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Permalink Reply by Jon on March 27, 2009 at 10:06pm

You mean just a basic download? Upload them to a folder on your site, and link to the individual files. You can make it a text link, or an image link. When they access the file, their browser will automatically prompt them to save the file. A word of caution here, notify your webmaster what you're doing. If your web host sees a lot of download activity, especially mp3 files, their first thought is you are running an illegal download service and they may shut down your site.

But if you want to be able to play the song from your site, it's a different story. A very simple way to do this is to join mog.com. You can share your music collection, and plug their player into your own site giving you an easy way to share your songs. They give you the code to imbed, and the interface isn't too bad. Simple to figure out.

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Permalink Reply by Jason Paul Johnston on March 28, 2009 at 12:20pm

If it is a regular HTML website you can try these options:

- This is some download software I sell through my store
http://revolutionaudio.ca/store/product_info.php?cPath=23_47&pr...
It's $39.99 canadian but if you put in the comments "50% per Jason" I'll give you a 50% when we ring the card through. This one is super easy to use and is the one to go for if you want easy but don't want to be advertising other sites.

- This one is free:
http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net/
And I've used it with success on a couple of websites, but it's a little trickier to setup. It plays more of a "playlist" which is nice. So more configurable, but tricker, but again no "other site" branding.

Two more free options that are super easy - sign up at http://www.reverbnation.com or http://www.nimbit.com/ and like the mog.com site, you can upload your songs, let people play them and even sell through nimbit.

Hope that helps!

Jason

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