I like to listen to such programmes as "In Our Time" on Radio 4. I
can download them as podcasts for 7 days after transmission but I can
"listen again" to them for many months after transmission. Is there
any way I can download them from the "listen again" site to my iPod or
to my hard drive in any format which I can later convert to MP3?


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Alasdair.

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:56:39 +0000, Alasdair
wrote:

I like to listen to such programmes as "In Our Time" on Radio 4. I
can download them as podcasts for 7 days after transmission but I can
"listen again" to them for many months after transmission. Is there
any way I can download them from the "listen again" site to my iPod or
to my hard drive in any format which I can later convert to MP3?

I thought Listen Again only kept programmes for a week?

Anyway, Listen Again is streaming audio. There isn't a file to
download. But if you can hear it, of course you can record it. On
all but the most primitive audio "cards" this is as simple as
selecting "What You Hear", "Mix" or something similar as Record Input,
and running a wave recording program while listening. If you don't
have this facility (I'm, rather unbelievably, seeing some on-board
audio systems that don't) you may have to get ingenious with an
external loop-back cable from Line Out to Line In. Or just record
direct to your iPod.

(Note to all - if you want a MP3 player for anything EXCEPT
downloading from iTunes, the iPod is the LEAST convenient brand to
choose. Its whole setup is obsessed with rights management rather
than user convenience.)

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:17:35 GMT, gibbo wrote:

(Note to all - if you want a MP3 player for anything EXCEPT
downloading from iTunes, the iPod is the LEAST convenient brand to
choose. Its whole setup is obsessed with rights management rather
than user convenience.)

Do enlighten us...

Because Apple run iTunes, I suppose. And want to make buying
rights-protected tracks from iTunes appear to be the norm.

I'd much rather use a system that stores files transparently, under
their original filenames, not assuming I want everything converted to
m4a format... An iPod CAN, but it isn't the system you're offered.

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:35:41 +0000, Laurence Payne
lpayne1NOSPAM@dslDOTpipexDOTcom wrote:

I thought Listen Again only kept programmes for a week?

Anyway, Listen Again is streaming audio. There isn't a file to
download. But if you can hear it, of course you can record it.


"Listen Again" is on the BBC site for months if not years. The
facility to download the file direct to iTunes as a podcast disappears
a week. I don't know why the BBC do this but no doubt they have their
reasons.

I have recorded it from the audio using a program called Replay AV but
I have to run the recording for the full real time duration of the
programme, about 45 minutes.

I thought there must be a way of downloading the .rm file as it must
sit somewhere on the BBC hard drive.

I see there are three types of MP3 available, 32kbps,64kbps, and
128kbps. What is the best one to record it in for a speech program?
How many Mb should a program of 43 minutes take up of hard drive
space?

Please pardon my ignorance.

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Alasdair.