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...
