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Drupal 7 Media - Third Edition

By : Liran Tal
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Drupal 7 Media - Third Edition

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.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Customizing audio nodes


Let's break-out from the common module usage of audio player widgets and their configurations and customize the node view for a couple of use cases which can definitely evolve to complete web and mobile apps, if you really put your mind to it.

We will leverage HTML5 Audio field, along with some JavaScript code to manipulate the audio playback, and tie this into the node view rendering within Drupal.

Aiming for multi-channel playback

When music is recorded, each instrument is placed in it's own channel, forming a layered and isolated instance for each one. This can then be used for easily adding or deleting instruments later on when processing the song, or possibly modifying a single channel's sound during the song, without affecting everything else. This is very similar to how drawings are often sketched in layers.

Imagine if we could create a sort of multi-channel player web application where musicians could upload their tracks, each channel of recording in it's own...