Music mp3 Downloads- how to purcahse whole albums

[jami1955]

There must be loads of people out there using OsCommerce for music purchases and downloads. Question:

 

How to organize albums so that the user can either purchase a single track, or with one click he/she can purchase the entire album, and then see all individual tracks ready to download in his account?

 

It occured to me that one way of doing that would be to be able to purchase the entire contents of a category in one click, and just make each album a separate category...

thanks,

JSC

[andrewhy]

Unfortunately, there is no way that I know of currently of selling individual tracks alongside a full album. Of course, you could offer a full zipped album for download or sell tracks as individual products.

 

I'm hoping to create a contribution that will do just that. However, I'm kind of a newbie to PHP, so it would be some time before it would be available. Certainly a contribution that allows one to sell music ala iTunes, etc is past due, and I'm surprised no one else has thought of it.

 

As an aside, if anyone is interested in helping code a contribution to do this, please contact me: andrew at inmyroom dot org. I'm in the process of beginning a project to create a music download contribution for osC.

[nesulrich]

I found this site that looks very nice: http://3hmp3.com

 

I sent them an email to ask if its osCommerce and their reply was "Yes it is".

 

I read elsewhere on the forum that "Master Products" is good for this and see that its by the same guy that did the above site!

 

 

Ulrich

[star3am]

Hi everyone, I do music downloads and people can buy the CD, or tracks in MP3 or WAV format, select all with one click etc.

 

You can checkout, http://www.3am.co.za/catalog/afrogalactic-...roducts_id/3480

 

You will need,

 

1) Master Products

2) Downloads Controller

3) Free Shipping

 

For the one click select all function I use,

 

Java Script, add before </head>

<script language='JavaScript'>

checked = false;

function checkedAll () {

if (checked == false){checked = true}else{checked = false}

for (var i = 0; i < document.getElementById('buy_now_').elements.length; i++) {

document.getElementById('buy_now_').elements.checked = checked;

}

}

</script>

 

This function to Check/Uncheck All

 

Put in product_info.php Note.. added id="buy_now_"

<form name="buy_now_" id="buy_now_" method="post" action="' . tep_href_link(basename($PHP_SELF), tep_get_all_g

et_params(array('action')) . 'action=add_slave', 'NONSSL') . '">'; ?>)

 

Add this inside, the <form name="buy_now_"> tags somewhere

<input type='checkbox' name='checkall' onclick='checkedAll();'>

 

I make the CD the master, and the MP3 files the slave products, works like a charm ..

 

All the best!

 

Riaan

[jami1955]

Wo, Riaan that is a shit hot site. One small little thing is it takes about 30 to 45 seconds for each page to load and I've got a cable connection which usually screams. One question I had about the ipod player you are offering the code for, does the player always need to go to your site to get itself, or can I install it directly on my domain?

 

It looks like I will have to get into those three contributions you mention, which to tell the truth seems like a lot of work... I was looking at ZenCart and seeing how easy they make the download mp3 thing, and wishing I had started with them. But, alas, I did not. So off we go to get our non PHP language writing head around these contributions. Thanks for your post, it's what I was originally looking for.

 

JSC

[♥Vger]

If you are using Master Products (which you'll need) then you start off with a whole new site, add master Products to it and then build up from there. Master Products edites half or more of the files in osCommerce so you can't add it to an existing website.

 

Vger

[jami1955]

Hey Riaan, one more question: do these contributions go with my version of OSC? Which is

 

Version 2.2rc1

 

I noticed a lot of contributions are for vers. 2.2 MS... which ain't mine...

 

thanks

JSC

[jami1955]

Interesting. So would I stay with vers. 2.2rc1, or try and find vers. 2.2 MS?

JSC