Audio Player & Downloading
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This is probably a stupid question, but…
Is there a have songs on my site for listening only, with no way to download them?
I receive songs from artists to post on my site. Some of them don’t mind if the song is downloadable, but some of them do not want songs available for download. They would rather people listen to them and that’s it.
I’ve been using the audio player, but if someone wanted to download a song a quick look at a page’s source would provide the location of the song.
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Ooops. My fingers got ahead of me.
That second sentence should read, “Is there a way to have songs on my site for listening only, with no way to download them?”
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Sorry, I don’t have an answer to the question, rather just more questions and thoughts on the subject. I’m curious about the same question for my page as well.
Lately, I’ve began to wonder what things AREN’T downloadable…? For example, on MYSPACE music pages the mp3 players there allow the owner of the page to decide whether they want their tracks available for download or not. If they allow them to be downloaded the download button is highlighted and you can download it, if not then the button is not active.
However, I just discovered a few days ago that if you install the lovely Firefox extension Video Download Helper then you can not only download videos from sites such as you tube, but you can also download mp3s from myspace music pages whether the owner has their mp3s up for download or not.
Where there’s will there’s a way it seems.
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Please don’t bump threads: that’s not the done thing here.
We can’t really answer general downloading questions; google is probably better for that. This is the forum for support of WordPress.com technical issues.
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Sorry for the bump. As for my original question, I figured since I’m asking about downloading on my wordpress.com blog that this would be a good place to ask.
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My mistake; I thought you were the other guy.
I use the WordPress audio player, and haven’t been able to figure a way to download from that; if you use the Odeo player, it might mask the urls of each individual song, though. I’m not savvy enough to figure that out all the way down to the code.
I look on the internet as a way to share information, and thieves will always be out there. It’s a risk, but it’s one I’m willing to take. Everyone has to draw their own lines, though.
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Sorry about that…I wasn’t trying to be totally off topic (I’m not really sure what “bumping a thread” means), what I was trying to say is 1) that I also haven’t been able to find a way to put up audio without it not being easily downloadlable. If you right click on the links you can save them. 2) Even if there is a way to change the setting so that they are not open to being downloaded, like audio links on myspace are technically not open for downloading, it doesn’t seem like they really are safe. There always seems to be programs that can get around them.
I apologize in advance if I’m still “bumping this thread” … I’m trying to be on topic here.
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The way this forum works is you post a question and then only bloggers who think they have answers post their responses. It seems you will have to wait until another blogger comes along who can help you.
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mrdoxey – I just checked out your page (some nice music btw) I saw some audio players that would play the song on the page, and some separate “download” links. The audio players up on there don’t seem like they are easily download-able, are they?
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I would do the following myself since you are pasting the link in for the audio player anyways:
[audio=http://yourdomain.com/yoursong.mp3] <a href="http://yourdomain.com/yoursong.mp3" target="_blank">Download</a>While I know that most browsers will just open up a player to play the song, it still makes a page where users can at least download the file though.
Trent
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Sorry, I guess I didn’t explain well enough…
Yes, there are posts with both “download” links and audio players in them. The download links are for songs where the artist has given the okay for a song to be downloaded. For those I include the song in the audio player as well so readers can listen to it before downloading to see if they even want it.
Other times I only include the song in an audio player with no download link because the artist doesn’t want the song downloaded. The problem is, if someone really wanted to download a song that was in the audio player all they would have to do is look at the source code for my page and the location where the song is hosted can be found.
An example would be this post… http://strivin.com/2007/11/06/the-jacka-aspen/
There is no download link, just a song in the audio player. If you look at the source code though you can find this part… http%3A%2F%2Fwww.archive.org%2Fdownload%2FTheJacka-aspen%2FTheJacka-Aspen.mp3
Paste that into your browser and remove some of the extra characters that are added by wordpress and you end up redirected here… http://ia351403.us.archive.org/1/items/TheJacka-aspen/TheJacka-Aspen.mp3
The song can then be downloaded from that location.
I want to avoid this and was wondering if there was a different audio player I could use on wordpress that wouldn’t show a file location in the source code. I’m guessing there isn’t though.
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As far as I know, there isn’t one at all, not just on WP.com. The closest thing I can think of is Project Opus, but once you post it on Facebook it becomes crackable.
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