Embeds allowing bloggers to easily embed videos from Distrify. Just go to any Distrify film page or player and copy the URL. Paste that URL in any WordPress blog and it will automatically be converted to an embedded Distrify player. If you are logged in to distrify.com it will automatically add your affiliate tracking code to your embeds. Make sure you turn on Auto-embeds in your WP settings and also make sure that the URL is on its own line and not hyperlinked (clickable when viewing the post). The plugin also extracts the still image from the film and saves it as the Featured Image for the post. This actually works for any Embed (not just Distrify) that you embed into your WordPress blog.
Author: Distrify Limited
Version: 0.3.1
Author URI: http://www.distrify.com
License: GPL2
Copyright 2011-2013 Distrify (email : hello@distrify.com)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as
published by the Free Software Foundation.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*/
/**
* Does the work of adding the Distrify provider to wp_oembed
*/
function add_distrify_provider($the_content){
require_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-oembed.php' );
wp_oembed_add_provider('#https?://(www\.)?(distrify|muvies).com/films/.*#i', 'http://distrify.com/oembed.json', true );
wp_oembed_add_provider('http://muvi.es/*', 'http://distrify.com/oembed.json' );
wp_oembed_add_provider('#https?://.*\.muvies.com/.*reviews/.*#i', 'http://distrify.com/oembed.json', true );
}
//add the provider on plugins_loaded.
add_action('plugins_loaded', 'add_distrify_provider');
/**
* from http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/q/70752/1685
* Automatically set the featured image if an oEmbed-compatible embed is found in the post content.
* author: TheDeadMedic
* author URI: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/users/1685/thedeadmedic
*
*/
add_action( 'wp_insert_post', array( 'ofi', 'init' ) );
class ofi
{
/**
* The post thumbnail ID
*
* @var int
*/
private $_thumb_id;
/**
* The post ID
*
* @var int
*/
private $_post_id;
/**
* Sets up an instance if called statically, and attempts to set the featured
* image from an embed in the post content (if one has not already been set).
*
* @param int $post_id
* @return object|null
*/
public function init( $post_id )
{
if ( ! isset( $this ) )
return new ofi( $post_id );
global $wp_embed;
$this->_post_id = absint( $post_id );
if ( ! $this->_thumb_id = get_post_meta( $this->_post_id, '_thumbnail_id', true ) ) {
if ( $content = get_post_field( 'post_content', $this->_post_id, 'raw' ) ) {
add_filter( 'oembed_dataparse', array( $this, 'oembed_dataparse' ), 10, 3 );
$wp_embed->autoembed( $content );
remove_filter( 'oembed_dataparse', array( $this, 'oembed_dataparse' ), 10, 3 );
}
}
}
/**
* @see init()
*/
public function __construct( $post_id )
{
$this->init( $post_id );
}
/**
* Callback for the "oembed_dataparse" hook, which will fire on a successful
* response from the oEmbed provider.
*
* @see WP_oEmbed::data2html()
*
* @param string $return The embed HTML
* @param object $data The oEmbed response
* @param string $url The oEmbed content URL
*/
public function oembed_dataparse( $return, $data, $url )
{
if ( ! empty( $data->thumbnail_url ) && ! $this->_thumb_id ) {
// if ( in_array( @ $data->type, array( 'video' ) ) ) // Only set for video embeds
$this->set_thumb_by_url( $data->thumbnail_url, @ $data->title );
}
}
/**
* Attempt to download the image from the URL, add it to the media library,
* and set as the featured image.
*
* @see media_sideload_image()
*
* @param string $url
* @param string $title Optionally set attachment title
*/
public function set_thumb_by_url( $url, $title = null )
{
/* Following assets will already be loaded if in admin */
require_once ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/file.php';
require_once ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/media.php';
require_once ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/image.php';
$temp = download_url( $url );
if ( ! is_wp_error( $temp ) && $info = @ getimagesize( $temp ) ) {
if ( ! strlen( $title ) )
$title = null;
if ( ! $ext = image_type_to_extension( $info[2] ) )
$ext = '.jpg';
$data = array(
'name' => md5( $url ) . $ext,
'tmp_name' => $temp,
);
$id = media_handle_sideload( $data, $this->_post_id, $title );
if ( ! is_wp_error( $id ) )
return update_post_meta( $this->_post_id, '_thumbnail_id', $this->_thumb_id = $id );
}
if ( ! is_wp_error( $temp ) )
@ unlink( $temp );
}
}
Mitten Mouth Music: Alternative, Indie, Rap, Underground & Life Archives - Page 51 of 162 - The Earology Dept.
