allow to listen but not save music files on website

[tjmichner]

hello all i am new here i hope this is the right forum.

i am doing a website for a musician who wants people to hear his music but not be able to save it. they are mp3 files in a frontpage 2003 site.

is there a good way to do this? would i need to embed an audio player or should i just make the songs "sample" length only? what do you suggest?

thank you

 

[feherke]

Hi

Please read faq253-6072. The problem is not identic but the explanation is good.

If you do not want the music to be saved by the visitors, then do not make it available on the net. If you still want to publish it, then you may worsen the quality so nobody will want to save it.

I suggest to sacrifice one melody and make it freely available for download. If people will enjoy it, will buy the others too. Otherwise will not save it anyway.

Feherke.

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[tjmichner]

thanks i thought that was probably the only answer. i will just make only portions of the songs available. thanks again!

 

[kaht]

You could try embedding the files inside Flash, but that's not 100% foolproof. However, it will deter most people.

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[Kjonnnn]

You can easily convert the mp3 to ram..with Real Producer (free).. then create a .rm file to link to. Users will be able to listen but not download.

Google .... .ram files

 

[ca8msm]

Users will be able to listen but not download.

As was stated in other peoples replies, this will still only deter people - it will not stop them from being able to download the file.


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[tjmichner]

thanks for all your suggestions. this is what i am trying tell me if this is a wrong direction.... i have converted the mp3 to streaming and i am going to embed a player on the site. will that take care of it? or at least somewhat?

 

[AtomicChip]

When all's said and done, someone could run an app that will peek at sound card data to rip the audio - for example (i haven't actually tried it, but in theory it should be fairly easy to write something like this:

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/...isc__Sound_Tools/123_Super_MP3_Recorder.html)

So, in other words...

If you do not want the music to be saved by the visitors, then do not make it available on the net.

The way most sites that I've visited deal with this problem is by sticking a watermark in the audio that's heard every 10 secs or so..

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[Kjonnnn]

Sorry ca8msm

Im not sure what you are talking about. But it will stop them. They don't get access to the .ram file, but only access to the .rm text file which points to the .ram file. Its a common practice.

 

[Kjonnnn]

http://personalweb.about.com/od/linkingideas/a/408ramfiles.htm

http://www.globalgraffiti.com/demo.htm

http://www.webii.net/support/realaudio.html

 

[ca8msm]

Sorry ca8msm

Im not sure what you are talking about. But it will stop them. They don't get access to the .ram file, but only access to the .rm text file which points to the .ram file. Its a common practice.

What I meant was that even though you point the user to the .rm, the music is still streamed to the client so it is possible to save the contents of the file. Your method will deter users but it won't stop someone who is determined to grab that music.


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