Eos Online Merchant Audio Support?

[David M. Graham]

Excellent.

David

[zip1]

I would say all, since gallery handles images, video, audio, documents.

[David M. Graham]

Tom?

How much of this audio support need would be met by the gallery development currently underway?

David

[David M. Graham]

That last is a large part of why you would need a systematic approach such as I mentioned in my last post.  Lots of plugins out there, and many degrees of freedom in the choices made by both the store owner and the store user.  Likely we can only include a few choices at first, but our design should take into account the need to expand later and make that process easier.

David

[zip1]

samples of the down loads may be best added in the FDS it self, since that is what manages downloads from the site of all kinds.

I call it FDS Because it's a system not a single manager but a system. hence File Distributions System or File Download system.


I also spent some time today looking for some code that will detect what client plugin  is available for a given browser for such sample to be played.

[David M. Graham]

TinyMCE is a plugin itself.  We do intend to build or support alternative plugins such as FCKEditor and perhaps others.

This is one thing which makes the editor a poor choice on which to base stable cart features. - you would have to implement each added feature for each wysiwyg plugin.

Another is that storing the data in the database makes it possible to do things like "New Track" feeds with RSS, and perhaps a centralized Track page.  Simple links in the product page just don't offer as much bang for the buck. 

So, I would tend towards a fully designed, PHP based solution which may be generalized to multiple types of streaming media either as an extension of FDMS or a standalone media manager.

David

[inetbiz]

streaming vs downloads : currently the file download system FDS in EOS is for downloads. But it would be simple to adapt it to what you want.

TinyMCE could be worked out in admin to check box select the types of tags you want to allow instead of using our current PHP file to limit HTML tags? This way, Object imbed, other protocols than http:// could be address as well?

It definitely opens up the viability of content ecommerce rather than a tangible or digital product download? Perhaps, someone would like to sponsor a module development for FDMS to display paid digital content such as a podcast, webcast, etc?

What do you think, community?

[David M. Graham]

This would seem to be a feature which should be product type driven, rather than adding screen space to all product edit pages.

David

[zip1]

streaming vs downloads : currently the file download system FDS in EOS is for downloads. But it would be simple to adapt it to what you want.

Streaming usually involves adding some code to call some specific streaming application. one of the most used it flash.  Tiny mce in EOS can embed the correct code to call a flash player or other media player, in your product description.

or when products tabs gets added, (when it gets added)  or using the configurable product info page and write a modules for samples tracks.

It had not yet accrued to me to add sample tracks but most likely when tabs are Added i will add some stuff for samples since when saleing downloads is makes sense,

[tegralens]

This would seem to me to fall under "streaming content support" rather than "music player" or "video player" support.  Tom has begun some development work which may support this for pages.  A similar approach to that taken for product images may be applied on the product pages.

I would like to see more detailed specifications as to how this should work  from the store owners perspective.  Inclusion of markup snippets and mock layouts would be helpful.  We could open a Wiki page for system design on this and start the design process.

David

In my case I have lets say 10 songs on a cd I would like to see some kind of small box of something easy that a customer would see that they would know it has a sample of the song.  the osplayer was good to me because in each product when I added it there was a box that I would click on that said mp3 and it would create something in the database (I GUESS THE PRODUCT NUMBER AND LOCATION FOR WHERE THE FILE WAS LOCATED.) The program after someone created it abandoned it.  Maybe you guys might want to take a look at it.  Right now it it java based.  I have a link on each product and when I add a sample of the song you can see the link box and someone will click on it and it will open a java flash where they click on the song for that product.  I hope this helps.

[inetbiz]

This would seem to me to fall under "streaming content support" rather than "music player" or "video player" support.  Tom has begun some development work which may support this for pages.  A similar approach to that taken for product images may be applied on the product pages. David

Do we intend to stick with TinyMCE? Possibly just including a plugin for youtube, google video, embed object. Over time, perhaps someone would like to step up and produce a scorm course on publishing video through various utilities such as Real Networks Producer, Windows Video Maker, et al with tweaks and suggestions for codec and file size, etc.

[David M. Graham]

This would seem to me to fall under "streaming content support" rather than "music player" or "video player" support.  Tom has begun some development work which may support this for pages.  A similar approach to that taken for product images may be applied on the product pages.

I would like to see more detailed specifications as to how this should work  from the store owners perspective.  Inclusion of markup snippets and mock layouts would be helpful.  We could open a Wiki page for system design on this and start the design process.

David

[tegralens]

I sell music cd online and I would like to see some kind of mp3 player like the old osplayer.  I think its something people would like because you can same music and maybe even dvd movies.