[The Hedman]

Hi,
I am a composer with my own web site and I would like to allow visitors to download mp3s of certain tracks. For now they will be free to download.
I have a wimpy button for each song which the visitor clicks to stream the music but I can't work out how to let them download it to keep.
The relevant page is www.manyworldsmusic.com/mthedz
Obviously the mp3 files reside on my server along with the swf file and code supplied by Wimpy.
Thanks
Mike

[Callum_Dawson]

Well it varies for different web server types but for IIS you just either make a sub-folder on your website folder, say for example \Downloads\. After making the folder place all of your mp3 files in that. Then you either make a link on your website using
<a href="Downloads">Downloads</a><br /><br />
or you can make download links on the page like
<a href="\Downloads\mySongFile.mp3">Song #1</a><br /><br />

[The Hedman]

Thanks for your reply Callum,
Actually I started playing around before I read your post and I think I made it work,
at least on my Mac. I made a link to the mp3 and if a visitor right clicks it they can download the file (control+click on mac) Perhaps you can try it. You don't have to keep the track...I won't be offended..ha ha.
Mike

[Tact]

yep. making a direct link to the mp3 is the way it should work when you click on it.

i think (not sure) that some poeple might have some software installed or configured a certain way so that such files are played rather than downloaded, (maybe windows media player might do this, or winamp) hard to tell. the easy fix to this is simply giving instructions to the people browsing to "right click" on the link and click "save as" instead IF directly clicking it (left click) prompts a player to play it.

i could be wrong. i do know sometimes quicktime wants to play some songs for me so i have to right click-save as.


another option which i'm not a fan of is people who zip up the file so it's a .zip or .rar. these will ALWAYS trigger the browser to ask the user to save it rather than try to play it.