Getting Started With Sky-Tunes...
1) How To Install?
2) How do I log in as admin?
3) How do I change my password?
4) Basic Admin Settings
5) Selling Your Music
6) Payment Settings
7) Page Settings
8) Radio Settings
9) How to upload your music/albums preview?
9.5) How to upload your music/albums preview? On Easy Mode
10) How to rip and cut mp3's in bulk?
11) How to create mp4's with timestamp file?
12) How to add a streaming subscriber?
13) How to add "Audio Ads" to your radio station?
14) Troubleshooting - I had too many login attempts?
15) Troubleshooting - Searchbar and buttons are not working
16) Troubleshooting - Mod_Security
17) Using Site Analytics
18) Selling Beats
19) How To Add, Text Ads?
20) How To Add, Guess Posts?
21) How To Sell My Merch?
22) How To Turn Ads Off On HomePage?
23) I Changed My Domain Name
24) How do I add video files?
25) I hate doing time stamps for my music streaming mp4's
26) I need help naming my album folder
27) How to add "Video Ads" to your Video Playlist?
28) How To Build A Roku Channel?
29) How To Add Newsletter Form?
30) Site Shortcut Links
31) New "sky-tunes-auto.bat" - Create releases faster!
How To Install?
1) Extract sky-tunes.zip.
2) Open ftp, on your site.
3) Paste all files into your root directory of your site...
How do I log in as admin?
Click "Login" at the lower left-hand corner of your homepage. Your default password is @1234. Once you have logged in, you will see settings menu popup. Settings button will also be located at the bottom left-hand corner of your homepage.
How do I change my password?
By default your password is "@1234", you can change this once you have logged in. Under settings in the bottom lefthand corner.
Basic Admin Settings
Once you are logged in you can edit your Title, Description, Author, Keywords, Default Search Term, Record Label Or Artist Name, Contact Email, Website URL and your page colors.
Selling Your Music
Note: You can access these options below by logging in as "Admin". If you are not selling a certain product below, leave it blank and it will not be included on your sales page.
Month Streaming Price
Enter a monthly price you wish to charge for streaming. Note: To provide streaming for your albums, you must upload an mp4 with all your songs listed in it and a txt file with the timestamp for each song. Your mp4 is used for streaming. Month Streaming is a Paypal membership where customers will have a login and password for streaming. You the admin must approve all new signups after payment.
Cost Per Track
Enter a price you wish to charge for each one or your tracks. Also the "Cost Per Track" is added to your media, including usb drive, cd and vinyl. For example, You charge $1.00 per track and your cd cost $5.00. If your cd has 5 tracks the total cost of your Cd will be $10.00. If you sell a digital download album, you will need to send your customer a download link after purchase.
Cost Per USB Album
Enter a price you wish to charge for your USB Album. Also the "Cost Per Track" is added to your media, including usb drive, cd and vinyl. For example, You charge $1.00 per track and your usb album cost $5.00. If your usb has 5 tracks the total cost of your usb album will be $10.00. If you sell a usb album, you will need to send your customer a usb drive with your album songs on it after purchase.
Cost Per Cd
Enter a price you wish to charge for your Cd album. Also the "Cost Per Track" is added to your media, including usb drive, cd and vinyl. For example, You charge $1.00 per track and your cd album cost $5.00. If your cd has 5 tracks the total cost of your cd album will be $10.00. If you sell a cd album, you will need to send your customer a cd with your album songs on it after purchase.
Cost Per Vinyl
Enter a price you wish to charge for your Vinyl album. Also the "Cost Per Track" is added to your media, including usb drive, cd and vinyl. For example, You charge $1.00 per track and your vinyl album cost $5.00. If your vinyl has 5 tracks the total cost of your vinyl album will be $10.00. If you sell a vinyl album, you will need to send your customer a vinyl album with your album songs on it after purchase.
Payment Settings
Note: You can access these options below by logging in as "Admin".
Enter these options to collect payments "Paypal Email", "Cashapp Id", and "Zelle Phone Number".
Page Settings
Note: You can access these options below by logging in as "Admin".
