Hello!
I work at a recording studio and we’ve decided that we want to start offering instrumental music to our clients to either lease or purchase.
Ideally, we want users to be able to search for our music multiple ways. The 2 most important being a search bar, and drop-down menus.
I have never designed anything like this before and feel like I’m in over my head. In theory, it makes sense that our music should be cataloged in a database collection, however, I’ve noticed that music files cannot be attached to these collections.
Is this a project that is possible to do on Wix, or would we be better off paying someone to make a site like this for us?
Not sure if I can post links in here, but some examples of websites that we’re trying to replicate are beatstars.com & premiumbeat.com
Any and all help is appreciated! Thanks for your time!
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HI Jesse,
My name id Oded and I’m part of Wix media team which is working these days on the next generation of audio player and audio files support.
I’m happy to tell you that as part of this project we are in the final stages of enabling Corvid support for Audio type (Should be released in few weeks).
Once this feature would be available, the implementation of search and drop down would be simple enough. It will allow you to add audio files to the collections and offer your users exactly what you aim for.
Would be also interesting for us to hear what else you are missing to complete your site, if any.
Please let me know if we can help you with anything else.
Thanks,
Hi Oded,
Thanks for responding to my post! I’m glad to hear that Wix is working on an in-house solution to this problem.
After some digging, I found a website called airbit.com which sells music stores that you can embed into your website. I made an account with them and have embedded their music store into my Wix site. Their music player is aesthetically pleasing and also features different search options such as keywords, genre, mood, key, and tempo. It costs $20 a month to use their service.
I like Airbit’s player, but would love to try my hand at using Wix’s tools. When creating the site, the music player/organization of music files was the biggest hurdle, and I feel like we’ve overcome it. Everything else is quite straightforward.
Thanks again!
Thank you very much, but I think it is advisable to provide lyrics as well because a lot of people like listening.
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Hi @oded-nachshon ,
I am building Music Licensing sites for Music Supervisors to browse and download music tracks from. You’d asked what we may be missing to complete our music sites.
I have successfully integrated music on dynamic pages uses a repeater and connecting to a dynamic database using the new audio player. That works great.
However, I also need to allow users to download the mp3 file. I am adapting code I KNOW works for downloading pdfs. And I know it’s possible to download images and videos using similar code and Wix Location (to) api: eg.
wixLocation.to(https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/${](wixLocation.to(https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/${url}?dn=${name}.pdf)) [url](wixLocation.to(https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/${url}?dn=${name}.pdf)) [}?dn=${](wixLocation.to(https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/${url}?dn=${name}.pdf)) [name](wixLocation.to(https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/${url}?dn=${name}.pdf)) [}.pdf) or
wixLocation.to([https://static.wixstatic.com/media/$](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/$) {url}?dn=${filename});
So I tried using that similar code to adapt to downloading music files.
However, you’ll see in the example below it says "‘link’ does not exist on ‘#audioplayer1’
But I know from my Media Manager, each of the mp3 files has a unique url hosted by Wix eg. " https: //static.wixstatic.com/mp3/{filename}" .
Is this something I simply don’t have control over? Am I perhaps just missing something in my code? Or do we need Wix Corvid to provide access to the track url?
Thank you!