Santa Cruz artist Tree aka Oliver Nickel is finally getting the recognition, and exposure, he so rightfully deserves with the release of his Demons EP via Apollo Records. It is also good to see the rest of the world finally catching on to what Ive known for quite some time: Oliver Tree Nickel is an adept musical alchemist. Mr. Nickel commingles the sonorous ideas in his head with the innovative beats and rhythms of his heart.
The Demons EP contains only three tracks, but in this case it is the quality and not so much the quantity. My favorite is Tree’s rendition of Radiohead’s Karma Police. Tree’s version delivers beautifully whilst crawling on it’s bruised hands and bleeding knees, it contains a dour and fragile humanness only hinted at in the original version . This song begs with the mouth of a slightly off-center genius, and the pure unmolested emotions unspooled here replace a former Pop darling of a song with something more raw and stunningly menacing. This is avant garde Pop music at it’s finest carving out a place all it’s own. Peace. Continue reading “tree // demons ep”
Bad Suns is high voltage in you ears too. OUCH! Yeah, but a good kind of ouch.
bad suns // cardiac arrest
Bad Suns mayn’t be your usual cup of tea but you should know a sensational lip-smacking indie rock scorcher when you hear one. Alt radio, meet Bad Suns. Bad Suns, meet alt radio. You’re about to be best friends. The track Cardiac Arrest is the first single from what appears (or sounds like) a very promising young band. Word is their busy in the the studio and playing shows here and there. I’ll keep you posted on any new developments. Peace. Continue reading “bad suns | cardiac arrest”
“Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling like they want everyone to leave them the hell alone” – My Version of Sigmund Freud
autre ne veut // on & on + counting
The artist Autre Ne Veut (Arthur Ashin) is fast becoming quite the sensation in 2013 with his brand of forward motion R&B. His latest release, Anxiety, is the full-length follow up to Autre Ne Veut’s 2010 self-titled debut. And if the reviews for the album Anxiety are to believed this artist is here to stay, filling our collective ears with a disaccharides-laden falsetto and high quality production to spare. After the jump, check out the tracks On & On and Counting, the songs are not only easy to listen to but you’ll return to them because they’ve got an sensuous allure which is pretty hard to resist. Also, check out the full album stream on YouTube. Peace.
Los Angeles-based duo Kisses have a penchant for making electro Pop music gems like their single release The Hardest Part. This is the kind of music summertime is made for or vice versa. No matter, you can check out their sophomore release Kids In L.A. courtesy of CASINE records. Peace.
Obscenity is in the eye of the beholder. But like Ol’ Dirty B once said, “Baby I like it raw”.
pony bwoy // hallowed ground + dark soccer
Pony Bwoy is the latest project from rapper/singer/provocateur Jeremy Nutzman (aka Spyder Baybie Raw Dog), this time teaming up with producer Hunter Morley. Departing from his usual antics as a drugged-up after-party boy late to the club, Nutzman has now blossomed into a soulful smooth-talker, with vocal chops and rhythmic control of uncanny proportions. This transformation is no doubt a result of his collaborating with H. Morley and his forward thinking R&B-inspired production. The songs of Pony Bwoy vary from dance floor anthems to late-night chill zone lullabies perfect accompaniment for conjoined intimacy and solo exploration in the fine art of herblaxation. Album drops tomorrow July 16th. Peace. Continue reading “pony bwoy // hallowed ground + dark soccer”
Poliça’s track Tiff remixed by The Weeknd, Drake producer Doc McKinney
Last month, Poliça unveiled the graphic NABIL-directed video for Tiff. Along with the clip, the band released the cover art and track release for their forthcoming LP, Shulamith. Today, the band have announced an October 22nd date for the album, and offered up a re-envisioned version of Tiff, helmed by Drake-collaborator and producer behind The Weeknd, Doc McKinney.
