Music Store Help

Hi,

I am new to using zen cart an I was looking to setup an online music store in which you can purchase individual songs and download them. I set up a sample store to play around with and I'm wondering what the best way to set up the song list for each album is.

if you see my site at https://www.djdesignsite.com/cart
you can see I put up a sample product. I have a little understanding of the option names and values and I managed to make 1 song so far that can be purchased and downloads fine. I'm just wondering what would be the best way to add songs because I don't think that making an option value and linking it to a name and then doing a product attribute is going to be good for managing a lot of albums.

If anyone knows a better way to make track listings in zen cart please let me know and all help is appreciated, thank you in advance

Also would there be a way to just have the value without the name (like the meaning in tragedy without the track 1)?

hi I can't help you much..but maybe you could help me how did you manage to get

Model: CD1055823
Artist: As I Lay Dying
Music Genre: Metal

Please Choose:
Meaning in Tragedy ( +$0.99 )

Media Collection:
PreviewThrough Struggle Preview.mp3 (MP3)

so close under the image..

i am setting up pretty much same thing.

http://totalsoundrecording.com/talent

your help is appreciated
Carla

I'm not the most experienced with zen cart but I'll tell you what I did and maybe you'll find that I have a different step than you

When I go to catalog->catagories/product before I hit the new product I make sure it says product - music instead of product general

now what you can do is check your layout settings under configuration and if you change one thing at a time (and change it back if it doesnt work) you may be able to isolate the issue

have a look at my other site .. is this what you mean?
http://www.totalsoundrecording.com/zenstore

Ya that site looks alright, I'm trying to figure out a way to lists downloadble tracks in a more efficient way than the attribute controller

Hey guys!!!

I'm have a problem ...when i list a item in product -music ..I get this annoying blue bar in the description.....Check out the url.....

http://joegiannetti.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&cPath=5&products_id=18

when you find a better way please let me know...

like the site .. but can't see any blue bar... sorry

Hi!
may I slightly change the topic? Does anyone know how to upload a database with music type products? I have 190 titles, each one with at least one pdf and mp3 file and really do not want to do it all by hand.

I'm not sure whether I should have started a new thread for this. Please forgive if I should have. I'm new at this and have never found a new posting button, only several "closed for posting".

Thanks
jcw

jcwebber:

Hi!
may I slightly change the topic? Does anyone know how to upload a database with music type products? I have 190 titles, each one with at least one pdf and mp3 file and really do not want to do it all by hand.

I'm not sure whether I should have started a new thread for this. Please forgive if I should have. I'm new at this and have never found a new posting button, only several "closed for posting".

Thanks
jcw

Im just about finished w a custom script that does this. Only I cannot for the life of me make the media manager work!!! AAAAAHHHH. The thing is, I need to automate all of this, the file upload, the database table inserts, the linking fields etc.. All pretty easy, except the media manager preview... I'm really frustrated...
Let me know if you still need to import 190 Products, I can help.

Im looking for something similiar, I need a script or module that makes it easy to make MP3 albums en masse

dreadlocks1221:

Hi,

I am new to using zen cart an I was looking to setup an online music store in which you can purchase individual songs and download them. I set up a sample store to play around with and I'm wondering what the best way to set up the song list for each album is.

if you see my site at https://www.djdesignsite.com/cart
you can see I put up a sample product. I have a little understanding of the option names and values and I managed to make 1 song so far that can be purchased and downloads fine. I'm just wondering what would be the best way to add songs because I don't think that making an option value and linking it to a name and then doing a product attribute is going to be good for managing a lot of albums.

If anyone knows a better way to make track listings in zen cart please let me know and all help is appreciated, thank you in advance

Also would there be a way to just have the value without the name (like the meaning in tragedy without the track 1)?

Could you describe more clearly what you would like to display.

Example:

Genre
Artist
Album Title
Image of Album
Tracklist
Price
Download link ? Text hyperlink? Check box? Option Box ?

You must purchase full album not individual tracks?

With some clear info and description I can then picture it to know how I would go about building.

if you have an example site you can point to that will help.

default1001:

Im just about finished w a custom script that does this. Only I cannot for the life of me make the media manager work!!! AAAAAHHHH. The thing is, I need to automate all of this, the file upload, the database table inserts, the linking fields etc.. All pretty easy, except the media manager preview... I'm really frustrated...
Let me know if you still need to import 190 Products, I can help.

When you complete your Custom script it would be great if you contributed this to Zen Cart Mods section as this would be very useful for many.

Muzz:

Could you describe more clearly what you would like to display.

Example:

Genre
Artist
Album Title
Image of Album
Tracklist
Price
Download link ? Text hyperlink? Check box? Option Box ?

You must purchase full album not individual tracks?

With some clear info and description I can then picture it to know how I would go about building.

if you have an example site you can point to that will help.

I actually managed to figure it out, I just left one of the attribute fields blank

Muzz:

When you complete your Custom script it would be great if you contributed this to Zen Cart Mods section as this would be very useful for many.

I certainly will! If you know php, I could just send it to you, it doesn't actually modify any of the existing zen cart files! I just put it into it's own folder outside of the web root. Oh, and it even sets up the media manager preview now! Sweet. Yeah, I forgot to set my Category as Music... pretty obvious!

Cheers

Sounds Great!!

default1001:

I certainly will! If you know php, I could just send it to you, it doesn't actually modify any of the existing zen cart files! I just put it into it's own folder outside of the web root. Oh, and it even sets up the media manager preview now! Sweet. Yeah, I forgot to set my Category as Music... pretty obvious!

Cheers

Good work!

Hi,

Would it be possible to share this solution? I am making an online music store and this would be real handy.

Thanks,
Paddy