MP3 Album Track list

[bettysue]

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

Hi swortis,

Yes, that's the mod I'm referring to as genabit is my fiance. I haven't actually looked at his mod package as he installs me for it where I need it, but he usually does install it for the Product Music Type for me. I know the template modification I made for him for it was in that template.

He's on the road but subscribed to this thread I think, so once he stops at a truck stopwhere he can get internet access he will probably post and hopefully help you out.

betty

[swortis]

Actually I retracked my steps. One single typo had done me in, but now it's working.

This is an excellent mod as it's a fine blueprint for adding extra fields in general to product listings.

In the case of Mp3s, and specifically the Wimpy player (which can play tracks from a SQL server and has ecommerce functionality, seems like it'll take more tweaking to seemlessly really work it into Zen-Cart but I'm optimistic.

(Although it'd be nice to have a completely open-source solution to the problem).

[bettysue]

glad to hear you got it working and all is well!

betty

[fran]

Hi, this is a great mod for music shops, thanks to bettsue and genabit for this!

I'd like to expand on it a bit though and have the little Wimpy "play" button on the product listing pages so people can listen without clicking into the actual product itself, just makes browsing music much faster... like Beatport.com

How would you change the code so that the play button appeared next to titles in the product listing display?

Thanks!

[fran]

I think im having problems with the player on each product page, the wimpy player is playing all the files in the previews folder where the wimpy.swf file is and all the mp3 song previews are.
Are we supposed to be making folders for separate artists and putting the wimpy files in each artist folder, then link to the artist folder or is there a way to get wimpy to play the file/files which are specific to each product as in the mp3 preview attributes that are assigned to the specific product?

I also still see "product description" written beside the box that is now supposed to be called "mp3 code", did i miss something?

[fran]

Actually a potential problem with this mod might arise if you want to do a site wide change of the mp3 player code across all product descriptions where the code is stored. So the way it is now you have multiple copies of the same code with just a different mp3 filename.
Im not much of a PHP guru but would it be beneficial to have the wimpy code in 1 php file with the file name part of the code setup as a variable which gets inserted with the file that is setup in zencart as the preview file?
So you could use code something like this in the product description:

require('wimpy_player.php' . '/' . $filename=song.mp3);

Im not even sure how to write it properly but im sure if someone that knows PHP like genobit, they would be able to find a way to do it...?

On my previews in a product info page, zencart generates the filename:

http://sonictrip.net/store/media/U%2...%20Preview.mp3

So, that could be the variable $filename which gets picked up depending which product you are on.

Then, if site wide changes need to be made like different skin or shape and size of the player, you would just need to change 1 php file instead of loads of product descriptions...

There's a version of Wimpy Player which uses javascript in a similar way to what im trying to describe above but i couldnt manage to even get the player loading up. It stores all the wimpy info in a file called wimpy.js and you use code like this in your product decriptions:

<script language="JavaScript" >
makeWimpyPlayer("somefile.mp3");
</script>

[fran]

I think im having problems with the player on each product page, the wimpy player is playing all the files in the previews folder where the wimpy.swf file is and all the mp3 song previews are.
Are we supposed to be making folders for separate artists and putting the wimpy files in each artist folder, then link to the artist folder or is there a way to get wimpy to play the file/files which are specific to each product as in the mp3 preview attributes that are assigned to the specific product?

I also still see "product description" written beside the box that is now supposed to be called "mp3 code", did i miss something?

The following code works to overcome this problem and play an individual mp3 instead of a whole folder, works on v5 of Wimpy player:

<object id="wimpy2853" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,47,0" height="115" width="340" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000">
<param value="always" name="allowScriptAccess" />
<param value="http://www.your-url.net/store/media/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.your-url.net/store/media/wimpy.php&bufferAudio=1&startPlayingOnload=yes&voteScript=
http://www.your-url.net/store/media/votescript.php&trackPlays=http://www.your-url.net/store/media/trackscript.php&playlist=http://www.your-url.net/store/media/filename.mp3" name="flashvars" />
<param value="transparent" name="wmode" />
</object>

[misty]

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

Is this zip file no longer available..link not working?

[koesbong]

bump. anyone can help with the link?

[jrdark13]

Anyone have this mod so they can pass it on? thanx.