file will play but not download

  • Resolved elijah-b

    (@elijah-b)


    14 years, 4 months ago

    I haven’t seen anyone else with this problem, so I’ll ask. I want to allow people to both be able to listen to an mp3 and to download the file by pressing a button.

    I’ve found that the inline player allows playing, but the only way that a download of a file can happen is by pasting in an image of a button and linking the file to it and having people right-click to save, as can be seen here:
    https://bibletruthforyou.com/3-the-tutor

    I’ve tried linking the mp3 to a button but what happens is that it plays but won’t allow a ‘save download’ box to open.

    Can anyone advise how I can enable a button that will download but not play? Thanks.

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  • Thread Starter elijah-b

    (@elijah-b)

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    Thread Starter elijah-b

    (@elijah-b)

    Maybe what I wrote is unclear, so I’ll try to be more clear.

    Currently people can listen to a file via an inline mp3 player, which is fine.

    Lots of other sites allow this, but they also allow the downloading of the same file to people’s computers. I can’t do that [unless I bury the link inside an image].

    Currently, if I paste a link in a post, the autoplayer takes over when the link is clicked; the right-click-to-download doesn’t appear at all; adobe prevents it.

    The remedy may be very basic, but I’d really like to know, please, how I can have BOTH the autoplay AND the ability to download.

    Edit: Have you tried using the eclosure functionality?

    Thread Starter elijah-b

    (@elijah-b)

    Thanks for that: a re-examination of the settings has shown me a solution. I’ll write it here in case anyone else has the problem in the future.

    The plugin is wpaudioplayer. In settings–general is a tick box ‘Replace all links to mp3 files’; untick this box and you’ll get both a download link by title, and a player icon under that. Not quite the way I wanted it [I’d like the order reversed] but it’s much better than I had.

    Now I only have to go over each of my 270 posts of files to make the changes to remove the image-links I have used until now.

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