Plans to revamp the download so that the link itself downloads?

[Joey]

@voicebyian

1. Click button, bottom section expands with name of file and another download icon.

This download menu has to be in place because many offer more than one file format. This click is redundant though if you only offer a single file format. cc @zusatzstoff

@voicebyian

2. Click this second download icon and it opened a new window within the podlove iframe to the HTML 5 mp3 player that

This is your server configuration and has nothing to do with Podlove. Feel free to change your configuration:

[Podlove Publisher] How to enable Force Downloads & Fix Mime Types

Summary Download servers usually deliver media files “as is” to a browser. Most of the times, browsers tend to try to open the files directly offering immediate playback. As web players are common these days, this behaviour is not ideal as most users expect the content to be downloaded to disk directly. In order to enable forced downloads, you need to change the configuration of your download server. The video shows how to do that and you will find example configurations for Apache and nginx w…