Maian Media Free
Current development now allows the system to be extendable using a template framework. Marc Wolf from http://www.nibiri.com/ has donated a couple of templates to the community and can help customize it to your needs.
Features include:
Front end Language Selection
New upload/ file manger
Sale reconciliation
New Backed User Interface
Import of 1.0 Tables and back up of 1.5 tables for easier upgrades in the future.
Drag and Drop Ordering of Tracks
Ability to add two paypal emails (For Standard Payments and Micro Payments). Maximize profits!!
Flash Uploader
File browser to album art
Ajax cart (Experimental)
Free Download Section with Newsletter Integration (CCNewsLetter and Acajoom) Nothing is truly free ;)
Ability to show download link on the thank you page
FlashChart for Statistics
Export Sales to CSV file
Added menu control for extra customization
System Checker to verify settings
Add unlimited albums
Group tracks into albums
XHTML/CSS public layout
Premium Beat flash music player for mp3 previews
Store mp3 files outside of web root for security
Store album mp3 files in their own folders
Expiry limits for downloads and download page for track protection Built in check to prevent linking to download page
Option for discount if whole album is purchased
Supports 15 currencies
Paypal IPN test mode available via Sandbox Optional
Structure albums as parent/child association. ie: Sub categories
Optional SMTP send mail option
Option to include artwork download link with full album purchase
Graphical stats to view most popular track/album purchases
Search engines for both public and admin interface
Simple cart system
Option to add smaller mp3 file for previews
Template driven for easy HTML editing
Public interface contact option
Option to contact buyers from admin interface
View sales in admin area with album/track purchase details
About and Licence pages updateable via settings
Option to re-send download link to buyer
Paypal PDT added to give customters a more streamlined experince.
Multiple music players taken from the Music Box.
Translations
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Dutch by http://www.jeejeestudio.nl
French by http://www.anatalprostudio.com
German by http://www.samplepark.com/
Arabic by http://www.elbehiry.com (Front End Only)
Spanish by http://www.DisfruteLaVida.com (Front End Only)
Greek Translation by http://www.mpc.gr
Slovak by http://www.etrading.sk
Portuguese by Elias Jahn
Please report any bugs you find using
http://support.aretimes.com
I just want to first say great product! I was looking for something like this and it does everything I want it to. It's easy to instal, upload music etc. The only problem i had was removing the "prices in US$" text as I am in AUSTRALIA from the downloads page and also couldn't find how to enable uploading the whole album at once like on the demo page. I have asked on the forum and through the contact us page but no reply, so I'm not sure that the help is that good. Other than that its a great product.
Thanks!!! It's reviews like this that keep me going!!!
I hope that as the developer continues to refine this extension that some code clean-up is performed and that true MVC architecture is implemented to allow for template overrides, but having seen the active development and generous support program in action, I have every confidence that will happen. This is a great component that is only getting better.
One weird thing was that I couldn't figure out how to sort albums arbitrarily. They can be sorted alphabetically or upon date of entry. I wanted them by release date, and that wasn't a possibility. BUT - you can sort by pageviews for each album. I assigned 99,000 views to the oldest album, 98,000 views to the second oldest and so on. Then when I sorted by hit count, the albums are sorted as I wanted them to be. When new albums are released, I'll give them the next 1000 number down, and so on.
I cannot stress enough how powerful, amazing and unbelievably free this is! Once my new site starts generating income, this developer will be first on my list to send $$ to.
A very very happy webmaster.
Thanks!!! Reviews like this make all the late nights worth it. I thought that I had added the ability to sort albums by ad date. I'll add it to the next release along with a new way of creating custom templates.
Thanks for your effort and dedication and kindness in their response. MAIN MUSIC is an excellent product, first class support, congratulations to the developer, we salute you from Costa Rica www.salsayson.com band. PURA VIDA
There are some limitations but you can adjust the template and some other files and use it for selling electronic documents as I do.
It's really easy to use it and to manage your files. The developer did an outstanding job. Thanks for it once again! Five stars.
It was very easy to configure and the support forums were extremely helpful!
I will definetely donate to aretimes.com..
Really..A Great Job and Well Done!
Thanks for the review yea I'm working hard at adding some more functions to the component.
Opening tabs of extensions for download that looked interesting in the list and appeared to offer what I needed.
After exhaustively trying several of the other extensions to improve the asset catalog, I install the Maian Music CMP.
I imported my database into MM, no problems.
Then noticed that I could link a PayPal IPN... and was able to do micro-payments; something that was on my wish list.
This extension is absolutely amazing for my Aud Site :) Thank you!
Cheers,
SD
PS: I don't know if you're working on reading the meta data from imported audio or not; I may have an hour or so over the holidays to add it in. KYP
Thanks for the review. It's good to know that not everyone runs into problems using my extension. Reading the metadata is next on my list of improvements but I just haven't had a lot of time recently. You are welcome to make any changes to the software to fit your needs and I will attempt to add them to the component.
The component is great, flexible, and the support is THE BEST. I have paid over $300 for a few components and the support for those doesn't even compare. Thank you so much! Job well done.
The only drawback is that it is hard to read on templates with dark background and light letters
Thanks for the review. In the future i am going to add some more control over the look and feel. Hopefully this will address peoples concern with darker templates.
There are a lot of sites out on the Internet that offer unsigned artists a place to sell their music, but all of them charge high fees and/ or take a big chunk from each sale.
Maian Music is the perfect solution... it allows an artist to sell direct, without having to pay a middleman.
Easy to install
Breeze to setup
Very flexible
Very tweak-able
Great navigation
Smooth cart flow
The list goes on...
Yes, I made a donation, not only because of a job well done, but also because I really appreciate that you donated your time to help out unsigned artists (for the record, I'm not a musician, but have built sites for friends that are unsigned artists).
I have no idea how ANYBODY could ever give this extension a bad review. I've used many, many extensions, both free and paid, and this one ranks among the best I've ever used.
-Danny
Thanks for the review. I know this isn't the best piece of software in the world but I put a lot of time into making it native for Joomla 1.5. My day job demands a lot of me and so does my home life and on top of that I'm a musician. It's hard to manage my time to support this thing. I've been in the same boat as a lot of starving artist out there and that is the only reason why I keep on trucking. The beer money from donations help a bit to :) Thanks again.
I put 6 months of my off time into creating this component which is FREE!!! Maybe you should use Itunes or something else to sell your downloads. It is obvious that you can't read or have any basic sense of file navigation. I have said over and over again use the absolute path for the mp3 downloads and the previews should be in your joomla install.
The upload was added as a convince and so was the systems check so I would not get that same question over and over again from people how can’t figure out what the location to a folder means because they use these fly by night hosting services. but maybe I should remove it and just have people upload there tracks via ftp like the 1.0. if you can't figure out how file paths are set up then it is not my obligation to teach you.
Many people have different server configuration and I can't account for all of them. If you are getting a file does not exist error then you don't know what you are doing point blank. I provide free support but that is about to change. I am not going to waist my time supporting something that is free for ungrateful people like you. You could have posted your problem on the support board I and would of got to it eventually.
As far as the forum I am using fireboard and that has a bunch of problems within it's self.
The extra navigation bar should be put into a module, or be made more friendly to templates with a "thin" body.
Overall Great
Thankyou
Paul
Thanks for the review and your suggestion. I'm will add that functionality the All In One Module.