Help setting up "Charge for Mp3 Download" Site

I need some leads as to how to go about it!

[stealth_eos]

I own a music label and all our music is owned by me.
I do not intend on selling third party or illegal mp3's.

Essentially it's just me learning everything from scratch and have been doing a good job so far except this:

All our music in online as streaming mp3's...(I still don't even know how to hide our mp3's since when you get the info on the song it shows the url on where it is placed!)

The question is this:

I'm hosted on Ci Host, I don't have a merchant account...I plan to use Paypal for now. What program, script, system do I need to learn to be able to charge $0.99 for High-quality downloads of our music. To basically have a customer select several songs on a cart and then checkout using Paypal and instantly receive a secret link or something of the purchase?

I would appreciate any leads of information I could get.

Thanks

Stealth Eos

[amznVibe]

There are a few scripts to sell "digital goods" via PayPal (use that as your search phrase).
PayPal uses a notification system that you can tap into called IPN.

Be warned that PayPal fees will take a chunk of your 99 cents, I believe you will be left with 66 cents if they buy just one track.

Please see this thread [webmasterworld.com] for their new micropayment annoucement,
which would give you about 87 cents, but it might be tough to qualify for.

[stealth_eos]

Thanks Amzn Vibe,

I actually was thinking of charging $1.49 since it's a unique site...

Are there better options...any easy to qualify merchant accounts? I will be selling cd's as well but that might be time consuming since I plan to print them myself...I just would like to know that anytime 24hrs a day my site has the potential of selling without involving me.

Either way, I don't mind paying so much, even though it is steep, it's better than nothing!

I'll look for some scripts...and see

Thank you, that bit of information helped out.

[stealth_eos]

I found this place and I think it might work...
I've been up all night trying to decipher
everything...All I need to do now is Trust this company.

Does anybody know about [payloadz.com...]

I want to trust it because it's the company that
Madonna used for her "American Life" single
available for download...?

Here's another lead I found...I guess I'm putting these
links on in case someone else runs into my problem.
Though I give All credit to >> amznvibe for leading me to the right place!

[superfreaker.com...]

Keep em coming!

[gorillacyclist]

commersus cart (ASP) offers digital download facility adn paypal payment gateway
hope this helps

[amznVibe]

I just spotted this $10 script too [hotscripts.com], maybe it will help.

[stahlhammer]

I'm also working on a plan to sell songs on a website I run for a band. So far Payloadz seems the best from what I've found, although it does apparently have a steep fee.. 1/3 the cost? I don't think I would qualify for the special "3000 transactions per month" thing they offer either.

I have a question about the Payloadz code that they apparently give you to run this service. Do you know if this is available in PHP? From what I have read, it keeps saying ASP... and the server I'm hosted on doesn't support ASP. It's not a windows server.

Also, just a side-question to stealth_eos: What file type and quality would you make these files in? This band wants me to use the highest quality possible. I would use a very high quality MP3, but I'm getting the idea they want some better file type or something. Any suggestions?

Thanks.