1) yes
2) this does not depend on us. we sell a software to manage music. the music you put in it it's up to you, we don't have anything to do with taht... I guess if you have the rights, you can do it!
3) you upload it manually. optionally, there's a BETA function on the DISCOGS api (included) that downloads the pitures for you.

Germi

Hi Germi,
Looks like you got yourself a new customer !!! Two quick questions, can I stop people downloading the albums/tracks that get up loaded ? Also how does the download track part of things work ? can I link that directly to say itunes and get an affiliate commission, I know I would have to join there affiliate programme but could each album thats up loaded be directly linked to itunes to buy?

Thanks for your reply,
Kind regards
Russ

Well, you disable the downloading option if you want. But, at some point, if the user is "smart enough" he'll be always able to find a way to download the file...

The BUY NOW button is just a link you can use to send the customer somewhere else to purchase the song/album. Of course, if you have an iTunes affiliate account, you can use e link to send the customer to iTunes, no problem

You have to write the links one by one, though.

Best,
Germi

Germi,
Another quick question ... I have 100 albums on my ipod and my itunes software on the computer . . . is there an easy way to upload all the albums directly from my itunes with the album covers etc ?

Thanks
Russ

I'm afraid there's not.
To allow this we would need to write a custom import script just for that case...it would be complicated..
So, no,you can't do this out of the box, sorry...

Ok no problem ! Could you write a custom script that when you clicked on the "buy now" icon it loaded up itunes and automatically posted the album title in to the itunes search box and hit enter ? like a batch file? If not no probs but it would be a handy feature I would pay extra for !

yes we could do that as custom coding work (I asume that iTunes can be accessed by clickin an URL and posting a search into it.. right?)

in any case, this is a personalized custom work we woudl do for you (so you should contact us about this through the CUSTOM SERVICE form after you already own the software)

maybe you can first play around with Music Collection, and then contact us about the customized features you want to add.

what you think?

Germi

Sounds perfect ! I will do ! thanks for all your help today !

Russ

Hi,
Just been looking at storage space to up load the music on to. My ISP charges £18 a year per gigabyte extra which would cost a small fortune. Would it be possible to have all the albums stored on Amazon S3 cloud server and link my web template on my web site to them ? Having the albums stored in a different location would be a lot cheaper. Would this be hard to do? to re program where the music is stored? yet still keeping the the template interface on my web site ? would the tracks still stream or would there be a delay, latency?

Thank you
Russ

music can be streamed from external server, yes. amazon S3 too, I think, but I never tried myself. I know a lot of users in our site do (you can search on the forum). it is possible that you need a tweak on the player to allow RTMP streaming from amazon s3, tho.

anyway, there won't be delay, latency, etc, I think. it shouldn't.

(but you will still have to add your songs one by one, I mean, putting the link to the amazon in each song..)

Germi

Hi,
I have just purchased and downloaded you music collection community pro and I am trying to install it. I really need some help please ....
I already have Jomsocial running on the site and I am using a Jomsocial template from Gavick pro ....

I want to install music collection under another menu item (music) but so the music stream feed in to jomsocial users profiles but keeping the music page seperate from the Jomsocial one. I have downloaded a template called Musicity from Gavick Pro I was hoping to use as it has the T3 thing going on etc.

I am totally stuck, if I gave you my log in details etc could you please take a look and see where I am going wrong ? I have got the folders in the image folder etc

Thank you for your help

Kind regards
Russ

but what's the problem you have now? the install went ok?

all you need is to create a new menu item pointing to Music Collection's hompeage....

I have all the components listed under components but how do I point the menu item to the music solutions home page ? I was expecting to see something in templates that I could link to but I cant see anything there ???

Thank you
Russ

it's very easy:

go to your menu manager, and create a new menu item inside your main menu

there, you just select
Music Collection -> ARTISTS

that is the MAIN page of music collection.

to add content to this particular page, you can use the INTROTEXT fields you will find on the component parameters (button at the top right corner on the administrator of music collection)

before doing that, is a good idea to start populating your site with some artists and albums...

Germi

hello!!!

please can you send these details to my email?
joomlamusicsolutions@gmail.com

man, DELETE all this details on the forum!!! it is not safe to put this data here where everyone can see it!! bad idea!!!!!!!!! :S :S :S

Hi Germi,
Have you had a chance to look at it yet ?

Regards
Russ

going to do it now

Thank you ;-) !!!!

Hi,
Have you got my email yet ? I sent it twice now ?
Thanks
Russ