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Drupal for Education and E-Learning

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Drupal for Education and E-Learning

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Drupal for Education and E-Learning
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Audio Module


The Audio module supports the playback of audio files that have been uploaded to your site. To install this module, we will also need to install two helper modules required by the Audio module: the getID3() and Token modules.

In this section, we will cover installing the Audio module, as well as the getID3() and Token modules.

Install the getID3() Module

Download the getID3() module from http://drupal.org/project/getid3, and upload it to your sites/all/modules directory, as described in Chapter 3.

Do not, however, enable the module, as we need to install an additional piece of code described as follows:

Install the getID3() Libraries

The getID3() libraries are a tool that automatically extract information about audio files. These libraries don't require you to do any additional work; rather, they detect information that can be used by the Audio module.

Download the getID3() libraries from http://getid3.sourceforge.net/. Unzip these libraries onto your hard drive.

Note

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