I just came upon this module, looks (nearly) perfect for a site I'm in the middle of building. However... ;)
The site I'm working on is really an A/V index. We're not hosting all the files locally, just creating nodes and nice ways to search/filter/sort/feature etc. The actual audio files live elsewhere (for bandwidth/disk reasons), so my audio nodes use an emaudio field, not a filefield. It seems like it should still be possible to create a podcast feed of nodes with an emaudio field, right? I mean, technically, it shouldn't matter what path to the mp3 file is included in the XML for the feed. But, it doesn't look like there's any way to configure the itunes.module to know about emaudio fields for certain node types at admin/settings/itunes.
Seems like this should be relatively trivial to get working, right? I don't see any issues that mention emaudio currently in the queue -- I'm a bit surprised no one else is trying to do something like this. Is that because I don't understand something fundamental that's going to make my life miserable if I continue down this path? ;)
@drewish: Would you be willing to add such functionality and support both filefield and emaudio fields if I were to get this working? Are you at all available to help me get it working? ;)
Thanks!
-Derek
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 802968-1.itunes_emaudio.patch | 4.2 KB | dww |
Comments
Comment #1
dwwThis is definitely a 4am hack, but it's basically working. ;) If there's interest, I'll clean this up further and make it more commit-worthy. I'll also see if I can get any input from the emaudio folks about how to handle crap like filesize and duration if we don't have the file locally to work with...
Comment #2
drewish commentedThanks, committed to HEAD. Perhaps later I'll look at refactoring the element code into a plugin architecture but for now working code is fine ;)
Comment #3
dwwCool, thanks. ;) The admin UI probably still needs some help, but this is definitely a start. Want me to re-open this issue if I further clean up this functionality, or use new issues?
Cheers,
-Derek
Comment #4
drewish commentedNew issues are great. If you don't have anything coming let me know and I'll roll a new release with this.
Comment #5
dwwWell, I think the UI still talks about "FileField", even though it's now searching for both file fields + emaudio fields. So, it might be nice to clean that up before a new release. I don't immediately have any patches done that are on their way, and I'm not going to be able to work on this in the extremely near future. I'll definitely swing back at some point in the next few weeks, but for now, I'm dealing with other stuff. I'd also like to figure out a solution for #803710: Select author from a reference, not just a native field, but I don't know if that needs to block a release...
Thanks for checking in!
-Derek