Help building music page? Player and Playlists [#1021906]

I have started to build a drupal music site and i have spent so much time trying to figure what modules to use. I considered the unstable "Audio" module but decided since it is not updated. I want my users (local artists) to be able to upload their music and sometimes a whole album (which will include album art, lyrics). And then display a discography page like this MyPlay heavenly goodness here --> http://myplay.com/music/david-cook/david-cook

So far:
I have created 3 content types:
-Artist (with content profile)
-Album: [reference_artist]
-Audio: [reference_album], FileField for uploading audio

Now I have uploaded a few tracks to an album owned by an Artist. Now, I have started researching Players/Playlists modules to use in displaying the music uploaded so that when you are on the Artist's page and click on a track, it popups something similar to this (no music purchasing yet) --> http://myplay.com/music/david-cook/david-cook. I know most of that View is done with "Views" and I know I am still far from my destination now and still taking baby steps in this media thing..., especially getting the player/playlist thing to work before worrying about organizing the page. I have been reading this XSPF-Playlist module and also the SWF Tools module - and I am still very lost and don't even know if they are the right modules for me.

So, I am hoping someone here can help me make my baby steps quicker by lending me a few minutes of their time to share their Recipe/Ideas with me. I realize there are many Modules and topics opened about this, none actually provide a way to get this done other than "maybe(s)" and "what if(s)", so I pray this brings me or someone in my same dilemma some results. I will be forever thankful to you for any help you provide and will owe you a great deal. Please help me.

Comments

Comment #1

jumoke commented 10 January 2011 at 21:07

If you will like to login to my site, I can send you login details if you enable your contact page on your profile please. Thank you

Comment #3

arthurf commented 11 January 2011 at 13:59

Issue tags:

+fds@yahoo.com

Out of the gate, xspf_playlist will not do this for you unfortunately. XSPF playlist is more of an API module with support for a few basic drupal modules. I have been meaning to extend the CCK support to allow naming of arbitrary fields as xspf_data but unfortunately I simply haven't had time.

I think the mechanism for implementing this would be to create an admin interface for the xspf cck stuff that allows you to map cck fields to xspf fields with a text field to cck mapping. This would require an ahah form that would allow you to add additional xspf fields per cck field. I'll look into what kind of effort this would take.

Comment #4

jumoke commented 11 January 2011 at 23:52

Thanks Arthur. Though I posted under the XSPF module, I am open to other modules that can help get this done. I guess i have hit another dead-end here again. I'll post it on the forum, hopefully someone will have some ideas for me. And, I continue to search around...

Thanks again

Comment #5

arthurf commented 12 January 2011 at 01:00

I'm not saying you shouldn't use it, I'm just saying that at this moment it won't do what you want :)

I'm definitely up for addressing this, however my main focus right right now is getting media mover 2 out the door. After that I'll be more on the ball.

Comment #6

jyt commented 3 March 2011 at 06:28

Wow, I'd like to know how do to that also. Basically I used the Audio/audio image modules, and now i would like to set a menu with Music, that could bring me album listing with images, descriptions and audio files listing, unfortunetly right now all I have with the audio module is a display of each audio file, you can browse but there is no options of adding description and images to the sub menus.