Hi Colin, As I mentioned before over at playlist it would be cool to have an M3U link (and other streaming formats) on a per-audio (per song) basis.

Thanks for a cool module!

--Neil

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#6 playlist.patch2.48 KBShavenYak

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Colin Brumelle commented
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Hi,

Neat idea, but I was wondering if you could clarify a bit. When would you want to have an m3u file for an individual audio track instead of a link to the file -> open with -> iTunes? Also, you can create a playlist with just one file in it, but I guess that is an extra step.

Perhaps you can give me some use cases for this?

C

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ohzbees commented

Well...Maybe it's a little weird to stream only one file. But I'm an impatient person and I like to go around clicking on a bunch of different links and immediately begin hearing a particular tune without having to wait for it to download or do any fancy decision making. I'm not sure others agree but I don't really want all these downloaded mp3's building up in my home directory. I've had problems with the Flash stuff and it just seems like an unecessary step when basic m3u streaming works so well. And some people might not have flash for their browser (yes I am a Unix head). I think a lot of people would like to hear a single song in a playlist instead of the whole shebang? Allowing for the m3u streaming of single files seems like the solution.

Finally: I'm a fan of giving people lots of options (which can always be made optional :).

BTW: I and most users of my website will primarily use Linux which does not have native iTunes. We tend to use Winamp clones such as XMMS or beep-media-player, which take m3u streams.

--Neil

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zirafa commented

Perhaps the streaming options should be moved to administer >> settings >> audio. That way the user can choose what type of streaming outputs can be enabled (flash, m3u, other).

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ohzbees commented

+1 Yes. I like that idea of setting the streaming types as options.

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Colin Brumelle commented

It's a good idea to make a setting for this so people can choose the streaming type that they want. I'll add this soon...

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ShavenYak commented
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new playlist.patch2.48 KB

Since playlist.module already has this basic functionality, I patched it to work for a single audio node as well as a playlist. That may not be an approach that appeals to everyone, but I thought I'd throw it out there as another option.

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drewish commented

does it make sense to just have this as part of the playlist module? could we put it into a audio/contrib module?

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drewish commented

actually i'm seeing the wisdom of this. if the file is an mp3 and can't be played with the flash player, we could point the link link to something that would just create a .m3u for the node. they click on that and it plays in winamp or whatever rather than forcing them to download the file.

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drewish commented
Status: Active » Fixed

i think you can use the playlist module to take care of this.

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Title: M3U link for each audio node » Playlist link for each audio node
Component: User interface » contrib
Status: Fixed » Needs work

By referring to http://drupal.org/node/85103 I think there is a greater demand for this. With a dependency to playlist.module, audio.module should be able to provide automatically generated playlists for just one audio node that are offered as feed links in the audio node. Available formats should depend on playlist module settings.

We don't like hacking additional functionality into audio module, so this should live in a contrib module for audio. Patch in #6 may be a basic approach for that.

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leoburd commented

Sorry, but I'm not sure I understood what you are trying to do... I'm looking for a way to generate a playlist for all the audio files of a specific user/taxonomy term. I'm not interested in the one playlist per node idea... Does that make sense?

Thanks in advance,

.L.

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drewish commented
Status: Needs work » Fixed

the audio_feeds should take care of this now.

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)
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