I have been using D7 for about 1.5 years and have never been able to to get Media to actually display the media I link to from 3rd parties. I am a musician Drupal User, not a developer and am confused by the media module. The most success I have had is getting the module to output the title of a media Item I put in it as a link. I am using Media 1.2 along with the Youtube, Flickr and Soundcloud add-ons (all v1.2) MediaFront 2.0 rc3 and mplayer 2.0rc3 When I place the link or embed code in the media browser I get the title and a broken image along with the links to "select media" or "remove media" Saving the node puts a link at the bottom of the page to the media in question. When I "manage display" of the media field anything besides the default does not result in even the link being displayed. For comparison, images added to nodes using the file browser work fine. Is there comprehensive instructions for using the media module? I am willing to uninstall and start from scratch because I won't be losing anything.
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Hey Graham, This might help a
Hey Graham,
This might help a bit:
http://www.ostraining.com/blog/drupal/media-field/
More documentation is available here:
http://drupal.org/documentation/modules/media
http://groups.drupal.org/node/168009
For Youtube use the media_youtube 7.x > 2.x <. First try to install media and media_youtube, and see if you can get it to work with only these 2 modules, then install others.
And join IRC if you still can't get it to work, got lots of people willing to help out.
Thanks Rob. Somehow I seemed
Thanks Rob.
Somehow I seemed to have had multiple copies of file_entity. I'm pretty sure my problem stemmed from this. I simply wasn't able to access the admin "file type" settings. I have it working as best as it seems to be able to now. Using the Media 2.0 and the dev versions of youtube, soundcloud and flickr I can add my 3rd party media to my site.
I am now curious about views with both media and nodes in them. Where is a good place to learn about implementing that?