Hi all,
I am designing a web site for a rock band (www.kingfurnace.co.uk), and need
advice on how I can get people to download our tracks.  I have created links
for each song, and am able to get them to play on my site, but am unable to
bring up a 'download file' prompt, so the viewer can save the mp3 to their h
ard
drive.  Any help would be well appreciated.
Jeff

..oO(jeffro_d)

> I am designing a web site for a rock band (www.kingfurnace.co.uk), and nee
d
>advice on how I can get people to download our tracks.  I have created link
s
>for each song, and am able to get them to play on my site, but am unable to
>bring up a 'download file' prompt, so the viewer can save the mp3 to their 
hard
>drive.  Any help would be well appreciated.

In my browsers it works as expected.

But the images on the site are way too heavy: The download size of the
homepage is more than 2.5MB! Use your image editor to reduce the images
to their final size, don't use HTMl to scale them.

Micha

So were you given the option to download the tracks to your hard drive?

Thanks for the photo advice, will get onto that.

..oO(jeffro_d)

>So were you given the option to download the tracks to your hard drive?

Yep. The server delivers the files with the content type audio/mpeg,
which is how it's supposed to be. If a browser doesn't know how to
handle that type it will show a download dialog.

Micha

You can just have a link to download the track, or do something more fancy a
nd
use some javasript or search for 'how to embed media player in html'

Never stream the track as people visit - I hate web sites that do that. Alwa
ys
offer a choice.

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:30:24 +0100, Michael Fesser wrote:

> .oO(jeffro_d)
> 
>
> Yep. The server delivers the files with the content type audio/mpeg,
> which is how it's supposed to be. If a browser doesn't know how to
> handle that type it will show a download dialog.
>
> Micha

In IE6 I don't get any save option. Instead WMP opens and starts buffering
the track(s)

..oO(Dave Farmer)

>In IE6 I don't get any save option. Instead WMP opens and starts buffering
>the track(s)

Possible, but that's a browser issue.

Micha

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:50:32 +0100, Michael Fesser wrote:

> .oO(Dave Farmer)
> 
>
> Possible, but that's a browser issue.
>
> Micha

The poster wanted the facility to have tracks saved every time as I
understood his point. So in IE6 that won't happen.

Why not put the MP3 files in a zip file and provide a download facility
that way.

..oO(Dave Farmer)

>The poster wanted the facility to have tracks saved every time as I
>understood his point. So in IE6 that won't happen.

It _does_ happen in my IE! I have the choice between opening the file or
saving it to disk.

>Why not put the MP3 files in a zip file and provide a download facility
>that way.

This just makes it more complicated for the user.

Micha

i was wondering...for you to put the music directly on your site so others c
an
listen to it...did you use some type of audio server? or did did you put the
m
into a database and access them from their? how did you do it? thanks