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Taking a sprinkling of the same magic used in our other MusicBox stacks we now present MusicBox Store edition.

After the great reception of MusicBox we had been asked if we could make a playlist but, also allow for links back to your own Amazon or iTunes listed album pages. We took the opportunity to make a few changes along the way to make this all possible in this new Stack element that integrates a playlist, audio player and additional link buttons. However, the killer feature is that this is all controlled and managed from a simple Google Doc (spreadsheet) so you can make changes on the fly without a republish!

Perfect for displaying track samples whether you are a in a band, voice-artist or musician looking to showcase and promote and sell your audio.

No coding experience is required all you need to follow are these three easy steps that we cover in more detail with our User Guide.

• setup a simple list in a Google Docs to your media, artwork and store links
• Publish your Google document
• Add the MusicBox Store Stack element to your page with your document key

Features:

• No PHP required
• integrated mp3 player and playlist
• create a list in a Google Doc (spreadsheet), changes made in the document update the player track list. You can also share the document with other editors or your clients.
• support images in the player (can be for each track if you like)
• Add links to your Amazon, iTunes purchase page
• additional support for links to CartLoom digital products, a very nice shopping cart made by YabDab
• looks and plays great in Firefox, Safari, iPad and iPhone

Requirements

• A public (published) Google doc matching the format we describe in our User Guide
• MP3 tracks need to be public on the web, if it cannot be opened in a standalone browser window then the player will work correctly.

Limitations

• only one musicbox store-playlist stack in a page for now
• no mixing in the same page with other MusicBoxes

MusicBox is the first in a series of powerful new stack elements that allow you to create a powerful mp3 (HTML5) audio playlist with intgerated player controls.

The first two editions off the SymfoniP production line allow you to create a dynamic playlist and control that remotely from a Google Spreadsheet Document, or from a text list maintained on DropBox .

You can then share, have other collaborators or your clients editing, adding to the MusicBox playlist dynamically without touching your RapidWeaver project again. We like to think of these as Audio Stacks with some extra CMS enabled sauce.

MusicBox is perfect for providing audio portfolio samples whether you are a

• musician
• voice artist
• want to share audio with other visitors to your site, a podcast list for example
• building a band web site

Key Features

• create an audio player with playlist without any coding know-how
• no more republishing of audio files (yes it can be a pain) in your RapidWeaver project , saving you time in publishing and editing
• playlist file generation is dynamic
• enable downloads of an audio track ( optional per track configuration , see relevant User Guide for the Gdoc or drop(box)list editions)
• Plays great on iPad in HTML5 mode and even supports Flash playback for those browsers that do not play nice with HTML5. This is all automatic in MusicBox!
• Color configuration for background and track text elements in a single MusicBox stack
• multiple MusicBoxes are supported in the same Stacks page as shown in our demo site

Requirements

• PHP 5.x server support
• Stacks Plugin Supported Versions 1.4.x or 2.x
• Audio tracks already encoded as mp3, 128Kbs fixed rate provides the best results , remember this is the web we are talking about
• playlist configuration file needs to be publicly accessible for MusicBox to access it
• of course a Google Spreadsheet … we talk about that setup in our User Guide too. A public DropBox text file, or even a public file that is maintained on your web server.

Demo

Check out our live demo page with both the drop(box)List and Gdoc MusicBox editions both active on the same page.

Bundle Pricing

Buy both editions and save 3 Euros.

We are pleased to announce that the symSound family of Audio Stacks after many many months of being in Flash mode :)  have been rewritten and now support : 

* iPad and iPhone playback, this is huge as the previous release was Flash based.
* MP3, AAC media types now playable across all browser formats

HTML 5 native Audio Playback is available for : Mobile Safari (iPhone, iPad). The other browsers that do not support this format will get automatic Flash playback.

If you have never used our Audio stacks before? We take an add once approach and all the magic is performed behind the scenes to generate the audio players. All you have to do is add links to audio files ( that audio can be in assets/resources or on your server), yes you can even have an audio player in the Sidebar with our Stacks too.

View Demo:
We have a short intro video showing you the 4 Stacks (Spin, Linear, FatDeck and the new PlayButton audio players) in action as well as individual demo page links all from the symSound Product Page

Our user guide covers all the various stack inspector options that are available to you in more detail

Special Bundle Offer:
All 4 Audio Stacks retail for €5.99 however until Dec 24th 2010 5pm UK time . You can pickup all 4 of these Audio Stacks for €15 (excl taxes that may be applicable to buyers in the EU) after that the bundle price will be increased.

Enjoy and Happy Holidays everyone.

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