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Is there a way for customers to preview digital music?

djzero23

asked about 12 months ago

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In order to sell the music, we need to have 30sec to 60sec previews of the songs in the store. I viewed some big cartel sites that sell music but they don’t have song previews on site. Thanks in advance. 

  1. Answer

    Chancestaff

    responded 12 months ago

    We don’t currently offer a way to preview audio through Pulley, but this is something you could setup separately on your website using a 3rd-party mp3 widget perhaps. Some sort of solution for audio/video/product previews is on our radar though. 

  2. djzero23

    responded 12 months ago

    Ok thanks Chance. I think it is important to have them in the same place. It doesn’t make sense to me to preview here then buy there, I think that won’t work very well for customers. 

  3. Chancestaff

    responded 12 months ago

    For instance, if you’re using Pulley with Big Cartel, you could use Googles audio widget (code to follow) or any other audio widget and paste their embed code into the product description in Big Cartel. This will give your customers a chance to preview your tunes before they buy, all in the same place.

    To use Googles audio widget:

    1. Upload your mp3 to your server
    2. Paste the embed code into your product description in Big Cartel: 
      <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="audioUrl=yourPreview.mp3" src="http://www.google.com/reader/ui/3523697345-audio-player.swf" width="400" height="27" quality="best"></embed>
    3. Replace yourPreview.mp3 with the url to your mp3

    If you can’t store files on your own server you could check out a music service like soundcloud.com or virb.com to host your music.

  4. djzero23

    responded 12 months ago

    Oh I see. Thanks so much. I thought that you meant have the previews on a different part of the site. I can absolutely set up the files on the server and implement an embed code. Is the site html5?

  5. Chancestaff

    responded 12 months ago

    Sorry for the confusion. What I meant was that Pulley/Big Cartel doesn’t currently offer out of the box solutions for audio previews. But, with a little work, they’re totally doable.

    Big Cartel is not written in html5 but, if you’d like to use an audio player built in html5, I don’t see that being a problem (so long as your customers' browsers support it).

  6. djzero23

    responded 12 months ago

    Thanks very much Chance for your detailed responses!

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