Not able to Download Audio when clicked on Download link!

This is typically due to the browser you are using. The best solution is to right-click and select “Save As” to download it directly to your computer.

Hi Dave,

First of all thank you for quick response.
Now I don’t think that it is because of Browser because of following reasons
1. Another website that uses blubrry has the option to direct download. (This website https://muslimcentral.com/)
2. I tried to install blubrry in new website and everything was working fine, which means that audios were getting downloaded automatically, BUT when we link blubbry with the website it again starts to open in new tab…

So I even deleted my blubrry account associated with https://www.islamicaudios.net/ but still the same problem.

See When I click on the download button it opens this link –> https://media.blubrry.com/islamicaudios/s/islamicaudios.net/audio/quran/tra/ur/040-Surah-Momin—Urdu-Translation.mp3

I want this link to be opened https://islamicaudios.net/audio/quran/tra/ur/040-Surah-Momin—Urdu-Translation.mp3

I don’t want that media.blubbry.com extension that is what is creating the problem.

Currently the download attribute for a link is supported by the following browsers:

• Safari
• Edge

Firefox download attribute has never worked as intended unfortunately.

Chrome ended support for the download attribute in 2017 over security concerns: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=373182 In other words, it used to work now it does not.

As Dave explained, users will need to right click and select “save-as” to download in these browsers.

The other way is to change the content type or add content-disposition headers to the URL to the media, but many podcasters and companies have tried this in the past and discovered it leads to dyer consequences with podcasting. If the content type is not a media content type then some Android and all Apple devices will not allow the device to download it for security reasons. In other words, if you want to force downloads on your website, then you will give up the ability for podcast apps to download the podcasts.

https://muslimcentral.com/ created those download links in their theme, and they point the URL to a different version of the file.

content-disposition: attachment
content-type: application/octet-stream

This is allowing for the force download. As I said before, this practice prevents some devices from being able to download or play these podcast episodes. They may have taken this a step further and detect at the time of a request the user agent to determine when to add or not to add the headers, this would constantly need to be updated to deal with ever changing situations.