By drinkingsouls on
Okay, I have searched the forums and there have been many threads about this but they all seem to be somewhat out of date. I have also browsed the module section and cant seem to find what I want.
Im looking for some sort of module that allows you to upload an audio file (whatever format) and generates a simple player so it can be listened to on my site. I dont mind what its written in but it will need to be compatible with Drupal 6.x
Does anybody know where I could find this?
Thanks,
Chris
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A patch for the audio.module for drupal 6 has just been posted so there should be a dev release of that module soon.
Is there a specific reason you are using Drupal 6 by the way? It's still a good bit away from having the same amount of modules available to it that Drupal 5.x does.
Hey, thanks for the
Hey, thanks for the reply.
Is that the only mod there is for drupal 6? Does the script not come with any sort of mp3 player?.
I am only using drupal 6 because it was the newest so I thought it would be the most featured and less buggy.
Would you advise using a different version? If so what?, drupal 5?.
Thanks
> I am only using drupal 6
> I am only using drupal 6 because it was the newest so I thought it would be the most featured
It has the most featured CORE, but much less modules. Further, most of the modules which have
been re-written for v6.x are still in alpha or beta - they haven't been tested or fixed as much as
the v5.x modules have.
> and less buggy
It must surely have more bugs than v5.x because it is new and hasn't been tested or fixed as much.
As I understand it, unless the intended website is quite basic, most people are sticking with v5.x.
I'm a noob, but I'm going to start with 6.x, only because:
- The 2 most important modules (CCK and views) have been updated already (although still in beta stage)
- by the time I've figured Drupal out (in six months), other modules will have then been updated.
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I think it's best to stick with Drupal 5.x to be honest. Particularly for a production/live site.
The lack of contributed modules being upgraded suggests that the module developers aren't using Drupal 6 (otherwise they would have upgraded their modules already for their own sites) and big fixes/issues/security problems don't get spotted unless a lot of people are using it.
On the top of music for drupal sites. Can I recommend the following discussion/wiki page?
http://groups.drupal.org/node%252F5167
it's a discussion centred around using Drupal 5.,x for music sites...which modules to use for which elements and so on..
And yes..the audio.module comes with a choice of a few mp3players....
Hey, thanks, Ill try setup
Hey, thanks, Ill try setup an older version and see if the modules are any better.
Do you reccommend version 5.x? I can only find version 5.7.
Thanks
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5.x is shorthand for the latest version of version 5. as of today..5.7 is the latestversion. and yep, i would recommend it. A lot of people have been using it on live sites for quite a while, so it's extremely well tested and there are a lot of modules available for it.
follow the audio.module instructions carefully when installing...you have to download a special MP3 tag reader called getid3 which automatically reads the audio file tags (song name,album,artist, length etc.) as you're uploading.
When you install the audio.module there is an add-on module called AUDIO ATTACH, which allows you to attach audio files to blog posts and nodes. As I said earlier, there are three different mp3 players that come with the audio.module so you can play around with the settings to pick which ever one you prefer.
Hey, Im a bit confused as to
Hey, Im a bit confused as to where this audio mod is. I visited that wiki group page but I dont see any download link at all.
Is the project still in progress?
Thanks
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version5: http://drupal.org/project/audio
version 6 patch: http://drupal.org/node/211587
however...I would tend to recommend using Drupal version 5 drinkingsouls and wait until the patch for drupal 6 has been tested and approved.