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How To Create A Podcast Using Drupal
What is a podcast?
Shared multimedia files over the internet for playback on a mobile device or personal computer.
How does a podacst work in Drupal?
Prerequisites:
1. Setup Drupal.
2. Enable the contributed Audio module with proper permissions setup.
3. Create a Page to describe your audio podcast. Create a "Menu link title" under the "Menu" section.
4. Enable the site block "Audio: Browse by" to the "Content top" area.
5. Under the "Page specific visibility settings" type the same name you used for the "Menu link title" on step 3 above.
6. Record your audio and save as an MP3 file.
How do I create a podcast?
1. Make sure the audio mp3 file is on your local computer or accessable from a local drive (such as cd or thumb drive).
2. Take note of the file length and name.
3. Login with an editor or site administrator account.
4. Go to Content management > Create content > Audio (or click Create Content from the navigation menu, if enabled).
5. If just showing the title of the audio, edit the title from "[audio-tag-title-raw] by [audio-tag-artist-raw]" to display just "[audio-tag-title-raw]".
6. Under "Audio File Info", click the browse button under the "Add a new audio file:" section.
7. Click Save to upload. This will take some time to upload.
8. Preview and Save when done.
9. When the upload has finished, the page will refresh displaying the following error message: "warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/lighthouse/www/www/drupal/sites/all/modules/audio/audio.module on line 558." and the message "Audio [audio-tag-title-raw] has been created."
10. To satisfy the error message you need to create the audio metadata for use in the title. Click Edit.
11. Under "Audio Metadata", complete the following fields: Title (such as "This Podcoast"), By (who the recording is by), Recorded (in format YEAR/MONTH/DAY such as 2000/12/31), Year (four digits)
12. Under "Audio File Info", complete the following fields: Format (choose MP3), Length (minutes and seconds such as 40:25), Sample rate (44,100 Hz)
13. Under "URL path setting", tyoe the title in lower case letter and replace spaces with underscores such as "this_podcoast_title".
14. Click Save. You are done.