No direct linking of songs

greengeek
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Germi,

Has any work been done on this? I really like this product, but it is one of the few programs, both free and commercial, that do not hide the direct links to the songs. It would really be nice if the file paths and names were stored in the database and were able to be restricted by user and/or session ID. That way the location of the songs would not be displayed so visibly on the website or within file generated for the playlist.

Would be nice instead of showing something like:

"c:\\website\\AllMyMusic\\songs.mp3"

that the user would see:

"http://www.mywebsite.com/song.php?song_id=1234&ssid=123456789"

That way the path is hidden and it is not so obvious where one can leech the songs from as well as requiring a session id so that they would have to be logged in and authorized. It would also be nice, with the path being stored within the database, to be able to have the music files stored on the server outside of the web directory. Again providing better protection of the files.

This is the main thing that has kept my site from going live. I do not want to be held liable for providing easy access to music files on my website and the groups I have dealt with are wanting better protection of their music.

I can provide you a list of other free and commercial php based apps if you would like some examples of how others are doing it.
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    Sunday, January 09 2011, 06:55 PM - #Permalink
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    yes, I made some work on this, but still am a bit "afraid" of making it as a public release, because of some trouble it could cause.

    if you want, I can share privately with you my solution, and you can try it... :)

    anyway, yes, if you have a list of php based apps that do that, I'll be glad to take a look

    my solution is based on XMOOV to do the streaming, integrated with MC of course.
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    Luca
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    Friday, December 16 2011, 12:33 PM - #Permalink
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    Hi Germi did you ever continue the work on hiding the direct links to the songs? I am very interested in this.
    Thanks
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    Friday, December 16 2011, 07:28 PM - #Permalink
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    I worked a bit on it and have a version in a veeeeery (notice the many "e") beta version... so no news about that yet..!

    thanks for your interest

    Germi
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    Luca
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    Monday, December 19 2011, 08:42 AM - #Permalink
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    Hehehe yes I noticed the many 'eeee's but its something quite important on my checklist. Would you be willing to finish it as a custom job?
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    Wednesday, December 21 2011, 05:09 PM - #Permalink
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    well yes we could make it as a custom work, there are no current plans to make it official (on a short period at least!)
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    Luca
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    Wednesday, December 21 2011, 08:20 PM - #Permalink
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    Perfect! How long do you think it will take and do you have a price tag in mind?
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    Tuesday, December 27 2011, 05:05 PM - #Permalink
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    for details on this contact us at joomlamusicsolutions@gmail.com or using the custom service contact form! :)
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