Force download instead of streaming of mp3 file in FF

Question

As the title says, I\'d like to download a mp3-file instead of playing it in Firefox.

I do it like this:

Answer 1

Write this

<a href="http://test.com/path/to/my/file.mp3" download></html> WRONG

should be

<a href="http://test.com/path/to/my/file.mp3" download="file.mp3">download</a>

Answer 2

Tested 8/18, Firefox correctly handles a simple download attribute. The accepted and second-ranked answers are wrong, at least as of now.

So, simply,

<a href="http://test.com/path/to/my/file.mp3" download></a>

will work, and if you want to control what the file is downloaded as, you give download a value:

<a href="http://test.com/path/to/my/file.mp3" download="use-this-name.mp3"></a>

That is why Chrome (or any modern browser) will download it as "true.mp3" if you try to use download="true" instead of a simple download to force the file download.

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Also, note that <a></html> in the question isn't valid, and could have possibly caused a problem at the time if that's not just a typo.

Answer 3

I used <a href="http://test.com/path/to/my/file.mp3" download >download</a> If you use the download="true" inside the anchor This will result in the renaming of the file name to true.mp3 in chrome an firefox as mention above.

Answer 4

This is the correct way to force the download:

<a href="http://test.com/path/to/my/file.mp3" download="true">download</a>

NB: it will work on Firefox only if the file is located on the same domain unfortunately, cf. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=874009