many of our users use it for non-music sites. movies and books is a good example. others even show art galleries and other stuff.

basically all you'll need is to change the language labels, such as "Book" instead of "Album", or "Author" instead of "Artist"...

I think it can fit your needs quite well. and if tehre's something very specific you need but can't achieve, you can always do some customization later (we have a service for that).

you can see screenshots of the backend of the component here:
http://www.joomlamusicsolutions.com/en/features/administration-area.html

best,
Germi

Thanks for your very fast answer Germi. Sounds good to me, is your service forum based?

I do have one more question. I plan to have one menu for books, and one for movies. Is there a simple way to make these menus list books and movies seperatly? And also modules that lists top books, and the other top movies?

Thanks for the answers again. I plan on launching my next project next month, so i will probably go for your component, it looks like it will fit all my needs good, to a fair price.

1) no, the customization service is a separate paying service...: http://www.joomlamusicsolutions.com/en/custom-service.html

2) actually... no, there is not an easy way for that. sorry, I asumed that you were asking to use the component for a "book" site or a "movie" site, I was not thinking in both at the same time... to achieve this, you'd actually need a "deep" modification of the component...

How deep are we talking about? I think ive created two new scenes for you guys.

Judging from the backend pictures i have a thought, cant i just add two formats; books and movies. Then if i want to list the hottest books i only list the book format in the module, is that possible?

You should really get a working demo up where you can login backend and play around a bit.

yes, you could do that.

the only thing is that "artists" would be mixed on your site (i mean, you'd have both book & movie artists listed on the same place.)

but yes, using formats is a good solution that does not require customization.

otherwise, the "deep" customization would be actually create some kind of "clone" component, changing all its database tables, classes, etc... so it can be used side by side with the original component, without mixing things

Germi

Hmm, from what seemed to be the perfect solution somehow turned into a headache..

Is this perhaps something you guys are planning on in the future, to make another component for other medias? Could i get help making a clone, and if not, then point me in the direction of doing it myself?

hello

no, we don't plan to make this on the future.

Making a clone is complicated... I cannot just "point" you. we would have to do it ourselves..

To bad. Are you guys able to make a clone, and what would that cost me?

Yes, we can do it of course.
For customization prices please contact us through our custom service form... thanks!!

http://www.joomlamusicsolutions.com/en/custom-service.html

Hello again!

So i have been thinking and it looks now like i will buy your component and mix it with both books and movies. To custom program it and making a clone was way to expensive.

One last question however. I run my new project on J1.5, i dont plan to migrate to 1.6. If i buy your component now, will you keep doing updates on the 1.5 version? From what ive read you guys are finetuning the 1.6 version, will you focus all your energy on that version in the future, or update both?

Or, can i run the 1.6 version on a 1.5 site?

our next versions will work for both J 1.5 and 1.6, so don't worry aobut that we will focus on adding great features, no matter what joomla version you use

Good news Just bought a copy, im sure ill do some posts in the support section later on.