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  dcharvest · Member · Dec 30, 2014 at 5:29 pm

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  I followed the instructions for adding an audio download link from your site here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/uploading-documents/

  However, When I add media under my “Attachment Display settings” I only have the options to Embed Media Player, Link to Media File, and Link to Attachment Page. There is no option for just the “Media File” as you instruct me to select if I would like it to be a download and not just a link to streaming audio. How can I make the link a download?

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Dec 30, 2014 at 6:44 pm

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  The “Link to Media File” option is what you’re looking for! Can you give that a try?

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  dcharvest · Member · Dec 30, 2014 at 7:02 pm

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  I had already tried that. When I use that option it merely opens the audio as a page in my browser. It does not begin a download, nor from that page can I save the audio to my computer (which is what I would like my users to be able to do).

  (You can see the “Testing Audio Download” link under the first audio player on this page: http://dcharvest.org/category/latest-talks/ that does what I am talking about above)

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Dec 30, 2014 at 9:40 pm

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  If you right-click that link and then select “Save Link As,” you should be able to download the audio file. Can you give that a try?

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  dcharvest · Member · Dec 30, 2014 at 10:22 pm

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  That’s a bit convoluted. Is there no way to make it a simple click & download? It’s not great when you have to give people instructions to do it.

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Dec 31, 2014 at 10:09 pm

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  There isn’t a way to automatically turn the link into a download link. To make sure the file is downloaded, they would need to use the “Save Link As” method.