How to protect mp3s from being ripped from source code
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Hey,
I’m trying to figure how to stop mp3s I post on my blog being so easy to rip from the source code. Any new stuff, especially unreleased stuff, I post I obviously don’t have downloadable, but anybody can just go into the source code and find the .mp3 link and download it.
I’ve seen a lot of blogs at least have the .mp3 links encoded, but can’t see an option to do this on the WordPress audio player, and encoding them externally doesn’t work.
Other blogs with the exact same audio player don’t even have any .mp3 links in the source code, how do you do that? That’s the ideal, but I’d be happy enough just encoding them for the time being.
Any help would be appreciated!
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“Other blogs with the exact same audio player don’t even have any .mp3 links in the source code”
Which other blogs? I do not believe you can do that on a WordPress.com hosted blog. Your best option is to use a Flash medium of some kind instead of the regular audio embedder, and embed it in your blog via the Gigya Shortcode. As far as I know that’s near-impossible to crack. I have tried, god knows.
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Any suggestions of these types of players? With one of these can you still host the mp3s on WordPress?
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Take a look though this post by Panos: http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/alternative-audio-players/ . Which do and do not have a link to the audio file I have no idea. You will have to do some testing to find out.
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The (sad) bottom line is: Anything you do not want ripped off, do NOT put on the web. Someone will figure out how to steal it no matter what you do.
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