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/ablums preview?
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?
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/ablums
Please visited this link, for information on how to upload your album's mp3's, covers, mp4's and more.
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 ablum or single previews 1st. See Here
2) Then add the "sell beat.txt" file to your ablum or single folder. See Here
3) When a customer visits your ablum 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...