Chapter 5. Drupal Audio in Flash
Within the past five years, there has been a major change in the type of content found on the World Wide Web. In just a few short years, content has evolved from being primarily text and images, into a multimedia experience! Drupal contributors have put much effort in making this integration with multimedia as easy as possible. However, one issue still remains: in order to present multimedia to your users, you cannot rely on Drupal alone. You must have another application layer to present that media. This is most typically a Flash application that allows the user to listen or watch that media from within their web browser. In the following chapters, we will cover all the necessary steps to integrate multimedia into our Drupal web site by building a custom Flash application that works seamlessly with Drupal multimedia, starting with audio content. Here is what we will learn in this chapter:
Working with audio in Drupal
Building a custom audio player for Drupal...