests, you will probably have better luck filing and searching issues with the module directly, i.e.

http://drupal.org/project/audio

I'd give that a shot first if you are having trouble installing and configuring the module, and then try here if you have no luck or if the question is too broad for the support/issue queue.

Thank you for your reply My

Posted by uksnowy on August 14, 2009 at 5:26am

Thank you for your reply

My issues are more to do with how to do stuff than bugs etc. For example, how to get a collection/album of tracks on a node or page?

Views + audio

Posted by fgm@drupal.org on August 16, 2009 at 7:21am

For this Views can help a lot if you're not into coding. Just build a "node" View, filter on published or admin + type = audio and filter or group on album/collection. Sort by track. Add a Page display and choose the path where you want it to appear.

For extra points :-) add an argument to the View to choose the album or collection and use that argument for the album/collection filter instead of hardcoding it in the filters box. You now have one page for each of your albums/collections.

Thanks. I do use views to

Posted by uksnowy on August 24, 2009 at 9:33pm

Thanks.

I do use views to construct my pages, so I am kind of familiar with it, although no expert. Will the methos you describe provide a node that has one media player and a playlist of the album tracks?

This is where I am stuck. I can successfuly create audio pages/nodes that have a media player play one track. Easy peasy. But how do I get a player to play a list of tracks?

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Posted by beautifulmind on August 17, 2009 at 9:36am

I would suggest that, instead of posting separate topic, just post all your queries/issues/problems here.
This will server duel purposes
1) People will know that such issues can occur.
2) People will also know how to deal with them.

Regards.

:)
Beautifulmind

BeautifulMind

Hello

Posted by mediaformat on August 21, 2009 at 1:38am

Hi all,

The site I'm currently working on is a personal site, with one artist who has a couple of cds.
So no need for visitors/clients to become members...

I've been playing around with E-commerce and various sub-modules, and quickfile.
Anyhow once I've succeeded I'll post some instructions, as one ca easily get lost in debugging and the many dead-end issues and forum posts.

If anyone here has already succeeded with quickfile or ecommerce I'd love to read how you did it.

Cheers

Audio installation issues

Posted by MickC on April 16, 2010 at 4:38pm

Hi all - really struggling to get players to work.

Audio module is in, but when I go to the audio page, I see the audio files listed but the players don't appear.
My understanding is that the module installs 4 players, which I can see in the players folder.
I can select them in the admin, but they do not appear in the UI.

Has anyone else had this issue?
Are you guys using the Audio module, or CCK Audio?
Did you install the players independently of the module?

*uksnowy really like your website and how you've got the players in with each track. Very slick.

Thanks,

Mick

Not sure what the deal is with your players

Posted by ExJx on April 16, 2010 at 5:37pm

There is a better way to implement audio on your drupal site. This is what I was able to do with a lot of help from dublin drupaller and also this thread will help tremendously. http://groups.drupal.org/node/19309.

Check out what I was able to do with all of that. http://21-7inc.com/tby/discography

Hope all of that helps. By the way you do not have to use the discography view if you just want to add music to your site. Also If you have trouble getting the player that dublin has you install then give me shout. I used a different player all to together and a custom template for the release node. I will have to look back and see how I did it. I've done so much on this site since then.

In my opinion it will be much

Posted by zirafa on April 17, 2010 at 1:59am

In my opinion it will be much more straightforward to use CCK Filefield and then format the field using a module similar to the ones I've listed below:

http://drupal.org/project/soundmanager2
http://drupal.org/project/mp3player

I'd definitely consider not using the audio module as it will not likely be supported in its current state. CCK has taken over and offers greater granularity and ease of configuration.

Up and running

Posted by MickC on April 17, 2010 at 1:41pm

Cool - thanks for the tips. I just got Audiofield going on one of my dev sites - pretty easy actually.
(Might have been something wrong the other site - was getting an error trying to add a file field).
I can see how this works well for artist sites, and easy to self administer / upload tracks.

One thing I'll need to consider is voting using fivestar for individual tracks - I can only see how this works with nodes, not CCK fields.
Maybe later need to create a content type audio, add audio field limited to 1 entry.

Discography looks nice, but again not sure how voting on individual tracks could work.

Comments welcome.