Sound Management

The Sound Management module aims to provide a framework for audio streaming sites.

The current version supports MP3 files and provides the following functionality:

• a Soundmanager2 Bar UI audio player block
• a media field formatter for content types, Commerce products, Views etc. that generates clickable track titles based on Mp3 filename that trigger playback.
  • Users can both upload new files and choose existing files from the media library
  • Tracks can be displayed in an numbered list for tracklist use cases
  • If there's multiple tracks on a piece of content a ‘play all’ link appears that plays the first track and queues up all tracks in the player.
• a CKeditor plugin allowing authors to highlight words and use them as playable links for the audio

Installation

• Install the module as any other module
• Download the SoundManager2 library from https://github.com/scottschiller/SoundManager2 to yourdomain.com/libraries/SoundManager2-master

Configuration

• Make sure you have a media type for audio
• Add the "Sound Manager" block to a region
• How to create a play link from a field:
  • add field to content type
  • display field as SM
  • add mp3(s) to node
• How to create play link from CKeditor:
  • Create a text format and assign CKeditor at /admin/config/content/format
  • Drag the notation icon to the active toolbar
  • Use text format on text field in a node
  • When creating node content, highlight the word you want to use as a play link
  • Click the notation icon to select which audio file to play when clicking the word selected in the previous step
• Click field title and/or CKeditor play link to play audio

Roadmap

We plan to steer the development in the direction defined in this issue.