Working with Cloud Storage

Hi,

First of all thank you very much for your work. You know I really appreciate it.

As a general improvement for file managing I’d like to ask you for some kind of cloud storage services integration, like Google Drive. Actually that’s my case.

I’ve read Why won’t my Google Drive files work? FAQ article and realised that it could be great to use a cloud service like Google Drive to serve audio files. That will reduce bandwidth traffic and I’m sure it’ll improve downloading speed.

Using Google Drive Direct Link Generator works great, but also it has another kind of problems associated with it.

I’m talking about the Download link functionality. Now I’m uploading all my audio files to my hosting provider. All of them are .MP3 files so when someone want to download podcast’s episode audio file the result is the original .MP3 file. Testing this with Google Drive results in an undefined list of characters without extension, so its difficult to play it offline.

All the code related to the download function is in file class-ssp-frontend.php. There you define $file as the filename of the audio/video file, thinking it’ll be a real file, not a file stored on the cloud.

Line 1537 sets the filename header parameter to that physical path. I think that if you change that $file var and make use of another one could make the job.

I’ve tested it setting the filename header parameter to $episode[‘episode_title’] and it works fine, but resultant file still need an extension.

I can’t figure out how to code it, so here is where I need your help ;).

Hope it’ll be useful for you and can make your plugin even better.