MP3 Album Track list

[MicrophonePro]

bettysue,

I really appreciate the way that you added the wimpy player to your product pages. Would you be so kind as to share more information as to how you accomplished this? I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks a ton,
Jamey

[bettysue]

bettysue,

I really appreciate the way that you added the wimpy player to your product pages. Would you be so kind as to share more information as to how you accomplished this? I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks a ton,
Jamey

Hi Jamey,

I know the vague basics as my fiance is the one who did the code and figured it out.

The basics are that he added a new field to the products table in the database named: products_mp3_code

Which is where I put the link for the individual player for that cd. The code ends up being (for example)

<object id="wimpy" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,47,0" height="300" width="188" align="center" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000">
<param value="always" name="allowScriptAccess" />
<param value="http://www.url to where/the song samples/ are for this/artist/wimpy.swf" name="movie" />
<param value="false" name="loop" />
<param value="false" name="menu" />
<param value="high" name="quality" />
<param value="noscale" name="scale" />
<param value="lt" name="salign" />
<param value="000000" name="bgcolor" />
<param value="wimpyApp=http://www.url to where/the wimpy file/ is for this/artist/wimpy.php&wimpySkin=http://www.url to where/the wimpy skin/is for this/artist/skin_blackpod.xml&startPlayingOnload=yes" name="flashvars" />
<param value="transparent" name="wmode" />
</object>

The other thing I know is that we use the products-music type for the artists with the MP3 players, so in the tpl_product_music_info.php is the code that calls the mp3 player.

As far as all the steps in between, I am going to email my honey who is on the road right now and ask him if he will expand on my rather meager explanation. He will hopefully be on the net tomorrow evening when he stops for the night.

So I guess stay tuned for part two! Sorry I couldn't give the full explanation. I do the make pretty and he does the tricky coding stuff.

betty

[MicrophonePro]

Thanks for the response betty and I further appreciate you checking with your fiance. I'm not much of a hard core coder myself so I didn't know where to start at all. With the input you gave me I can start researching what I need to. I'm sure I'll learn something interesting.

My store is a Pro Audio shop and I'm hoping to provide clips of sounds recorded with the microphones and associated equipment I sell. Your solution seems ideal for what I'm looking to do.

I gotta tell you that your site has been a big inspiration for me. I was pretty clueless about css and after seeing your zen cart, I just knew I had to dig in further. Though the changes I have made to my cart are simple, I feel empowered to have learned the basics and see the opportunities. The inspiration came just in time as I recently finished my new logo and was wondering how to get my store to resonate with it. Still lots of work to do there but learning more every day. Thanks for the inspiration.

Cheers,
Jamey

[genabit]

Jamie, please send me a pm with your email for further info on how we set this up.

[genabit]

Yes. It is a lengthy process to add each title in both the option names and the option values, then in the Attributes controller for each product, however currently it is the only way to do it (as far as I know).

betty

well you can use easypopulate or copy the attributes and then just modify the attributes with the new download names..... but thats an easy way to do it, since you have to manually add the download file name anyway.

[bettysue]

Thanks for the response betty and I further appreciate you checking with your fiance. I'm not much of a hard core coder myself so I didn't know where to start at all. With the input you gave me I can start researching what I need to. I'm sure I'll learn something interesting.

My store is a Pro Audio shop and I'm hoping to provide clips of sounds recorded with the microphones and associated equipment I sell. Your solution seems ideal for what I'm looking to do.

I gotta tell you that your site has been a big inspiration for me. I was pretty clueless about css and after seeing your zen cart, I just knew I had to dig in further. Though the changes I have made to my cart are simple, I feel empowered to have learned the basics and see the opportunities. The inspiration came just in time as I recently finished my new logo and was wondering how to get my store to resonate with it. Still lots of work to do there but learning more every day. Thanks for the inspiration.

Cheers,
Jamey

Thank you for the kind words Jamey

For the site I took a template monster regular (not a Zencart one) flash website template the owner purchased and just took the photoshop images and the other images and changed them to fit the zencart side and center boxes, etc. Then grabbed other parts of images for the different backgrounds, and so on.

I've used the same technique for a few other stores. I'm hoping someday to make a store out of some of the templates that I own so I can add them as contributions.

Once you're done weith yours, I hope you leave a link so everyone can go admire all your hard work!!

btw genabit (the one that asked you to pm him) is my fiance

thank you again,

betty

[genabit]

:-)

wow, thanks..

yes so far it's not bad... but it looks ugly and i can't get previews running.... and its possible to buy "nothing"....

the only way i can thin of on how to see the track name displayed beside each download checkbox, was to add a attribute value named after the track...
but having many cds this would give many many values...

and that can't be the point?

you can try my mod at http://www.buysoul.com my mod is located at
http://webstoredemo.com/mp3_flv_mod.zip

[swortis]

Nice mod!

I've tried to further customize your mod so as to have the MP3s associated with Music Products, as opposed to 'normal' products. Have been able to add the correct fields to the Admin product area, and it is correctly writing to the database. However, I can't get anything to print to the final html. Any thoughts on what I've missed?

Thanks!

[bettysue]

Nice mod!

I've tried to further customize your mod so as to have the MP3s associated with Music Products, as opposed to 'normal' products. Have been able to add the correct fields to the Admin product area, and it is correctly writing to the database. However, I can't get anything to print to the final html. Any thoughts on what I've missed?

Thanks!

I'm not sure if this is what you are referring to or not, so please excuse me if I'm on my own blonde conversation. On the site I gave as my example with the mp3 player, buysoul.com Michael I have all the download cd's set to use the music product type. Also (to confuse things even more) since we don't sell the physical version of the cd's and only the downloads, we are affiliates of itunes and amazon. So Michael built into the admin for me, fields where I can input the amazon code, itunes code, and the mp3 player code, when I input the products.

Below is a printscreen of the mp3 player code from admin:



Is that what you are referring to?

betty

[swortis]

Hi Betty,

I was referring to genabit's mod, which, yes, appears to be what you're using. The mod adds the extra field to the regular Products Info display, and I've been trying to get it to work with the Music Products Info display (but alas so far to no avail..)

Cheers,
SWW