How can my client download his own music from Wix Music?

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How can my client download his own music from Wix Music?

Product:
Wix Music
What are you trying to achieve:
My client has his music up for sale on his website. He wants to be able to provide free album downloads to individual friends and potential clients, NOT a button on the site that allows anyone to download the album. It seems you can only promote, edit, or delete the music.

What have you already tried:
I’ve tried setting up an email to one person through the “Promote” button. But you can’t do anything but send samples of the tracks not the complete album. And there is currently no way to send an mp3 or any music file. So… I thought maybe the only way is for him to download the album to his computer and send it through his regular email account. But there’s no way as far as I can tell to download an album from the collection of music in Wix Music.

Additional information:
It’s a simple thing. He wants to send a code or a link so that someone can download the album without paying for it.

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If this doesn’t solve your issue, you could possibly set up member only pages that would allow for this functionality.

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It wouldn’t really be secure.

In other words, if he had a generic link he shared with a few people—— then those people could simply forward the link to anyone else. Then again, I guess it wouldn’t matter because anyone with the downloaded album files could share those as well.

You can host a zip file with the audio files anywhere. Google drive, Dropbox, etc. Dropbox has the most secure way of sharing.

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Thanks for replying. Yes, that Wix support page is Google’s response as well. He has his albums monetized and wants to keep it that way. It seems there’s no way on Wix to have it both ways – it’s either free downloads, or not.

I know he’s not interested in member-only pages.

Thanks again.

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Thanks for replying.

Yes… anyone who buys the album could distribute it. He’s not concerned about that in terms the people he would give the free download to would distribute it.

Dropbox is an idea.

The other thing I thought was that he could create a separate page on the site for just the download of that album and have a download button. It wouldn’t be reachable by anyone except the person he gave the URL to. Then if he was concerned about theft he could unpublish the page. :thinking:

Thanks again for your suggestions.

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This seems like it may be the only solution for now. You can make this page password protected as an additional layer of security.

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Password protecting it would be a good alternative to unpublishing it. Thanks. The problem is that Wix doesn’t allow you to duplicate albums in their Music Library. Depending on how many albums he wants to make available free, he’s going to have to recreate the albums from scratch. Because the albums as they stand are monetized, and there’s no in-between. So each album will need a duplicate album that’s set to “Free Download.” Ugh!

Thanks for your input.

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