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Status: Closed Points: 125 Time: 09:56 - Feb 03, 2007  

mary2

Is it possible to have a website download songs right to someone's "My Music" folder?

I am currently designing a website that will require a user to be able to click "download" and then the website will download the site from my server to the users "My Music" folder. I want to create it so it will be similar to an online version of iTunes but dont know if the current technologies allow that yet. Does anyone know if this is possible and what kind of programmer I would need to accomplish this?

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mary2

Date:: Feb 03, 2007

Time:: 09:58

Sorry, the purpose would be to download music from my service right to a persons desktop, placing the MUSIC in the users "My Music" folder. I didnt describe it 100% correctly above.

Plucko

Date:: Feb 06, 2007

Time:: 14:19

I don't think you can let a visitor's computer download a file directly onto their desktop without using a certain (downloadable) application for it. Users should be able to decide where to download a file to.

mary2

Date:: Feb 06, 2007

Time:: 15:24

Is there any way to let the user choose the folder and save that setting from the internet? I am noticing that Microsoft, Google, etc are now creating versions of their software (Office Suite, Word Processing, etc) that is available through web browsers so I figure the same technology used to that can accomplish something like this. Do you know of anything or what technologies are used there?

admin

Date:: Jun 25, 2007

Time:: 05:53

john2, please close this question and distribute the points.
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mary2

Date:: Jun 25, 2007

Time:: 07:18

As you can see, I asked a follow up question that has still not been answered. Still looking.

oracleofDelphi

Date:: Oct 01, 2007

Time:: 17:31

yes you can download right to the user's my music folder.
what ever you're using, a common method is to package your file into a zip file. for example if I were to download a self extracting zip file, it unpacks into the user's temp folder. Instead of referrencing the temp folder, you can referrence the user's profile folder and unpack to the music subfolder like this:
"%UserProfile%\my documents\my music"
(leave it exactly as %UserProfile% that will force it to reference the current user so you don't have to know the user's username)

oracleofDelphi

Date:: Oct 01, 2007

Time:: 23:49

Lets try this again.
the technologies that microsoft office suite and google are using still utilize a client app that specifies the local directory target for downloads. You cannot specify a target folder purely from a website since that would be a security breach (if I were a hacker, I'd use such a capability to force a download to your startup programs folder or start screwing with your system32 folder). The only real way to accomplish what you're asking is to create a client application. The approach I would take from a programming standpoint would be to create the application that can read an info file that I could download from the website (like a torrent file) inside this file would be ftp information that the file would use to automatically download the file (via ftp get commands) and place them in the specified directory.
A competant MFC (visual studio) programmer would be able to design a nice looking client application and someone familiar with maintaining an FTP server would take care of the server side. I recommend you find someone also familiar with certificate services to better handle client authentication so you're not relying on usernames and passwords.

mary2

Date:: Oct 02, 2007

Time:: 02:36

Thanks

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