Audio Feeds for Drupal 6
esbon - October 14, 2008 - 11:59
| Project: | Audio |
| Version: | 6.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | audio_feeds |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed |
Description
Hi, in the release notes for 6.x-1.0-unstable1, it's stated that the audio_itunes.module might be dropped from the 6.x release in favor of an enhanced audio_feed.module. Do you know if this is going to happen? and if so, will an enhanced audio_feed module use the same tables the current audio_itunes.module is using? Could you please explain a little more what the future of the audio_feed.module will look like.
So far the 6.x-1.0-unstable1 is working great.
Thanks!
#1
I've really not gotten too far down that road because I've been trying to stabilize the core audio module components and I'm still getting up to speed on every thing that views2 can do. I've got a feeling that views2 will make it very easy to provide good audio feeds but i haven't gotten there yet.
#2
I agree views 2 makes feeds a lot easier. Thanks for your reply. So far, the audio_feed.module is doing what we need it to do. I am looking forward to a stable release so I can deploy it on some more of our sites.
#3
good to hear. please keep testing it. i'm trying to fix bugs as their identified but i think i've scared off most of the users at this point and i'm not getting a ton of feedback--or else it's just working really well :p
#4
drewish, as a matter of fact I do. When I tried to submit the feed to Itunes, it complains about the short description and author tags not being present.
Thanks a lot!
#5
been looking at updating audio_feed and it doesn't look like an easy update because it does several things at the same time. it provides views feed support for the formats and also for audio_attach nodes. now that audio_attach is CCK nodereference based some parts might be easier. after looking at it i've got the current list of questions to answer:
Audio Attach Centric
- How can I get a view list nodes that are nodereferenced by a node with nid in an argument?
- Does this module have to depend on audio_attach? The current setup seems like it should.
View Style Centric
- What's an elegant way to let the user map fields from the view into the row display's style?
- Can we get a feed display class to hold some generic functions to abstract this.
Both
- Are the line endings on pls and m3u files are actually important?
- Will I be able to share templates for feeds between views and the audio_attach nodes?
#6
I'd be interested to know the position of the Audio module authors about Audio Feeds vs. XSPF Playlist. If Audio fields were well supported in XSPF Playlist (so far I did not have much success with this combination), would Audio Feeds still be useful?
#7
just for the sake of closure I should mention that audio_itunes got moved off to its own iTunes project where it's been enhanced to work with filefields.
if xspf playlist was a full replacement for audo feeds i'd be happy to point people that way but i'm not sure how many people were using the other playlist formats...
#8
Good point, supporting other playlist formats is valuable.
I have played a bit more with XSPF Playlist and found its D6 version a bit unfinished. Aside from that, I'm also finding that potentially combining Audio and XSPF Playlist would probably make setup more complicated than it ought to. So my idea now is to try making Audio Feeds work (at least for Audio Attach nodes, as I don't need the Views integration yet).
#9
This patch provides audio feeds by listing audio nodes found in nodereference fields.
#10
Cleaned up dependencies.
#11
sorry this got ignored for so long. looks pretty sane to me. going to commit this since at the very least it's got a lot of clean ups.
#12
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.