Instead of requiring a File field which requires a file upload, support a Text field containing a URL or URL Content Field (http://drupal.org/project/urlcontentfield) or some other formatted URL solution. This would allow for remote media storage (like Amazon S3 or Dropbox) or for providing a player for audio that already exists on the web.

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kokaku’s picture

kokaku commented
Title: Support URL » Add support for URLs
wheatpenny’s picture

wheatpenny commented

kokaku: If the default YouTube player is ok for you, your request could be solved by the Media module. Would that help?

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kokaku commented

I was hoping to use jplayer because it's not associated with any 3rd-party and i only need a simple HTML5 player for MP3s, but I will also look into what the Media module provides.

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kim_charest commented

Hi!

As anyone found a solution for this? I simply want to create a playlist from a view that plays audio files based on external mp3 URLs.

Thanks a lot!

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lunk rat commented

I'm achieving this very nicely with Media 7.x-2.x-dev, Remote stream wrapper, and jplayer. You can add remote URLs to any audio or video file and they render in jplayer without ever touching your server! I am using it to embed song clips directly from iTunes servers.

Hope this helps.

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deviantintegral commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

This looks to be a duplicate of #1276078: streaming a radio mp3....

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ionmedia commented

i need the same as #5 for playing streams (audio and video), but after adding to media browser url of stream http://listen.radionomy.com/abc-lounge.m3u player not working

here field devel

field_station_stream (Array, 1 element)
und (Array, 1 element)
0 (Array, 12 elements)
fid (String, 2 characters ) 18
display (String, 1 characters ) 1
description (NULL)
uid (String, 1 characters ) 1
filename (String, 14 characters ) abc-lounge.m3u
uri (String, 42 characters ) http://listen.radionomy.com/abc-lounge.m3u
filemime (String, 15 characters ) audio/x-mpegurl
filesize (String, 3 characters ) 200
status (String, 1 characters ) 1
timestamp (String, 10 characters ) 1352382809
type (String, 9 characters ) undefined
rdf_mapping (Array, 0 elements)

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ionmedia commented
Issue summary: View changes

Clarifying the URL field idea