Here you can edit the following "About Us", "Privacy Policy" and "Monetize" ad codes for ads on your webpages.
Radio Settings
Note: You can access these options below by logging in as "Admin".
Here you can edit the following "Radio Description", "Airplay Description" and "Airplay Cost Per Month". You must have a "Airplay Cost Per Month" in order for your "Radio Station" to work.
Your Radio Station works by using playing your 1 min samples that you've upload for your albums. Remember that you want to sell your music. So we do not recommend uploading your full songs.
How to upload your music/albums
Please visited this link, for information on how to upload your album's mp3's, covers, mp4's and more.
Need help naming your album folder? Click Here
How to upload your music/albums - On Easy Mode
Please visited this link, for information on how to upload your album's mp3's. No mp4's or time stamp files are required on easy mode.
Need help naming your album folder? Click Here
How to rip and cut mp3's in bulk?
We recommend using Audacity to rip your mp3's in bulk. Please visited this link, for information on how to rip your music.
How to create mp4's with timestamp file?
We recommend using Videopad to create your mp4's. Please visited this link, for information on how to create your mp4's.
How to add a streaming subscriber?
After you receive a new paypal subscriber, login as admin and add their email and password. To create their streaming account. Please visited this link, for information on how to add your subscriber accounts. Once your subscriber account is created they will get an email with their account info.
How to add "Audio Ads" to your radio station?
1) Login to your site using "FTP" or "File Manager".
2) Click on the folder name "ads", then upload your ads or music in mp3 format. Now these ads or songs will show in your radio playlist.
3) Please visited this link, for more information.
5) Media in your ads folder will play after every 5 songs.
I had too many login attempts.
Close your browser window and use ftp to log into your server. Look for filename "firewall.txt". delete "firewall.txt", to reset your login count.
You Can Also Reset Your Firewall - If you remember your password, you can login to your account from another device and reset your firewall settings. This will clear all blocked ip's from skypress.
Searchbar and buttons are not working
You must log out as admin. If you are logged in as Admin your searchbar and buttons are not working.
Mod_Security - An appropriate representation of the requested resource could not be found on this server. This error was generated by Mod_Security.
This error is not caused by sky-tunes, it is cause by the hosting company blocking the "GET Request". You will have to contact your hosting company, and tell them to unblock "GET Request".
Using Site Analytics
1) Sky-Tunes uses "Supreme Stats" for site analytics. It comes pre-installed, so there's no need to install "Supreme Stats".
2) Click Here For More Info About Supreme Stats
3) Click Here For Supreme Stats Help
Mod_Security - An appropriate representation of the requested resource could not be found on this server. This error was generated by Mod_Security.
This error is not caused by sky-tunes, it is cause by the hosting company blocking the "GET Request". You will have to contact your hosting company, and tell them to unblock "GET Request".
Selling Beats
1) You must upload your album or single previews 1st. See Here
2) Then add the "sell beat.txt" file to your album or single folder. See Here
3) When a customer visits your album page and click "Purchase Beat License", they will see your purchase options. See Here
4) After you've sold a beat, send your customer a download link for your beat. Then email your customer their beat license. See Here
How To Add, Text Ads?
1) To add text ads, turn on "Use Text Ads? (text_ads.txt)" to "Yes" in admin control panel and save. The open "text_ads.txt" to add your ads. See Here...
How To Add, Guess Posts?
1) To add guess posts, turn on "Allow Guess Posts? ("Write For Us")" to "Yes" in the admin control panel and save. See Here...
How To Sell My Merch?
1) To to sell your merch, you must have a image of your item. Size must be 300 X 300 jpg file.
2) Name the filename of your item the same name as your product. Example: "Red Hat.jpg"
3) Now upload your image file to the merch folder in your web directory.
4) You will see a "merch.txt" file in your merch folder. This is your database file. Open your merch file to add your product info.
5) For your 1st product start on the 2nd line, add your product filename follow by an "|" then item's price (optional) follow by another "|" and last your vendor link (optional)
6) Example: "Red Hat.jpg|10|https://ebay.com/my_products/red_hat.html" - Your item will appear in the merch section of your site. Price is $10, and visitors can also purchase your product on your ebay link.
