Laravel Public vs Storage directories for audio files

Question

I am a little bit confused about in which directory I should put my .mp3 files in Laravel 5.

• public/, my first choice as my MP3 can be considered as media (like images which are already stored there)

• storage/app, according to docs this directory is kind of recommended for this purpose.

  

I don't really mind being able to get an URL of these audio files since I serve it as a stream (to somehow prevent downloads, lol).

Any advice? Thanks.

Answer 1

Guess it just depends on whether you want direct public access or not.

public/ is simpler. Anything in there you can link to directly. Just like your js or css or images resources.

storage/app is obviously more secure, no way to access it directly. That's what I would use (actually I think I'd do storage/app/audio to be specific) so I have more control over how they are accessed.