Comments on: How to download old This American Life episodes as MP3s

By: Dan Misener

Dan Misener — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:02:05 +0000

Yes. It's called wget or curl. Smarter, but for more people, more difficult.

By: tester

tester — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:41:28 +0000

http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/jomamashouse/is…

Is there a smarter way of downloading the mp3 than posting the link and right click downloading it?

By: Dan Misener

Dan Misener — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:51:04 +0000

File – > Save Page As

By: hatim

hatim — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:20:39 +0000

how do i save http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/jomamashouse/is… to my computer using google chrome?

By: rob

rob — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:10:16 +0000

Just worked for me! Thanks!!

By: W. White

W. White — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:51:16 +0000

I feel that TAL has really hit its stride the last few years. It has been good for a long time. For the past few years, it has been great.
http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/jomamashouse/is… http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/jomamashouse/is… http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/jomamashouse/is… http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/jomamashouse/is… http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/jomamashouse/is… http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/jomamashouse/is…

It is too bad that TAL podcasts are only through Apple and Audible; I would buy every podcast if part of the money was not going to an exploitative corporation.

By: peter

peter — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:04:00 +0000

I couldn’t figure out DownThemAll.
but Flashget just ripped through episodes 3 to 9 in a blink and has a nifty URL wildcard propagation feature. My lifetime supply of TAL is on the horizon.

By: Dan Misener

Dan Misener — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:50:48 +0000

DownThemAll might be handy:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/

Or, of course, you could learn how to use wget or curl.

By: peter

peter — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:42:59 +0000

Is there anyway to batch download, that is to say, queue up the 456 unique URLs, each with it's own episode number and hit GO!

Hmmm, this looks promising:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ba…

I'll report on how it works.

By: Dan Misener

Dan Misener — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:35:17 +0000

I suggest learning how to use wget or curl. You’ll find these much less labour-intensive.