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I have some audio files on my website, and I wan't to do as much as I can to stop people from downloading them.

I thought I had it figured out (on E Explorer) by disabling the right click. than I tried Firefox, and it has a window that pops up when you want to play the file and asks you if you want to download the file or play it. Is there a way to stop this?

May I ask why you have them there? Most things put on a web page are able to be taken even if you use methods to disallow this.

If you want the files all to yourself or only certain people, make yourself a password protected directory and place your files in there ..... then no one can access those pages unless they have the password ....

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I do have a password protected directory, but if I could even do something to make it hard to download (even for those people who have a password) I would.

Why make it hard for those that have the password ??

Thats why you gave/sold access, wasn´t it !!!!!!

You could always change the password from time to time if you wished................

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chmod the directory to 744 and that will prevent them from accessing the files with the web browser. Then for the file you want to give access use a media player on the website (that uses an encryped file path) to play the files

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I remember when I was navigating in MP3 web shop, they have kind of these options, like you find the albums you can listen to the songs but not in Stereo Mode, they are all in Mono, but I know, they are known songs, so you know the quality is better.

Sometimes people will think that the songs are mono quality in origin, so they will escape it.

The thing with that mp3 web shop, they have some kind of scripting or something stoping you from recording.

Yeah, be aware that there is recorders, you can record what you are listening to in your computer.

Make a search in google or yahoo, for sure you will find something.

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What does this mean in simple terms?

You will need a media player similar to what you youtube uses (one where it doesn't reveal the location of the media file on the server). And then the folder that will contain all the media files, you need to use a ftp to chmod it to 744 which prevents people from viewing any file inside of it directly

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sorry,
how do you chmod it to 744?

OK,

If I put a streaming .wma file on a .html page would there be a way to download it?

Like this

http://mp3how.com/kutless-sea-of-fac...-Faces_mp3.php

Use a FTP program, for most you right click on the directory, hit properties, and there should be a field to fill in the CHMOD

If you view the source and can find the location of the file on the server, and that folder that the file is in isn't protected, then yes they can download it.

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Is their a player that doesn't show the location but will play .wma files?

what happens when you can't view a file inside of a directory directly?

Does that mean even if you found the URL and tried to open the file from the server on windows media player (or anything else) it wouldn't work?

I know they exist, but I don know of specific one. As long as you CHMOD the folder people can't download it (it will give them an "Forbidden" message when trying to view the folder if CHMOD'ed to 744), then you can use a media player that gives away the location.

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So will they be able view the file at all?

Yes, if the server is making the request for the file it will allow them to view it through the server, but it they make the request with their broswer (IE. typing the location into the address bar) it will not

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If I go into Windows Media Player and go open url and copy the file url into the space and and click open does that work if you've chmod'ed to 744?

No, it wont work. If you restrict the access to only the server with a CHMOD then the only way to access the file is through a server request

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Do I attach a file than or an html page with the file on it?

or doesn't it matter?