How to prevent users from downloading audio files with apps like real player

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I am trying to integrate a flash mp3 player in a project but I noticed that a user can use real player or other apps like that to download the songs without registering or loggin in to download. I have seen some site that do not allow download and if a user tries to download with real player for example a message comes up saying this site doe not allow downloads. How can I do the same with my site?

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I should clarify that all visitors are able to listen to the content but cannot download unless they have membership with the site. So if a users visited and had an app like real player installed they could download the files without being a member.

Posted 24-May-11 3:37am

Member 7790032

Updated 24-May-11 8:03am

#realJSOP

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Strictly speaking, you cannot prevent anything, and RealPlayer cannot either. If a player can load it, any other program can. However, you can make it difficult to the weak-minded. :-)

—SA

Posted 24-May-11 10:45am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Member 7790032 24-May-11 16:49pm

How would i go about that? I have seen websites where I tried to use real player but when the real down loader tried to open the file it gave a message of 'site does not allow download'.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-May-11 23:21pm

Real Player is bad I think. Sorry, I don't know how to do it; I only know what you can and what you can not. There are well-known streaming solutions, but I'm not well familiar with client part.

For streaming part, I used VideoLAN; it can do nearly everything. Look at its documentation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoLAN,
http://www.videolan.org/.

--SA

sairam.bhat 25-May-11 2:21am

my +5

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-May-11 2:51am

Thank you, Sairam.
--SA

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#realJSOP · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-24T04:49:00

Solution 1

Google "asp.net user authentication" and "asp.net user roles"

EDIT =================

Okay, you could just as easily google "prevent download via realplayer", and would have found this:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402905.html[^]

Posted 24-May-11 4:49am

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Updated 24-May-11 8:02am

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Member 7790032 24-May-11 13:08pm

This is not a good solution since the problem is not authentication.

I should clarify that all visitors are able to listen to the content but cannot download unless they have membership with the site. So if a users visited and had an app like real player installed they could download the files without being a member.

Marc A. Brown 24-May-11 14:23pm

That link takes me to a 404 page, John.

Member 7790032 24-May-11 14:54pm

I tried your link but it is broken and my search of the net I ran into people with the same issue with no solution as yet

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-May-11 16:47pm

OP is right.

I put my answer explaining it. Please see.
I personally don't know what to do, but it's possible to make it just difficult to download.
--SA