MP3 Download Issues

[cdpugh]

This may have been asked before, I have done some searching but didn't find anything relating to my specific problem though.

I have a Zen-Cart store up and running where I am selling radio interviews as digital download MP3 files. The issue that my customers are having is that instead of being given a download window when they purchase an MP3 the file is automatically opened in their browser window via QuickTime or Real Audio etc.

My question is what can I do to get around this? Thanks in advance.

[Ajeh]

Browsers are setup to manage files in various ways ...

By Zipping a download this prevents a file from just playing ... as it behaves as a Zip file and those download rather than play ...

[cdpugh]

Browsers are setup to manage files in various ways ...

By Zipping a download this prevents a file from just playing ... as it behaves as a Zip file and those download rather than play ...

asking our users to unzip these files would be a huge stretch. Also, there are over 600 individual mp3 files. thats a lot of zipping.

[Ajeh]

I forget off the top of my head if there isn't a setting that you can add for your site to treat mp3 files differently when clicked on ...

It has been a long day ...

[Veazer]

I'm struggling with this issue as well. I thought the problem could be solved by setting mime types for MP3 as octet/download in .htaccess but IE ignores it so won't work.

The discussion HERE seems to conclude that it can be accomplished by forcing the headers, so I decided to see if that could be done in ZC. Now I'm more confused, it looks like ZC *is* doing that already. The file '../includes/modules/pages/download/header_php.php' contains the following:

[FONT=Courier New]header("Content-Type: Application/octet-stream");
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=" . $downloads->fields['orders_products_filename']);[/FONT]

Shouldn't this be forcing a download? I also tried changing content type to 'Application/force-download' but it didn't help.

Can someone more PHP proficient than I take a look at the force download script HERE and see if it could be adapted to ZC?