stop people from accessing mp3 files on my server?

It was an interesting question, so I took a look around. I don’t think preventing hotlinking using .htaccess would work, but I found the below. Basically, however, the answer seems to be that a determined user can’t be stopped.

https://www.longtailvideo.com/support/forums/jw-player/feature-suggestions/7262/how-to-prevent-downloading-and-leeching

QUOTE

Put the MP3s outside the web root and stream them with a PHP file that sends no cache headers. You can also check in here to make sure they have a valid PHP session so posting links directly to you PHP script won’t work. Thats 95% of the leachers taken by removing direct URLs and remopving cacheing.