Book Image

Drupal Multimedia

Book Image

Drupal Multimedia

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Chapter 10. Theming Audio

At first thought, it might seem as though there is little, if any, need for a themer to do anything with an audio clip. However, as we learned in the prior chapters, there are many solutions for audio with Drupal and there are also many different ways to display audio content within a site.

For this chapter, we'll examine three ways to theme/re-theme our audio. First, we'll embed a node-referenced clip within a view of article titles. Then, we'll display a player that will play a list of clips using jQuery to synchronize a display of links with the player. Finally, we'll create user-customized playlists that can be embedded in other sites.

These techniques were recently used in the redeployment of Air America Radio's site at http://airamerica.com/, where you can see live examples:

Node Referenced Clips

As has been explored with Images and Video, Node Reference can be a powerful module for including content within content. For instance, you might have a news site where...