Listen to the track after the jump, and head over to thisispolica.com for Shulamith cover art and album lyrics. Peace.
My soul has been deep-fried in the blissful harmonics of sweet song making.
menomena // co-headlining fall tour with the helio sequence
Barsuk Records is excited to announce that Menomena is touring this fall in support of their latest album Moms. The co-headlining tour with fellow Portland duo The Helio Sequence starts on September 28th 2013 at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and ends on October 25th at Urban Lounge in Salt Lake City. Full tour dates are below.
Moms is the Portland-based band’s fifth album, and their first as a duo. The album has been receiving wide praise, with Pitchfork proclaiming “Moms is without doubt the most aggressive record Menomena have ever made” and calling the lead single “Heavy Is As Heavy Does” “gloriously morose.” Rolling Stone likewise hailed the track as “an emotive outburst of a song that expertly sidesteps melodrama – confessional rock thrills without the cheesy aftertaste.” Paste remarked that the record is “the most candid and personal Menomena release to date,” while Under the Radar called Menomena “one of the most well thought-out bands working today, never sacrificing structure or composition in the name of delivering a series of power chords.” Alarm declared that Moms “is arguably Menomena’s best effort to date.” Peace.
Philosophy and other artistic endeavors mix well with rap like earth, wind and fire. Enter Old Money.
old money // fire in the dark
The rap duo Old Money (Ahmad Julian and Andre Oswald) rifts precipitously and adroitly upon matters of realness minus the pre-packaged cross-fade of the fake and contrived. Rap music, like every other type or genre of music, is perpetually going through evolutionary cycles. And like all things Darwinian the weak and inefficient will go the way of the Dodo bird, leaving room for innovation and renovation.
This evolution is reminiscent of the undulating waves of sea change or stock market trends; the former based on mother nature and the latter a virtual artificial construct which has all too real consequences in our everyday lives. It is exactly this kind of mundane dichotomy which pushes and pulls rap music against itself, it becomes stale on one side of the coin and cannibalistic like Francisco Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son on the flip-side. Reincarnation or regurgitation? Rerun of reinvention?
And so the pendulum swings between the blatant commercial effigies, i.e., Jay Z’s Magna Carter Holy Grail, Kanye West’s Yeezus etc. Listening to the acerbic tracks which make up the heart and head of their debut release Fire In The Dark via Dutty Artz, is kind of like unlearning bad habits, eating more fresh fruits and veggies or subscribing to Luminosity. Basically, vowing to be a better human being through the quality of the sonic images you put into your brain cavity. This curated collection of tracks is deep but not overly didactic, no superiority complex here.
This isn’t underbelly, grimy realness, but rather the mentally progressive and self-propulsive variety. Then there is the music, which is more world-pulse driven and less stereotypically typical. And further, this LP was by no means a quick fix for what Rap music was missing. In the words of duo co-founder Ahmad Julian, “It was a few years in the making, so we definitely want to make sure people get a chance to sit with it for a bit longer.” So, pull up a chair, the table is set, read the menu. Nothing but good food for thought up in here.
Mat Zo teams up with Porter Robinson and you’re feet are really the true winners here. Really.
matt zo + porter robinson = easy + mix of the week
At 23-years of age, Mat Zo (Matan Zohar) is part of a new breed of precocious, unrestricted DJ/producers that are making big noises without the one-dimensional genre blinkers of old. In the last 12-months alone, the London-based producer has seen his boundary-blurring productions like Bipolar and his latest missive – the big room melodic funk anthem “Easy” with partner in crime Porter Robinson – dominate the Beatport charts. But really all you have to do is let your ears come into contact with the music and it’ll be a wrap. Also, as an added and totally sky-scraping bonus get Mat Zo’s latest extended Mix Of The Week courtesy of Mixmag. Peace.
Honestly I can’t think of a better way to kick off another fine Summer weekend than with a bangin’ new mellifluous dance music mix from the incomparable Anna Lunoe. This particular mix first aired on Evolution/Dim Mak Radio on the 4th of July and, as expected, features Anna’s signature style of dead on bulls-eye, high quality, proper like House music, sure to get any and all bottoms shakin’ this weekend. Peace. Continue reading “anna lunoe // anna lunoe mix”
