Putting mp3's onto a blog....

Hiya all,

I have a blog..(doesn't everybody....lol) Anyway, I'd like to put up some mp3's so that when people click on the name of the song, they can hear it. But my problem is that I'd rather people not be able to access the direct url's etc. Is there a way of doing this. I already have them hosted on a file hosting site and there's a bunch of different codes that I can copy etc for including them in the blog pages but I'm not sure which one would be best for my purposes. I'm not too savvy with code so please be gentle....

What I'm thinking of is some sort of 'myspace'-type player that you can have on a page that will allow people to listen but not have access to the urls...

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...

f you can hear it, you can record it.

Sorry.

if you embed the MP3 inside a flash file, then the person will have to "work harder" to get the file... but there are decompilers available to do precisely that.

At the end of the day, as Kyrah says, if you don't want people taking it, don't put it on the internet. If it's some music you wrote or performed, I would think you'd WANT the exposure.. only the RIAA level music artists think they are "losing" anything when someone gets their work without paying for it.

A strategy a lot of group use, is to include a "low quality" version of the music.. this saves them bandwidth costs.. from hundreds of people downloading the files.. and at the same time, encourages people to buy their albums to get the "High Quality" version. NIN went a step further, and released several of their tracks free from their new album, want more than those tracks? Plunk down your CC and download the whole album.

Really, unless you have some huge fear that someone reading your blog will learn your true identity via the URL of the mp3, people HAVE to download the file for their browser to play it.. if it's encoded into a flash mp3 player, that will make it harder, but not impossible.

it's just like pictures.. all the fancy flash albums and java scripts designed to keep you from right-clicking on an image and hitting save.. WON'T stop someone who really wants the image, from pressing "print screen".

Ask yourself... "what am I really losing if someone downloads this file?"