Release Date for Embedded Media Field

Posted by aaron on February 8, 2008 at 9:32pm

Alex UA and I have set the date for an official release for Embedded Media Field, for next Friday, February 15. We're going to quash as many of the outstanding bugs as possible before then, and could really use some help from interested people, as far as testing and patching things up.

Once the official version is released for d5, we'll also begin development for the d6 release.

See http://drupal.org/node/213456 for release status.

Thanks,
Aaron Winborn

Comments

Happy Tester

Posted by ron_mahon-gdo on February 9, 2008 at 2:34pm

I will be happy to help test this module.
I was unsuccessful in embedding Google Picasa file with it.
my work around was to use the body as a teaser field and insert Google code there

See it at http://groups.the-villages-online.com/side_show

Regards
Ron

Testing also

Posted by gusaus on March 25, 2008 at 9:04pm

I'm currently kicking several Embedded Media Field tires (video, photos, audio, import) and am particularly interested in integrating more audio such as Last.fm, Pandora, and others (this guy always has some interesting ones - http://avc.blogs.com/). Also wondering if 'Embedded Media Import' could import audio sets (playlists, albums, etc.) similar to how you can currently do w/ Flickr sets.

We're working on a band site right now (posting notes in this thread as we go - http://groups.drupal.org/node/5167) and the ideal would be to draw from external sources for ALL media. Would love to create some workshops (poss. some DROP tasks?) around ways we can incorporate this great module.

Gus Austin
PepperAlley Productions

Gus Austin

Yes, yes, and yes! I'd love

Posted by aaron on March 26, 2008 at 3:14pm

Yes, yes, and yes! I'd love for the module to support more audio -- audio's been the forgotten stepchild of drupal multimedia, but that's quickly changing. DROP tasks are a great way to get this in better shape.

Aaron Winborn
Advomatic, Web Design for Progressive Advocacy, Grassroots Movements, and Really Cool Causes

Aaron Winborn
Drupal Multimedia (my book, available now!)
AaronWinborn.com
Advomatic

FeedAPI/FeedAPI Mapper for Importing Sets

Posted by alex ua on March 26, 2008 at 8:10pm

As of two weeks ago FeedAPI Mapper comes packaged with a Video CCK mapper, which allows you to pull in feeds and map them to embedded media fields (see here for a small example: http://zivtech.com/feed-item/539 ) .

For the playlists and albums, I think the XSPF Playlist module is the best bet. The question here is how to handle the metadata, which is an issue that a few people are working on right now...

Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
ZivTech: Illuminating Technology

XSPF support

Posted by arthurf on March 26, 2008 at 9:42pm

Right now, XSPF Playlist is just building playlists off data that is defined from nodes. It shouldn't be hard for me to create an option to save an XSPF file in the db for retrieval- potentially, I see a mapper for FeedAPI that takes XSPF playlists and then saves them.

Would people be interested in this? Is the standard widely enough deployed that it makes sense to do so? Obviously it improves media handling over rss....

http://24b6.net

XSPF love

Posted by charliecheney on March 27, 2008 at 2:46am

Yes, this sounds very cool to save lists in the DB... but I'd think 6.x support would be even groovier...
:-)

XSPF and Drupal 6

Posted by arthurf on March 27, 2008 at 12:11pm

I'd love to start supporting Drupal 6 in XSPF, of course there is a "but". The problem is that the main work that I see needing to take place is better views integration. And to do this, I'd really like to wait for Views 2 to be stable so that I don't need to redo that work- I'd rather just push that functionality when Views is ready. So now we've got a big long chain of dependencies.

That being said, I thing the port to D6 should not be that hard. If there is community support for it, I'll add it to my todo list.

I think another feature I'd like to see is an aggregator of playlists as well.

http://24b6.net

Community support

Posted by gusaus on April 22, 2008 at 5:26am

I added this to the list of potential ways to integrate external audio:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/10894

Really think this functionality would open up loads of possibilities and would love to help generate some support for this any streamlined audio solution. What can we do?

Gus Austin
PepperAlley Productions

Gus Austin

I do love this module. If

Posted by kellyharding@drupal.org (not verified) on April 18, 2008 at 7:45am

I do love this module. If iPhoto* import support could somehow be hadded to the import functionality it'd be great. Flickr has the problem of yahoo's TOS.

The rest of it works great for me :)

*or any other similar product such as Picassa