Recipe 64: Podcasting

Note

Ingredients

Audio: http://drupal.org/project/audio

Audio GetID3 (Packaged with audio module)

Path (Part of Drupal core)

Pathauto: http://drupal.org/project/pathauto

Token: http://drupal.org/project/token

Views RSS (Packaged with Views module)

getID3 library: http://getid3.org/

Unzip utility

The Audio module is the centerpiece of our podcasting recipe; The module creates a custom Audio content type and comes with a helpful default view. Our view enables website visitors to play audio play via a Flash player and offers a helpful podcast feed.

Setup

1. Download and untar the audio module to the usual <DRUPALROOT>/sites/all/modules location.

2. Be sure to read the INSTALL.txt found in the new lt;DRUPALROOT>/sites/all/modules/audio directory. Step 2 of this file is important (use the web site http://getid3.org to help locate the getID3 library at SourceForge.net).

   wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/getid3/getid3-1.7.9.zip?use_mirror=voxel
   unzip getid3-1.7.9.zip
   rm -r demos...