Re: FN-FORUM: Monitoring downloads of MP3s

date posted 16th January 2006 14:50

Hi I'm pretty interested in this as well for a different site I'm
working on - although they may want to sell music for download at come
stage - they are not there yet however, they do have streaming
technology at the moment which I didn't build - as far as I can see
they have it set up so that you can listen to the music but it can't be
captured - could you fill me in on how that could work? or how I'd set
that up if i'm compiling the sound files of which there will be about
24 a month

thanks

Matt
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On 16 Jan 2006, at 15:15, Dom Latter wrote:


On Monday 16 Jan 2006 12:35 pm, D D Glendinning wrote:
> What they would like to do is in a first instance, make the albums
> available for download, rather than posting, but tracking the sales is
> very important, and allowing only one download per sale is also very
> important (so, having download areas, that expire).

We've just done a site for a small world music record label including
online sales. We'll contact you by email if you'd like, but for the
benefit of the list, the basic technique here is to create a "token" -
a random string that is stored in a database table along with the
filename.
(The file itself is not accessible, of course). The punter gets a link
like www.site.com/download.php&token=128351745632184
and after the token's been used the record in the table gets marked
as no longer valid.