Guess this shouldn't be strange to bloggers, that when a visitor/reader click the media link, such as mp4 or mp3 links (ex; http://www.brixcity.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Brighter-Day-For-Nigeria.mp3), a new tab will open and play the music or video.


However, sometimes what people really wanted was to be able to download it and then play on their own device.

About more than 80 percent of people (even bloggers) do not know how to go about it, but the good news is here comes step-by-step guides that will see you through.

All you need to do is to insert the following code into your .htaccess file, which can be found in the root directory of your website.

NB: Before you do it, make sure you backup your .htaccess file first.


Step 1. Login To your control panel and navigate to your File manager Tab.



Step 2. Locate your .htaccess file in the root directory of your website.



Step 3. Edit the code as shown in the screen shot below,


Then place the following lines of code directly after the line 1 of your .htaccess file;

<FilesMatch "\.(?i:mp3)$">
ForceType application/octet-stream
Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.(?i:mp4)$">
ForceType application/octet-stream
Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.(?i:mpg)$">
ForceType application/octet-stream
Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.(?i:mov)$">
ForceType application/octet-stream
Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</FilesMatch>

So you have;


Finally, click on save!

There you have it, you can go ahead to download direct mp3/mp4 files using your android native browser.

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Source: http://www.brixcity.net/tech-how-to-force-android-browser-to-download-media-files-instead-of-playstream/