deanclarke55 wrote:

Is there anyway I can set it up so that anyone - registered or not can listen to the songs of an album - so they dont have to log in to hear them.

There's no parameter for that. you will have to do it manually. if you are familiar to PHP and still want to do this, I can tell you how. if you're not familiar... its not a good idea to change the source code yourself...

Also how do I limit to the time of a song, lets say I want to allow the user to only listen to first 30 seconds of the song.

you can't, at least with Dewplayer (the player provided with the component). so the only way would be uploading a 30 seconds version of the song... but if you want registered users to listen the complet song... theres no way. once again, the other option would be writing you own Player plugin for Music Collection. if you're familiar with PHP, that's very easy to do and I can tell you how...if you're not...:S

Sorry, also how do you disable comments and ratings if I wanted to, I think an enable/disable button within the parameters would be a good idea.

I'm sorry, but I did'nt planned to disable the comments/ratings feature via parameter in this first version of the component. I agree with you that this would be a good idea, so I will include on the next version. But now, the only way to do it is changing the source code. Once again, if you are a programmer, thats extremely easy...

So.. are you programmer?

cheers

Thanks for your reply.

Im not really a programmer although I can generally find my way around things and edit code if need be.

Obviously before I do any hacking I will save all files first.

Many Thanks

If you end up needing help, I'll be happy to walk you through it, as well, if Germi gets busy. I modified mine to remove comments and ratings, and allow non-registered users to listen as well.

Once you find the code for one page, search for the same code snippets among other pages. For me, this process was sped up by using Dreamweaver's search feature... but I'm sure other applications offer this same option. Definitely, make sure you save a backup of all source pages first. I recommend starting with one page at a time, say an album page, to see that your changes are being made without error. Upload and refresh to see that you're able to see the player as an unregistered user. From there, if all is well, proceed to make similar changes in all other relevant pages.

My samples are also set to about 30 seconds each - but as Germi said, that was done by manually editing tracks.

if you're reading this thread, you may want to take a look at this other thread:
http://www.joomlamusicsolutions.com/en/forum/general/how-to-allow-everybody-to-download-listen-songs.html#53

Hello

for anybody reading this thread: In the upgraded version 1.0.1 this option is controlable via parameter

now you can choose who can download/listen songs: nobody, everybody or only registered users.

upgrade to version 1.0.1. the upgrade package is available on the donwloads area - upgrades category

oh, also "comments" and "ratings" are now controllable via parameter

thanks man for the fast upgrade! Great component MUST always come with great support and so far that's I see here. Thanks again!