[emalen]

i'm designing a small web site for my brother and need a little web design mp3 related advice.

I would like people to click on a link and download the mp3 - but right now if i link to the mp3.. it opens a new window and plays it in quicktime.

can anyone help me get my desired result of having a user click on a song and have the mp3 downloaded to their computer.

i'm sure there's a really simple line of html i just am not adding!

thanks for any help in advance.....
emalen

[Sage]

How 'bout zipping the file?

[Simon Mundy]

Originally posted by emalen:
i'm designing a small web site for my brother and need a little web design mp3 related advice.

I would like people to click on a link and download the mp3 - but right now if i link to the mp3.. it opens a new window and plays it in quicktime.

can anyone help me get my desired result of having a user click on a song and have the mp3 downloaded to their computer.

i'm sure there's a really simple line of html i just am not adding!

thanks for any help in advance.....
emalen

You need server-side scripting so you can modify the headers information and force the browser to download rather than process the file.

Do you have that on your hosting package?

[emalen]

Originally posted by Simon Mundy:
You need server-side scripting so you can modify the headers information and force the browser to download rather than process the file.

Do you have that on your hosting package?

How do i know if i have server-side scripting..i do have a cgi - bin... i can do php.... is there a specific name for 'server-side scripting'

i doubt you'll have heard of it, but my server is with digitalspace.net

thanks for your help,

emalen

[3R1C]

Heres some php headers for ya...

header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=" . basename($theSongPath) . ";");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: ". filesize($theSongPath));