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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)

Leveraging audio metadata


With regards to audio, metadata has long been a useful addition which was directly associated with MP3 audio files. Back then, the MP3 format was heavily used to store audio files but it lacked a way to describe the file's content. Information such as artist name, track title, album name, year of release, and genre, are powerful assets which allow users to organize and structure their music collection. It's not just about organizing but also about providing basic data. While it's possible to name an MP3 audio file using the <artist name>-<song name>.mp3 convention, which is actually the widely used format, it's not really efficient.

ID3

With this problem among the community, came rise of the ID3 standard as a way to attach metadata to MP3 files, enabling users to tag their files, and describe their audio tracks using dedicated fields.

Note

You can find more information on ID3 tags at http://id3.org, http://getid3.sourceforge.net, and http://en.wikipedia...