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Drupal 7 Media

You're reading from   Drupal 7 Media Integrate, implement, and extend rich media resources such as images, videos, and audio on your Drupal 7 website with this book and ebook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516082
Length 260 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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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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