I have put some free MP3s on my band's website (link in the sig) and hosted them on idisk, but when I click on them they play rather than downloading. It feels inelegant to zip them or ask people to right-click.
All the searches I have done on this topic suggest that it's just tough luck BUT.... if I host the MP3s on garageband.com they download, so they have obviously found some way round it.
website download link
garageband.com download link
The only obvious difference is that on garageband the song has "?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSgYFi3Y2k" after the filename on the link. Also, I've seen talk of changing MIME types so the browser doesn't know it's an MP3. Is this what I should do, and if so, how?
Thanks!
All the searches I have done on this topic suggest that it's just tough luck BUT.... if I host the MP3s on garageband.com they download, so they have obviously found some way round it.
website download link
garageband.com download link
The only obvious difference is that on garageband the song has "?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSgYFi3Y2k" after the filename on the link. Also, I've seen talk of changing MIME types so the browser doesn't know it's an MP3. Is this what I should do, and if so, how?
Thanks!