Can Music Collection do what I need?

Melanie
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Hi,

I have just purchased Music Collection in the hope that what I need is achievable.

My site is not a music site, but a collection of audio files. There will only ever be 1 artist to 1 audio file - no albums (i.e. a collection of audios from the same artist).

I want to display my audio files in a very simple way, with a title (artist name) an image of the artist, the ability to click and play the audio (as you can in your demo) and finally a caption/introduction below with social share buttons. I will still have Genre etc.

I want to be able to display them on a page so the new ones automatically appear when added.

In my old system (just a gallery component with my audio files being pulled from EasyBlog articles) I used to also display the locations of my artists on an interactive map so when users clicked on the map icon it opened an info box that included a link back to the audio file. Do you know of any 3rd party extensions that would work with Music Collection to plot the locations on a map - seeing as we collect location data when adding records?

Finally, is there any kind of slide show or carousel that works with your component i.e. to display the latest additions/uploads?

I realise I should have asked these questions before purchasing but when I read about your new release it looked like it could do what I needed, and now I am in the process of setting it up, it doesn't look like it may be possible.

Kind regards

Mel

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Thursday, September 15 2016, 06:16 PM - #Permalink
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hello!

1- we don't have a map in Music Collection.. this would require custom coding work in any case.

2- yes, we have the "albums" module that you can use (even if you use songs only) with the "carousel" mode...

3- there's no problem in using only 1 song per album.. the result will be pretty much the same. You can have the search page to display only this (the songs), like a unique page for all your songs...
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    Melanie
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    Friday, September 16 2016, 02:08 PM - #Permalink
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    Hi Germinal,

    I am slowly getting there. I have set up the module for Albums, and to grid layout. I now have the album details showing, I have added a song to the album via backend, now I have the grid displaying, showing the Album title, but there is no image nor does it play. What is missing?
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    Melanie
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    Sunday, September 18 2016, 01:16 PM - #Permalink
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    Hi,

    I realised I hadn't selected card layout in the module, which now gives me a different look but the same issue in that it isn't displaying the correct image and the play button doesn't work. When I click on the image it takes me to an error page and shows resolving host in thebottom of my browser window. The error is as follows:

    This site can’t be reached

    our-library2’s server DNS address could not be found

    our-library2 is the name of the menu link.

    This is how my screen currently looks:
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    Melanie
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    Sunday, September 18 2016, 05:44 PM - #Permalink
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    I will start a new thread as my problem is slightly different now
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