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    red flag Make .mp3 songs downloadable at left click like .zip not right click and SAVE LINK AS

    Hi
    I want to make my products(.mp3 songs) to be downloadable just like it is with the .zip files... So you click on them and a popup shows for SAVE... Now the clients have to do a right-click on the song and then select SAVE LINK AS... Could anyone help me with this... I'm new to zen cart and this is urgent

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    Default Re: Make .mp3 songs downloadable at left click like .zip not right click and SAVE LIN

    You'll probably have to make them .zip files. If your visitor/customer has a program set to open .mp3's, they'll need to right-click to save them.

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    Default Re: Make .mp3 songs downloadable at left click like .zip not right click and SAVE LIN

    So there is no way that I can make a mp3 song to be downloaded on a left click like a zip file... Is there any part of the code that can be changed to make this feature possible???

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    Default Re: Make .mp3 songs downloadable at left click like .zip not right click and SAVE LIN

    Far as I know, it's not a Zencart thing. If a particular visitor, including, I guess, you, has the .mp3 extension associated with a specific program, that program will open it rather than download it on a left-click. There seem to be scripts that will interfere with this, but, of course, they won't work with visitors who have scripting disabled. Google 'force file download'.

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    Default Re: Make .mp3 songs downloadable at left click like .zip not right click and SAVE LIN

    Or try these .htaccess additions: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...93&postcount=4
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    Default Re: Make .mp3 songs downloadable at left click like .zip not right click and SAVE LIN

    I'm not sure about this thread you gave me a link to... Are you trying to say that if I add those lines in the .htaccess document when a user clicks on a song it will start downloading automatically as it is with the .zip files(so he left-clicks on a song and a window pops up asking where to save the song)???

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    Default Re: Make .mp3 songs downloadable at left click like .zip not right click and SAVE LIN

    Doing so *might* help. It depends on the customer's browser configuration and your hosting server configuration, and a number of factors.
    Put it in a .htaccess file in your /pub/ folder if you're serving downloads via redirect, or in your /download/ folder if you're not serving by redirect.
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    Default Re: Make .mp3 songs downloadable at left click like .zip not right click and SAVE LIN

    Quote Originally Posted by DrByte View Post
    Doing so *might* help. It depends on the customer's browser configuration and your hosting server configuration, and a number of factors.
    Put it in a .htaccess file in your /pub/ folder if you're serving downloads via redirect, or in your /download/ folder if you're not serving by redirect.
    I allready did that and all i get is when the user clicks on the download button he is redirected to another screen where it is suposed to listen the song(browser's stuff) and there it actually appears a pop up window for SAVE AS but it only saves a 0kb .mp3 file... Any other ideas? Cos it's really unintuitive for the user to right click and go to SAVE FILE AS on a button that says DOWNLOAD on it...

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    Default Re: Make .mp3 songs downloadable at left click like .zip not right click and SAVE LIN

    Quote Originally Posted by yarilo111 View Post
    I allready did that and all i get is when the user clicks on the download button he is redirected to another screen where it is suposed to listen the song(browser's stuff) and there it actually appears a pop up window for SAVE AS but it only saves a 0kb .mp3 file... Any other ideas? Cos it's really unintuitive for the user to right click and go to SAVE FILE AS on a button that says DOWNLOAD on it...
    YEAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!... SUCCESS... Don't count the previous post I did because there was a stupid mistake I did... The file that I was trying to download using a .htaccess modification was actually 0kb(corrupted file)... After that I tried with another song and it worked... So... the solution for me was to use a force-stream in the .htaccess file from the directory that I am streaming from. This is tested for Firefox. IE and Opera on Windows and Firefox and Opera on Ubuntu and it's working...

 

 

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