Drupal is a great content management framework for building an online media publishing platform. And usually it just requires another contributed module to add extra functionality.
Very successful shows like Serial Podcast from the makers of This American Life, chose to build their website with Drupal 7. But there isn’t one tried and tested turn-key module for publishing podcasts, that then work well out of the box, with podcast aggregators like Apple iTunes.
This presentation will look at one essential module that can be the keystone for building and configuring a podcasting platform.
Some alternative platforms will be compared and one hybrid combination will be shared.
This presentation is aimed at publishers. No prior knowledge of Drupal is required.
Update
Thank you to everyone that came to the Drupal Open Days 2015, especially to everyone that asked questions and offered insights. Below are links from this presentation, with some additional links following from questions during and after it. Hope these links help, please ensure that that any app or module is suitable before installing on your system.
References
http://www.serialpodcast.org
http://www.guides.ie
http://www.strangebirdlabs.com
http://www.thewebahead.net
http://www.karenmcgrane.com
http://www.abookapart.com/products/content-strategy-for-mobile
http://www.castfeedvalidator.com
http://www.vienna-rss.org
https://picard.musicbrainz.org
http://www.mediamonkey.com
http://www.buytaert.net
Modules
http://www.drupal.org/project/drupal
http://www.drupal.org/project/getid3
http://www.drupal.org/project/jplayer
http://www.drupal.org/project/media_soundcloud
http://www.drupal.org/project/mediaelement
http://www.drupal.org/project/views_rss_itunes
Articles, videos & blog posts
http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html
http://www.chenhuijing.com/blog/drupal-101-generating-itunes-rss/
http://www.thewebahead.net/95
http://www.ostraining.com/courses/class/drupal/podcasting/
http://blog.breadncup.com/2013/03/31/how-to-make-a-podcasts-in-itunes/
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/18/serial-podcast-itunes-apple-downloads-streams
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/mar/22/dana-chivvis-serial-interview-adnan-syed
http://source.opennews.org/en-US/learning/audio-browser/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/production/radio
The result
https://itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/mckennas-guides-podcast/id996590495
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