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By andymelton on
I am working on a podcast community website and am needing a way to create playable playlists. I've tried the playlist and audio modules, however, those seem to require the user to upload files before a playlist can be created. The users of this website host their media on external websites. We already have a feed with all of the users RSS feeds aggregated into it. How could we turn this into a playable playlist? Thanks!
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Downloaded playlist or Integrated Player
Are you looking to generate a playlist file that contains URLs (not file names) that can be downloaded? Or are you looking for a way to compile a playlist to feed to an integrated audio player (ilke the flash player on MySpace)?
If you're looking to generate downloadable playlists, you could write a module that parses out the ... portions of your feed.
-- White Raven
What I'm looking to do.
Sorry I haven't been able to reply to this post, my Internet connection has been down and it was Thanksgiving in the US. So, anyways. To answer your question I am wanting to generate a playlist from an RSS feed that will play files. Yes, sort of like MySpace does, but, we can't allow the users to upload the files to our server for a lack of space. They're also already hosting their files elsewhere.
Good Question!
I've been occassionally sniffing around this module myself trying to ascertain whether it allows a user to enter their podcast/mp3 details (hosted externally) and have this module add the details to a playlist (hosted on my site)... or even (better still), allow a musician to add their (externally hosted) song to an existing playlist (of other contributed songs).
I've not read anything specifically that say's, 'Yeah, it has that functionality': Can anyone shed some light on this?
Basically, we're just looking at allowing users to enter:
Song title
Composer
Genre
Copyright
URL (of song)
Mike
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Hopefully
Hopefully someone will be able to help us!
well needed i for one would
well needed i for one would love to see this.