Integrate with the iTunes module?
drewish - December 24, 2008 - 20:42
| Project: | FileField Podcaster |
| Version: | 6.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | task |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | mfer |
| Status: | active |
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Description
I wanted to let you know that I'd moved the audio_itunes module from the audio module into its own project. It provides most of the channel and item level elements the big exception being the enclousure, itunes:duration and itunes:author elements. It's pretty agnostic where those come from and it seems like it might be able to fit into the ffpc stack in a way that keeps it re-usable.
I just wanted to throw that out there and see if you had any thoughts. If you're interested in becoming a co-maintainer please let me know.
#1
I'll take a look into this... on the todo list.
#2
the itunes module is now able to outputs enclosure tags for filefields. it makes for a pretty simple way of building feeds now.
#3
It's a bit a shame to have these two modules because there's quite some duplication. I'm not ranting at all, the 2 modules have different stories and have evolved to what they are now. But maybe a merge could be done ?
The way I see it, they both have their own advantages :
- FFPC does a good job at guessing the itunes tags from the files metadata
- itunes does a good job by allowing the itunes tags to be customized for each node individually and for the view globally
Best regards,
Guix
#4
Which tags are those? I wonder if #480192: Add <itunes:keywords>, <itunes:author>, and <itunes:duration> elements. addresses them...
#5
Not when I was writing the comment, but you are quick ;)
Indeed duration is now here and hopefully others are to come.
However I have a concern with relying on files metadata only (and that's why I prefer the itunes approach to FFPC's) : how easy is it to insert the metadata in the files... For my users I guess downloading a full blown editor for each file type (.flv, .mp4, .mp3, ...) would be asking too much. Or maybe there's an OS cross-platform metadata editor for the most common media file types ?