Digital downloads

[Prabodh]

Hi,
I am hosting a e-commerce website where i want to sell music online.
How do I create albums consisting of multiple songs?
How do I make all the songs available to the user upon one time payment for entire album

I am a newbie to PrestaShop. Please explain in detail.

Thanks in Advance

[phrasespot]

Only one file per digital product AFAIK. You could create a zip, or another container, to serve multiple files. When adding a new product (Back Office >> Catalogue.. [category?] >> Add a new product) check the "Is this a downloadable product?" checkbox, the rest is self explanatory.

[Prabodh]

I am hosting the application on a Shard Server.

My max limit for a file to upload is 15 MB. Hence i cannot upload a complete album in one zip / archive file.

How do i achieve this?

[phrasespot]

Do you have access to server (ssh etc), you could zip them on the server.

[Prabodh]

i have FTP access to the server.
I can upload any amount of zip / archive files through FTP. But then how do i proceed after that?

[phrasespot]

1- Create the digital product and upload a dummy file, (any file, the smaller the better), name it appropriately during product entry and enter other relevant info correctly for the actual album.
2- FTP to your site and upload the actual album as a zip file to /[presta_base]/download directory.
3- Check your DB table "[prefix]_product" and make a note of the "id_product" column of the digital product you created in step 1.
4- Check your DB table "[prefix]_product_download" and make a note of the "physically_filename" column value of the row with the id_product column value you noted in step 3. The value will be a 40 long hex string.
5- FTP to /[presta_base]/download directory and delete the file named the value you noted in step 4.
6- Rename actual file you uploaded in step 2 to the value you noted in step 4, (omitting any file extension as was with the file you deleted in step 5).

[tomerg3]

This is an old topic, but I have been asked the same question recently and this is a good place to answer.

 

You can create multiple attributes for the product (each can have a different price), for example

All songs = $10

Song 1 = $1

Song 2 = $1

etc....

 

Using http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/104840-batch-downloadable-product-pro-multiple-downloadable-files-per-product-and-attribute-specific/ you can assign a different downloadable product for each combination.