Follow this steps to install properly Music Collection into your Joomla! 1.5.x distribution:

• Download the zip file, in "Your Orders" link on the User Menu, to your computer.
• Unzip it. You'll find about eight files in it, the component itself and some plugins and modules
  
• Go to the administrator area of your site, and install the component using the Joomla! installer. The component file is called "com_muscol_XXX.zip" or "com_muscol_XXX_pro.zip" (XXX stands for the version). Be sure to follow the instructions about creating folders. Theese are:
  
  • Create the following hierachy of folder inside your IMAGES directory, on the root of you Joomla! installation
    
    • albums
      • thumbs_40
      • thumbs_115
    • artists
    • album_extra
      
      • album_name
      • artist_name
    • formats
    • tags
  • Create a folder named "songs" in the root your Joomla! installation
• Copy the file "cd.png", located in /components/com_muscol/ to the "formats" folder you just created in the "images" directory
• Go to Music Collection administor area and click on "Parameters" icon to set up basic configuration for the component. Be sure to do that before you start working with Music Collection
• Install and enable the plugin JWPLAYER, included in the downloadable zip file, and also downloadable from the downloads area for free. It's called plg_jwplayer_XXX.zip
• The rest of the modules are optional. You can install them all, none, or some... :)
  
• ...you're DONE!

Some important thoughs:

• If you get a blank page when installing the component, then the installation script is exhausting your memory_limit OR your max_execution_time PHP variables. You should increase them through your php.ini configuration file.
• If you get an XML Parsing error when installing some modules... don't worry. It happens some times, but the modules install fine anyway.
• If you see some strange code on your music collection backend, that looks ugly... your short_open_tags PHP variable is OFF. You should turn it to ON, also on your php.ini file.
• If you get some Notices on the component like "Notice: Undefined variable:"... you should just disable PHP notice system, wich is joomla recomendation. Go to your Joomla configuration panel and set error_reporting to none, or minimum. If it does not work, you can still do it through the php.ini file, modifying the ERROR_REPORTING variable.

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