Hacking the Aleratec Roboracer LS Duplex MAC/WIN for Audio CD Duplication with Correct Metadata

2014-09-01: A few years ago I bought an Aleratec Roboracer LS for Mac in order to help streamline the production of CD’s for sending off to distribution centers such as CD Baby, Interpunk, Pandora etc. It was a smart buy and I’m glad I did it as it has saved me time and money in …

Site Development Status: Ingest of 3rd Party Sales Data

Whew! I made a major milestone in getting the site up to snuff! I now have at least a manual entry tool that will let me take the outputs of my daily CDBaby web-crawler & web-scrape runs and import them into woo-commerce by SKU and correctly handle product bundles and vendors. That really doesn’t sound …

New Site Development Status: New Licensing and Sampler Submission Page

Well, site development is going along fairly well. I just finished getting the sampler Licensing and song transfer page up and running for artists that we’ve selected to be on the sampler albums. That’s been a HUGE goal of mine to streamline that process. Scratch that one off the list! Next up: Re-working my CDBaby …

WooThemes “Product Vendors” Error and Patch

Update: The below still also applies up through “Product Vendors” v1.1.11 as the developer still has not patched the error.  (I notified and had a lengthy e-mail conversation with WooThemes support and also sent them the code patch below on 2015-02-22) Issue: Using the WooThemes “Product Vendors” v1.1.8 When I manually enter an order for …

New WWRKDS Website Development Status

I’ve been recently putting in a LOT of work on getting a new Willful Wreckords Site up and running that should be a significant upgrade to our online presence. My goals for this project: – Unification of informational content with the online store functions and royalty + affiliate account management. – Make it look less …

How to modify WooThemes Product Add-Ons for multi-file upload

So as I’ve been switching over to Word Press and woo-commerce for the site there are a few modifications that I needed to do.  One thing that I needed was to be able to have customers upload their files and metadata and link them to orders for studio services (mastering, etc).  So I purchased the …