Audio samples in list view

[thehenryfam]

My client, who sells recordings and sheet music, wants the category page to just be a list of the titles with a “Listen” link that would allow people to hear a sample of the recording (and in the case of the sheet music would download a PDF sample). What would be the best way for me to accomplish this? Or would it just be impossible without completely recoding the cart?

Thanks,
Scott

[vivaknievel]

I'm looking for something similar... something that would allow you to call up clips uploaded into the Media Manager, by clicking on a Flash button, but neatly aligned track by track, in a table.

The closest I've found is this thread, which contains a mod for using a Wimpy Flash player, that you would put into your product listings But even with the instructions, I couldn't quite get it happening on my site. http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...usic+downloads

It seems that everyone who's successfully done what you and I are trying to do, have employed outside programmers to come in and modify the code. What's generally involved, it seems, is getting the both the attributes and media manager to work together, to display the proper clip and Buy Now/checkbox next to the proper track. If I ever find a solution to this, I'll post about it and would happily share it in the Mod Downloads section, but currently, I don't have enough information about what exactly needs to be done to even attempt a modification or test.

[vivaknievel]

Update...

If you do try to use the modification I mentioned... since it was written a year or so ago, it's a little different for 1.3.8. The instructions have some code line numbers in it... usually you may have to scroll up or down within the code to find the correct line to alter.

Also, just found this post which offers another approach for stores primarily selling music. It, however, does not use the Media Manager, is from 2006, and I'm not yet sure I understand exactly what the author has done, but there may be a handy alternative laying in there until the Great Music Zen Cart God out there uploads a modification that can accomplish this. ;)

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...=music+samples