How do I group similar catalog products (CD & mp3) on the landing page of my Ubercart store?

Question

I'm working on an ubercart/drupal 6 store that sells CD's, Vinyl, MP3's and more. We need to have multiple purchasing options (separate buttons for "buy cd", buy mp3 album") appear under one container for each band's product on the store's landing page.

Right now each album has its own separate product page and sku created for the category it falls into (CD, MP3 & etc.) We haven't been able to make the different purchasing options appear in one container on the store's landing page. Some products have only digital files to download, and others associate with multiple categories. Our attempts to group these have failed (customers get charged for things they didn't select, etc.)

Does anyone know how accomplish this, or has anyone done it before?

Just asking for advice, not for someone to set it up. I'm a Drupal/Ubercart/PHP noob, so I'm probably just missing a really, really simple Ubercart concept.

Answer 1

You can build your own custom "buy" links/buttons using Ubercart's cart links functionality. Here's some documentation: http://www.ubercart.org/docs/1434/cart_links_settings (it's for 1.x but same deal)

I'm not sure if you have these set up as different products or attributes of the same products. You can set a different SKU per attribute (mp3s vs CDs) and only add the file download feature for the mp3 attribute.

You also probably want to search on the ubercart site because several people have done this kind of thing before.