my band website, is there anything you can suggest i add module/feature wise?

if you're looking for help, give me a shout...

I've modified the flash popup player to disable the DOWNLOAD THIS FILE option (When you have the pop up player playing, if you click on the right mouse button, the default allows users to download the file).

You can modify the player.swf yourself by downloading the source and if you have flash (I think it was done in FlashMX which is a free 30 day trial download from macromedia.com). I can email you my modified player if you don't mind the typeface and colours used.

To counter people guessing the links to download the audio files, we uploaded low quality versions of the songs with a joint stereo setting. the band are pretty cool about people hacking/guessing the links to download the audio, so it's not a big deal. I've offered to setup a downloads shop for them using the quickfile.module which is a work in progress, so fans will be able to buy the songsas downloads.

Not sure if it's of use, but, I've also tweaked the playlists theme (created by the playlist.module) to look like this, if you have a few albums/catalogue and don't like the look of the default playlists:

http://www.thefourofus.org/wip/cp_album_preview

the nice thing about the playlist.module, is that you can create a MYSPACE style music preview...you know the way when you go to a myspace page there are a few songs you can click on straight away? well, you can setup a front page playlist and put it in a block.

Anyway..drop me an email if you need a hand with anything. the audio.module + playlist.module have both been very well thought through and were very useful for that band site..they have 6 albums, so there was quite a bit of catalogue to manage. It's still a work in progress though.

Dub

Hi Elgrillo,

there are far more better ways of doing this, but, to answer your question, it's a very simple CCK node type with a php snippet (pasted below) that pulls up the gigs in that way - with the alternate shading (style classes for table rows (TR) gigs-even and gigs-odd ).

The snippet creates tables to present the gig listing and a simple node-content_gigs.tpl.php to put the time/venue/date/links data into columns.

The snippet also sorts the gig dates by the $field = 'field_date__time_on_stage_value'; rather than when the gig was added to the site.

http://www.thefourofus.org/wip/tours

<?php
print "<table><TABLE cellPadding=8 width=600  border=0>
<TBODY><TR bgcolor=\"#f4f4f4\"><TD vAlign=center align=left><STRONG>Date</STRONG></TD><TD vAlign=center align=left><STRONG>Venue</STRONG></TD><TD vAlign=center align=left><STRONG>Lineup</STRONG></TD><TD vAlign=center align=left><STRONG>Ticket Info </STRONG></TD></TR>";
//define limit, cck content type and the cck content field I want to sort the query by
$nlimit = 20; 
$contentname = 'node_content_gig'; 
$field = 'field_date__time_on_stage_value';

// construct the query
$query = "SELECT * 
FROM $contentname
ORDER BY $field ASC";

// run the query
$result1 = pager_query(db_rewrite_sql ($query), variable_get('default_nodes_main', $nlimit)); 

// run the zebra lines code
$comment_count = 1; 

//extract the output
while ($node = db_fetch_object($result1)) {
 static $comment_count;
$comment_count++; 
if ($comment_count % 2) {
  $output2 .= '<tr class="gigs-even">';
  $output2 .= node_view(node_load(array('nid' => $node->nid)), 1);
  $output2 .= '</tr>';}
else {
  $output2 .= '<tr class="gigs-odd">';
  $output2 .= node_view(node_load(array('nid' => $node->nid)), 1);
  $output2 .= '</tr>';}
}

// print the results.
print $output2;
print "<TR bgcolor=\"#f4f4f4\" height=\"6\">
<TD colspan=\"4\"></TD>
</TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<!-- end tours --><p>More dates to be announced soon.</p>";
?>

Please note, that site is still a wip (work in progress) and normally I try and avoid using tables where possible, so when I get a chance, I'll update this thread later with more the efficient way of doing it.

hope that answers your question.

Dub

take a look at the ecommerce.moudle which should allow you to sell your full files, and store them on your drupal site.

The premium module may be a way to sell these mp3 files as well as the lm_paypal module. it would take some close inspection on a test installation before installing these onto your live setup.

Hi Marlow,

As a tip, especially if you're coming from a payloadz experience is download and try out the quickfile.module. It works brilliantly with Drupal 4.7 and Drupal 5 RC1 and accepts paypal.

misunderstood is correct that the ecommerce suite is worth looking at, especially if you have a large catalogue and you want to allow fans to put MP3 files into a cart and then pay using paypal/other, but, for selling singles/full album downloads, the quickfiles.module is superb. It's like an out-of-the-box payloadz for your own site.

I don't use it at the moment because micropayments are only available to the Paypal merchants in the USA at the moment (at least the last time I looked).

The Drupal band site I referred to earlier ( http://www.thefourofus.org ) uses CCNOW for credit card album sales (CCNOW reports music sales to soundscan and they take a hefty comission about 7% or 8% in total) and www.artists-first.net for digital downloads (they report to the official chart companies in the UK and Ireland so the sales count towards the weekly charts). The Artists first solution also offers mobile SMS payment, which is a bonus. A lot of kids in the UK, Ireland and Europe who don't have credit cards find it easy to buy using their mobile. It's very quick and simple.

here's a link to the quickfile.module

http://drupal.org/project/quickfile

hope that helps

Dub