Deprecated - Media and document management

Hi Bleu,

This is a recurring problem with Drupal. They actually create
non-standard RSS feeds. Here's the fix though:

Delete the following line from node_feed portion of node.module within
the module directory:

$output .= " Latin 1 for XHTML//EN\"
\"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-lat1.ent\">]>\n";

This successfully deletes the DOCTYPE line from the RSS Feed coming from
Drupal.

Im new to Drupal, nice. I would like some help if poss, importing an image using PHP into a block.

I have a php script that displays my adverts (with images) that when I call in a new block I get the text but no image. I have had a look about and it would appear calling images is not so clear, and I cannot find anything on dynamically calling images using PHP.

If anyone has a 123 guide / solution to this, please let me know. Im sure many have had this same problem b4.

My site

I have noticed, that the G2 gallery block presents the thumbnails correctly, but the target URL to the image is incorrect.

For example, the URL the block presents is:

http://www.raverx.org/gallery?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=6442&g2_GA...

(note: session ID made up on the spot)

whereas it should be:

Hi everyone,

I've been working at Bryght on a new drupal based service for recording artists and record labels. I know that there already is a comprehensive media module, but I just wanted a way to create simple audio nodes, leaving playlists and such to another module. And so, I give you the audio module.

The audio module lets authorized users upload, stream, and download audio files from their site. ID3 meta information (such as song title, artist, etc...) is read in from the audio file and updates made on the site are also written back to the ID3 tags in the file. Audio files show up with proper enclosure tags in RSS feeds, so this should be suitable for podcasting.

The module supports most common audio formats and presentation is controlled at the theme layer (see project documentation for more details). A default mp3 theme function is provided that uses the XSPF flash player to play audio within your site.

This is an alpha version, so there are probably some bugs floating around. If you see any problems, please let me know by submitting a bug report.

To do:
- support Yahoo media/iTunes RSS extensions

This continues a discussion started via email on the future of the media module.

1. The hook_file is still a good idea [1]. No matter how many X-node modules we add (image, mp3, Word document, etc.), there will always be two points of entry for a file because of the upload module, so finding a way to bring upload.module into the fold is a great beginning. If we could use the hook_file to create image nodes when people attach images to posts I bet Dries would commit the patch finally.
   
2. The approach the media module takes to storing metadata sucks because it tries to be everything to everyone.
   
3. ID3 is really great and there should be an ID3 API based on the hook_file that does nothing other than open up administration options for metadata collection (kindof like the media module does now, but better). It should not try to store the information.
   
4. There should be media handler node types for just about anything that anyone wants to use; mp3, ogg, mpeg4, avi, flv etc. The reason we need these node types is because we can then leverage the mime_registry.module to create dedicated nodes from the files that come in via upload.module, mail attachments or directory scans. Each of these dedicated modules would use the ID3 API to get metadata and would be individually responsible for storing metadata, as well as for presenting the media (outputing the right tags to make it play or stream).
   
   

   I don't necessisarily think that these node types need to be the main point of entry for files. I fully support the idea of letting them live in the background as shadow nodes created as the result of attaching files to blogs or pages. It just makes so much sense to be able to do nodey things to them (taxonomy, nodeapi). For example, when I attach an mp3 to my blog, I don't expect that it shows up on my blog as a Flash media player with all the ID3 information. But I would expect that if I fire up the rewritten img_assist module (now named file_assist or media_assist), that I could inline that mp3 in the current or any subsequent blog post because an mp3 node was created in the background. This will also aid searching for media.
   

5. Playlist module. It's clear that managing playlists is fun and cool, and we need a good way to handle them. The media module is almost to a good starting point; the update that I began and abandoned (in my sandbox) made some progress because it disabused people of the notion that they created a playlist node in order to upload files, which was the first big misconception (and a vote for Boris's conviction that people expect dedicated node types for individual file uploads).
   
   

   The playlist module is also the key to making Drupal a real podcasting platform as a playlist RSS is much better than just making an enclosure out of the first file attached to a node (useful but weak).

Hi all...,

Greets... ..
This is new member at the Drupal org discussion forum.
Anyone if know "How to upload audio/video files over the server..?"
then please do inform me at sudeep.palsule@suviinfo.com
I mean is there any specific module for the same....???

Regards......
sudeep (victor)
sudeep.palsule@suviinfo.com