Why are the audio links that we have on our website now downloading to my PC ins

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  woodlandchapelsalem · Member · Dec 13, 2013 at 2:47 am

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  Why are the audio links that we have on our website now downloading to my PC instead of playing like they used to? In Firefox they play, but in IE/Chrome, they download to a Download folder on my C: drive. They didn’t use to do that. What is up?!?

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  kraftbj · Staff · Dec 13, 2013 at 7:32 pm

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  Howdy,

  Can you send me a link to a page with the audio links?

  If the link is a “typical” link, then it is up to the browser’s settings whether or not it plays or downloads when it is clicked on.

  You can embed audio so it will show a player in the browser virtually all the time by using the instructions at http://en.support.wordpress.com/audio/

  Cheers!

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  woodlandchapelsalem · Member · Dec 18, 2013 at 11:49 pm

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  Here is one of the pages with audio links.

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  kraftbj · Staff · Dec 19, 2013 at 3:51 pm

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  Thanks.

  Your links are the typical kind, which means it is up to the browser (and the viewer’s settings) if they’ll play within the browser or trigger a download. There’s not anything we can change about that.

  If you want to force it to be played in the browser, you can wrap it in an [audio] shortcode as described in the link I sent in the last response.

  If you have any questions or need anything else, please let me know. Cheers!