Setting up downloads
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In Faircamp there are many ways to set up downloads.
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For instance:
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If you want to allow your listeners to download
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an album, let's say this one, as
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a .zip file, where each track is
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included as an MP3 file
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you can go to that album, then
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go to the multitrack settings, downloads and
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here you can enable the download format
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that you like, so for instance here I could
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select MP3 as a download format.
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This however is different from allowing people
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to download tracks individually. To allow individual
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track downloads you can for instance go
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to the first song here and then
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to the track settings, downloads and then
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configure a download format here. Again this
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could be just MP3.
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However you can also configure track downloads
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for each individual track at the album
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level. For this you can go to
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the album and then to the track
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settings for that album and then again
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to the downloads section and then you
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can enable MP3 downloads for
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instance for all tracks of this album.
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And now if you go to one
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of these tracks, let's say the first one
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and to the track settings and downloads you
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can see that the download format
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MP3 has been inherited from the
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multitrack container in which the track is
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contained.
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And this mechanism also works at higher
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levels, so you can for instance also
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do this at the site level. In
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the site you can go to the
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multitrack settings, downloads and here for instance
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configure a download format that will then
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apply to all multitracks, so all albums
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in this case that are in
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this site. Likewise you can also go
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to the site and to the track
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settings, downloads, set a download format here
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and this will apply then to all
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tracks in all albums or multitracks
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or also to all standalone tracks that
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are contained anywhere in the site.
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So this gives you a real flexible
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construction kit to quickly set up settings
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across the whole site.
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Okay, and last but not least let's
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go through a few settings that are
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available in general for downloads so first
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of all downloads by default are accessible
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free so all you need to enable
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them is basically set a download format,
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but you can of course also override
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that and then you can have settings
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like
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specifying external download links or having a
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pay curtain where you ask people to voluntarily
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pay for the downloads or you can also
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specify access codes here which are then
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available like for each of these settings
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basically you have the settings that pertain
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to that on this same page.
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Okay and that would be a quick
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introduction to the download settings, thank you
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for watching.
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In this video: Setting up multitrack downloads and individual downloads. Using setting inheritance to set up downloads for all tracks in a release, all releases on a site, etc. Additional settings for controlling access to downloads.