Question on MP3's & Temp file

[jmarshall]

Hi,

This may be a stupid question but I'll ask it anyway :-) Is there any way to use a flash music player, which calls an XML file listing the songs, to not allow the user to download them? I know they download automatically to the users Temp internet file on their computer ...

My client wants to play multiple songs on their site (they are a band) but they sell their music so they don't want people to have access to it via the site (don't know if I am explaining clearly?).

I know I could put in a flash file but I think that would be too big ... just curious if there is another way out there approach this.

Thanks!

[hp3]

the only way to prevent temp file caching of music through Flash is to stream the sound using a dedicated Flash streaming server. Your client would need to host their music and possibly the web site on a hosting company that has a streaming server.

An alternative is to offer excerpts, not full downloads.