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Drupal 7 Media

Drupal 7 Media - Third Edition

By : Liran Tal
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Drupal 7 Media

Drupal 7 Media

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By: Liran Tal

Overview of this book

Integrating images, video, and audio content on a Drupal site requires knowledge of appropriate community modules, and an understanding of how to configure and connect them properly. With the power of up-to-date technologies such as HTML5, responsive web design, and the best modules available in Drupal's eco-system, we can create the best Drupal 7 media website. Drupal 7 Media is a practical, hands-on guide that will introduce you to the basic structure of a Drupal site and guide you through the integration of images, videos, and audio content. Learn to leverage the most suitable community modules and up-to-date technology such as HTML5 to offer a great user experience through rich media content. The book begins with a practical introduction to the basic Drupal building blocks. It then breaks down each media resource, and explores them in detail. You will learn how to leverage Drupal's community modules to implement support for images, videos, and audio content, along with the best practices for implementation. We will be mentioning ideas throughout the book, which you can extend upon and use to build your own web applications. We will explore HTML5 support for media resources, the semantic web, and responsive web design, which are key topics in modern web application development. We will then build upon this knowledge and add more functionality to our sample website, such as support for analytic charts and customizing images, all of which we will implement using our own custom modules. You will learn everything you need to know about building, extending, and configuring a Drupal 7 media web application.
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Chapter 6. Audio Capabilities

While the web has been growing in regards to the amount of visual content, in the form of pictures and movies of all sorts, audio content is under-estimated.

Music streaming has been quietly preserving it's spot on the web, such as Internet radio stations or social networks such as SoundCloud, which enable users to share their own music and collaborate with one another.

In this chapter we will cover:

  • Adding playable audio fields

  • Using media libraries such as MediaElement to play audio

  • Understanding HTML5 Audio element and making use of the audio JavaScript API

  • Learning about the ID3 standard for audio files metadata and how to make use of this to enrich information on MP3 audio file uploads

  • Leveraging ID3 metadata to persist MP3 audio file in Drupal fields storage by creating your own custom module

We have previously known music around the Internet with the long-living MP3 format, which is used for distributing audio content among peers. It has evolved due to the need...

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