File downloads for audio

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First of all I would like to thank the ubercart team for such a fantastic drupal module!

I'm currently running an online record label using the e-commerce module for all our the file downloads and subscriptions which is tied in with the audio module. Lately we starting to realise that the e-commerce module for file downloads is really not providing what we really need and is far to buggy at the moment and is far beyond my present skills to fix it.

My question is with the ubercart file download is it possible to attach file downloadable products to the audio content type made by the audio modue, I have yet to figure out how to attach any file downloads to any products using ubercart.

Help much appreciated,
Tom.

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Since the audio module allows for users with permissions to upload files, I don't think Übercart has that functionality yet. (User-submitted products). But that's something we're interested in developing.

You can add any files you like to the UC "Product" content type, who the provider of the content is, is up to you. Currently it's not available for customers to upload or create their own products yet, I'm afraid. With our site we plan on offering some kind of rev-share affiliate program where customers can sign up, and create their own content; sell it on our site and receive a cut of the sales. That's not possible with UC's current status. (But again is something we - RiffTrax, not necessarily Ubercart - are looking at development early next year).

Does this help at all?

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I would simply regard it as a normal product, the audio file! Then during checkout when the order is complete (not submitted but more like pending update order balance .. see other thread about it for details), you email the customer a special url or if it is not taht big dispatch an email with it. You could also thus create a zip file with password so that only this user can download and open it until you have deleted the special file link again ...

If you like this approach, let's talk more about it (I do not know what the uc file download module offers at this point?! Try it out 2 Eye-wink

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Thanks for the help guys, perhaps I should have explained it in a bit more detail. We are not using trying to sell the audio that is uploaded through the audio module, the file we upload is a simple playlist file, in fact we just want to turn the audio content type into a product so we can add the full audio in a product option of mp3 or flac just like in the livetest here http://livetest.ubercart.org/product/cha0s-jams-recursion-emerge is this possible?

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you may want to ask the guy there how he did it: I still would bet on the file download module of ubercart, right ?!

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Yes I hope I can bet on file download module from ubercart I'm just not sure how to use it properly.

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give it a try, i bet it is not that hard to setup. Post questions then here ...

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Ok after hours of fiddling around with ubercart I've managed to successfully add file downloads to a product and check out and receive the files! This is truly a great well thought out module. I am really impressed and excited to hopefully use this for my shop If I can manage to turn the audio content type from the audio module into a product type.

What I've tried to turn the audio content type into a product class by going through Manage classes and naming the Class ID and Class name the same as the audio content type but all it does it rename it audio_1 and creates a new content type. Is there a way to do this or am I trying in vain to get this to work?

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I'm afraid you can only turn custom node types into products. Node types from modules have their own node hooks and turning them into products would overwrite them, which defeats the purpose of using that node type in the first place.

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Thank you Lyle, I'm going to attempt to create a product content type that suits our needs by selling audio files using ubercart's file download and cck. So far it looks good, I'm really surprised how powerful cck is, I just love it!