# Spatie - Downloading Media/Downloading A Single File

Source: https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-medialibrary/v11/downloading-media/downloading-a-single-file

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Laravel Media Library
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Downloading a single file
Downloading a single file
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1. Are you a visual learner?
`Media` implements the `Responsable` interface. This means that you can just return a media object to download the associated file in your browser.
```php
use Spatie\MediaLibrary\MediaCollections\Models\Media;

class DownloadMediaController
{
   public function show(Media $mediaItem)
   {
      return $mediaItem;
   }
}
```
If you need more control you could also do the above more verbose:
```php
use Spatie\MediaLibrary\MediaCollections\Models\Media;

class DownloadMediaController
{
   public function show(Media $mediaItem)
   {
       return response()->download($mediaItem->getPath(), $mediaItem->file_name);
   }
}
```
##Are you a visual learner?
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Here's a video that shows how to download files.
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