Posted by aballoon on September 17, 2008 at 4:58am
Hello,
I'm working on a site for a musician who wants to begin building his e-mail list. The main idea now is to start offering free downloads of a song in exchange for a working e-mail address.
I know that something like this could be done with the private module, requiring people to create an account first, be given the private access role and then directed to the URL. This is way too many steps to go through for a casual music fan (not to mention the site admin)....
I'm sure there must be some good options, and I'm open to any and all suggestions!
Thanks,
Jim
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Hey Jim, I recently did this
Hey Jim,
I recently did this for my latest music release over here: http://zirafamusic.com
Basically it involved making a module specifically for the album, assigning the person a token to download the album, and then serving up the file via a stream (the same way private files are served). Anyway you can try it out. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Farsheed
How about you create a node
How about you create a node type that collects email addresses and then automatically send them the link to their e-mail account when they submit. This could be achieved using CCK and Actions. The link could be an unprotected page (or View page that lists all of the MP3 content type) on your site that just happens to not have a link to it. It doesn't sound like you need to really protect this page if you are giving away MP3s for email addresses. Just make sure you add the meta tag to let search bots know not to index the page :-P