By marlowx on

I am in a rock band and i need to be able to send large audio files back and forth between people and keep track of them...

i know in theory one can modify a php.ini file to raise the limit of file uploads from 7mb but will it really work?

i am using Dreamhost which so far has been ok...

any other issues i need to be aware of?

is it practical to do this all within Drupal or should i use a combination of drupal and YouSendIt or similar solution?

thanks in advance!

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marlowx commented

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/PHP.ini

but as i am not an expert computer person i am a bit cautious and want to check with you guys that this is possible and been done before...

the file sizes i would be dealing with are as big others have been discussing... mine would be between 10mb and 50mb or so...

basically songs that i need to send back and forth between people to work on...

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hershel commented

I have not done this and I can't say if it will work or not but I can say that 50MB sounds like it may be too big to load via HTTP--it's just prone to error with such sizes. It might work, however. See here http://drupal.org/node/97193

You can certainly try and see anyhow.

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marlowx commented

have you seen http://Soundcloud.com ?

they let people upload huge audio files via web browser... is this what you mean by using HTTP?

the reason i want to do it using drupal on my site is that i can keep certain information together and track it....

but maybe i should just integrate with a 3rd party like yousendit.com etc etc?

thanks,
gerard

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escoles commented

Outfits like SoundCloud, box.net, etc. use either AJAX or Flash to transfer the files.

the SWFUpload module might work to address the HTTP limitation -- but the last time I looked at the documentation, they didn't address that at all, really. (Said it had originally been a goal of the project, but didn't say if it had been achieved/abandoned.) So you'd have to test.

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markpoe commented

I had the same problem and I found that the best service to do that is http://www.cincopa.com/MediaSend/start.aspx, up to 300MB it's free so you won't have a problem with your 30MB. and it is the best service when it comes to audio and video.

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wavepoint commented

You might also want to consider something like Dropbox. This works really well.