West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church Media

This tutorial is specific to West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church's podcast settings, but may be useful to others who are also using Drupal to manage their website's content. All the software used in this tutorial is freeware. WSUUCMedia.org is run on Drupal 5 with the Audio module installed and we are using Audiograbber to create the MP3s from existing CDs of the services. If you haven't already installed Audiograbber, please see the software setup tutorial.

Feel free to print out this page for quick reference. For the long version, with explanations of why certain steps are taken and with some screenshots, click "previous" in the navigation at the bottom of tis page.

1. Start Audiograbber (Start->Programs->Audiograbber->Audiograbber)
2. Write down info from CD, then put the CD in the CD drive
3. "Year:" line - enter date of service in YYYY-MM-DD format
4. "Genre:" dropdown box, select "Speech"
5. "Artist:" line - type names of speakers in the service
6. "Album:" line - West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church
7. Click on "Track 1" then press F2. Type in the title of the service.
8. Click "Grab!" and go get a cup of coffee - process will take 5-20 min depending on the computer. It's done when the status screen goes away.
9. If you don't need to make any other MP3s, close Audiograbber, otherwise repeat steps 2-8 with the additional CDs.
10. Open the internet browser (Internet Explorer or other) and go to wsuucmedia.org
11. Log in using the office login
12. Click "Create content"
13. Click "Audio"
14. Under "Add new audio file:" click browse and go to "c:\podcasts", select the file with the date you just created, click "Open"
15. Scroll down and click "Submit". Go get another cup of coffee while the file uploads, a pink box will appear at the top of the section when it's done.
16. Optional: enter URL of musician or charity that the special offering went to (if applicable) in the "Body" field.
17. In "Audio Metadata" section, "Genre:" line type in "Speech",
18. Also in "Audio Metadata:, in "Service-type:" enter "Sunday-unedited"
19. Scroll down to "URL path settings" and click to expand section.
20. Type in the service date in YYYY-MM-DD format on the "URL path settings"
21. Click on "Authoring information" to expand that section.
22. "Authored on:" line - service date again in YYYY-MM-DD format, then "10:30:00 -0500" (without the quote marks, ie. 2007-02-04 10:30:00 -0500)
23. Click submit
24. You're done, unless you have more services to upload - if so, repeat steps 12-23 now. Thank you!