Album

An album, or perhaps more accurately an album player, is configured in NeuCart's Admin Area as a way to display multiple audio samples within one box, while having both navigation links and "Add to Cart" links in the display area. While the functionality is referred to as an "Album", this feature can be used to group any collection of products with audio files that a customer may want to see.

This page discusses a configuration page from the Admin Area. This feature or functionality was introduced in version 4.73. This article discusses music features or functionality.

Configuration

Within the Albums form view page, an administrator configures the basic properties of an album, and also the individual tracks within the album. Each track is configured with:

• The name of the track as it appears in the album player. This field can include HTML if necessary (a <br> tag to create multiple lines is common).
• The sample audio file that will play when the play button is pressed.
• The MP3 product that will be added to the cart when someone uses the "Add to Cart" link for the MP3 on the player. Also, a navigation link will also be created to point to that product.
• The PDF product that will be added to the cart when someone uses the "Add to Cart" link for the PDF on the player. Also, a navigation link will also be created to point to that product.

Bulk-Add Tracks by Category

In addition to adding tracks one-by-one, the Album Form View page allows administrators to add multiple tracks at one time. By using the "Add multiple tracks from category" button, an administrator can select a category of MP3 products and add all those MP3s as tracks at once. Since most stores configure categories such that all MP3s of the same album are in one category, this functionality makes the process of creating albums much faster.

Configure Products to Display the Album

After an album is configured, a product must be configured to display the album. There are two ways to do this:

• The common way is to set a product's "Media Player Type" to "Use NeuCart HTML5 Album Player", and then to select the name of the album that should appear for the product.
• The less common option is to add magic text anywhere in the product's description. This text, in the format ~neucart_album:2~ (where "2" represents the ID of the album) will be replaced with the album with the ID of 2. For this reason, the album IDs display while editing albums.

See also

Music Features and Functionality	Album • Audio Preferences • Sample Audio Files
Learning series: Music Features and Functionality

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