Not sure what subforum I should ask this in, as it potentially fits in a couple. I create my own music, and I want a relatively safe way of sharing it for preview purposes. Safe meaning nobody can download the MP3 of it to their computer and/or it is not cached on their computer for them to find in some type of temp folder. I'm not sure if the music player on peoples Myspace pages work like this, but I thought I'd ask some people that know more about this type of thing or have looked into it. (Edit: Just searched and found some hacks for downloading songs directly from myspace profiles -- so I'll scrap that idea unless it's the best way) I've already tried to search for solutions but the words I use in any engine keep resulting in write ups about copyright infringement. Thankyou.
some kind of flash player would be good but that is breakable (it's similar to what MySpace uses) The other way is a Java based one, but again it's possible to get the music. At the end of the day it's not possible to get 100% unbreakable music because I can just plug my output into my recording device and get a copy that way.
i think pretty much every flash player caches the tracks on your hard drive some way or another, they're all going to be breakable. just suck it up, if your music is good people will buy it. if you try too hard to stop copying you'll just piss off potential customers. as doug said, as long as it plays through your speakers you can copy it.
Don't bother. Even streaming audio is easy as pie to record in 100% quality. All you have to do is set your audio recording properties to "stereo mix" or similar, press record on your favorite sound recording program, play the song on the site and bam, done! If you want people to buy it, only share a 30sec sample or something - or really low quality.
The majority of people wouldnt know how to record from streaming audio. Try this: http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_MP3_Player its very customisable and nice looking
