Question on Flash playing my music and protection from download?

[keano]

I am a musician and want to upload my music to my site but I don't want to have people to be able to download it. Can I upload them some way where a flash player plays them. No right click etc?

[billingsgate]

If you build a music player in Flash, you'll be able to let the listener hear your music through the Flash player without passing it to an external MP3 or other music player application. When the listener right-clicks all they'll get is the Flash Player menu, no option to save.

Be warned, though: it's still easy enough to grab your music. There are numerous little free apps out there to record sounds being played back on your computer in real time, whether played through Flash or anything else. On the other hand, using those still takes a bit more effort than a simple right-click, so anyone using that method to copy your music is either a real fan, or a real crook, and a determined crook will always find a way.

You'll need to learn all about using sound in Flash. The best place to start is:

Cowfly Flash sound tutorials (http://kennybellew.cowfly.com/tutorial/)

Here is a very cool site for a company that produces commercial music that they license. They have a great interface amd music player all done in Flash. Go to the site and then click on the "Get Music" link at the bottom, then choose any series and you'll get a menu of choices for playback.

Extreme Music (http://www.extrememusic.com/)

[keano]

Great! thanks

[d-woo]

Keano,

Here is a free MP3 player in Flash that is setup such that you do not even need to know Flash. Your settings (color, start automatically, etc) are all made in a non-SWF settings file.

The link is http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash+MP3+Player


All you need to do is:

1. Convert (rip) your music from CD to MP3 using WindowsMedia Player or MusicMatch
2. Upload the MP3s to your server
3. Upload the player from the above link

Your done!

Word to the wise...upload your MP3 files and the player files to the same directory...before getting fancy with separate directories, etc.

Enjoy!

[keano]

Beautiful