7) The following was just an just an example. For more help See Here...
How To Turn Ads Off On HomePage?
Add "?h_a=off" to your url. Example: https://www.your_url.com?h_a=off
I Changed My Domain Name
If you change your domain name. You will need to delete two .htaccess files below:
1) 1st one is in your stream folder stream/.htaccess
2) 2nd one is in your video folder videos/.htaccess
3) Now go to your home page and the system will automatically build two new .htaccess files that includes your new domain name.
How do I add video files?
1) Follow these steps to add your videos. See Here...
I hate doing time stamps for my music streaming mp4's
I understand, I hate doing time stamps too. Here's an easier way in version 3.3 and higher. See Time Stamps Shortcuts...
I need help naming my album folder
Need help naming your album folder? Click Here
How to add "Video Ads" to your Video Playlist?
1) Login to your site using "FTP" or "File Manager".
2) Click on the folder named "ads_video", then upload your video ads in mp4 format. Now these ads will show in your video playlist.
3) Media will play 1 ad after every video.
How to build a Roku Channel
If you haven't added your json link to your Roku App, follow these steps below:
1) Unzip Roku.zip
2) Open 'Roku' Folder
3) Open 'components' > 'tasks' > 'MainLoaderTask.brs' File
4) Look for xfer.SetURL("");
5) Add your json link URL EX: xfer.SetURL("https://your_website.com/videos/roku.json")
6) Save 'MainLoaderTask.brs' File
You only have to do this one time. After you add new videos to your site. Goto your 'Admin' Login. Then click 'Update Json'. Your Roku json file will update with your new videos. Updating Json For Roku
Adding an Ad Server (Optional)
1) Open 'Roku' Folder
2) Open 'components' > 'tasks' > 'PlayerTask.brs' File
3) Add your raf json link URL, Example change: return "raf.json to: return "https://your_website.com/videos/raf.json"
4) Save 'PlayerTask.brs' File
Replace these images with your own
1) Open 'Roku' Folder
2) Open 'images' folder
3) Replace all images in this folder with your own
All Done
Rezip Roku.zip
Help With Roku Submisson
1) Sign Up For Roku Developer Account to submit your tv app. See Here
2) On Roku submission, make sure your deeplinks are correct and match your roku.json file See Here
Once Your App Is Published - Build Your Roku Search Feed Below
The search feed is a single JSON file that includes the content metadata for an app's video catalog. Cick Here To Build Your Search Feed
How to add newsletter form?
Open "newsletter.html" in you site root director using notepad or other text editior. Then paste your Newsletter Form.
Site Shortcut Links
1) Brings Up Subscribe Form - your-site.com/index.php?m=sub
2) Brings Up Login Form - your-site.com/index.php?m=login
3) Brings Up Newsletter Form - your-site.com/index.php?h_a=newsletter
4) Brings Up Privacy Policy - your-site.com/index.php?h_a=privacy
5) Brings Up Contact Us Form - your-site.com/index.php?h_a=contact_us
New "sky-tunes-auto.bat" - Create releases faster!
1) "sky-tunes-auto.bat" is a windows batch file that build your album folders faster.
2) Download "sky-tunes-auto.zip to your windows pc.
3) Unzip and copy "sky-tunes-auto.bat" & "album_info.txt" to your album folder were your songs are located. Your songs music be ".wav" format. Also include your album cover. You must name your cover "large.png".
4) Open "album_info.txt" and edit with your info. Catalog#, Artist Name & Genre.
number=1
artist=John Doe
genre=Techno
then save
5) After you have edit the "album_info.txt" file run "sky-tunes-auto.bat".
6) Your album folder will be create along with "sell beat.txt", "credits.txt", album "cover.jpg 300 x 300", and "video folder with time stamp file inside". Make sure you check time stamp file "stream2.txt" to see if tracks have correct time.
7) Now add your 1 min mp3 samples to your album folder and add your mp4 video to your "video folder". Now you can upload your album folder to your site. Upload to "stream folder" and your album is ready for streaming.