My downloadable links won't open download window

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Problem: My downloadable links won’t open download window, opens a window with audio player instead.

Saola Animate version: 3.0.0

OS: Windows 10

Notes:

I am trying to put some download links for audio files on a scene. When I turn a text item into a download link using the go to url function, it just opens a window with an audio player. I tried using a link from another music site on the web and it works correctly when I use their link…it opens a download window, why won’t my link work.

I have attached a package file for inspection.CREATE DOWNLOADABLE LINK.saolapack (2.7 KB)

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Hi,

It’s outside the scope of Saola Animate.

You need to configure your server to indicate the audio should be downloaded instead of played, for example, using Content-Disposition: attachment header (Content-Disposition - HTTP | MDN)

If your HTML5 output and your audio file are hosted on the same domain, you can use just client-side JavaScript to download:

	var anchor = document.createElement('a');
	anchor.href = 'your audio url';
	anchor.download = 'your audio file name';
	document.body.appendChild(anchor);
	anchor.click();
	document.body.removeChild(anchor);

Regards

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Hi Toan…thanks for that code, I gave it a try but it did the same thing, but your code got me thinking about browser settings and I just found this, I am using about 3 to 4 browers, Firefox, Chrome, etc and just found on two of them which I was having the problem on , a setting for audio files was different from the other browsers I have, when I changed those settings the download windows finally opened instead of a player in a window.
…On Firefox it was a config setting called media.play-stand-alone and I changed the value from true to false. Thanks for your help! :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hi Locky,

The script only works if your HTML5 output and your audio file are hosted on the same domain.
In your case, the output must be hosted on https://radio108.com/

Changing the browser settings is not a good option because your users who view your content must do that too.

Regards

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Excellent advice, I had not thought of that!