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with all the fuss around RSS feeds these days (oh, XML, how i hate you), i was poking around looking for a way to feed this american life (http://www.thislife.org) to my mp3 player. i found one (thank god!), but now that i've got all this great XML processing kit, i'm looking for more radio/non-music to wile away the hours at work with.

any suggestions, gaf?
 
This American Life can be downloaded as a RealAudio file. Save the *.ram file to your desktop, then open it with Notepad. Inside is the link to the real file.

Feed that link to a program that can download stuff using the RTSP protocol, such as Offline Explorer.

Then Feed the completed *.ram file to an audio editor/convertor program, such as Goldwave. Convert to MP3 and you are good to go.

This works for Prairie Home Companion, and pretty much any other NPR show that offers RealAudio content.
 
Avoid this. They are great for deals but their clueless on gaming it seems. They seemed to be heavily doubting that the xbox's size had anything to do with the failure in Japan.


That's not at all what they said. They said that it had far more to do with the games than the size, and that is about as true as it gets.
 
border said:
This American Life can be downloaded as a RealAudio file. Save the *.ram file to your desktop, then open it with Notepad. Inside is the link to the real file.

Feed that link to a program that can download stuff using the RTSP protocol, such as Offline Explorer.

Then Feed the completed *.ram file to an audio editor/convertor program, such as Goldwave. Convert to MP3 and you are good to go.

This works for Prairie Home Companion, and pretty much any other NPR show that offers RealAudio content.
i did have the thought, and it probably isn't even too hard to automate this process

BUT, the fact is i'm too lazy. that's why podcasts are so great!
 
Podcasts, more often that not, are moronic vanity projects. On their best day they still couldn't touch NPR programming in terms of sheer quality, much less match their tone or cover the same subject matter. It's worth it to get them as MP3.
 
oh, i meant podcasts as in RSS audio feeds you grab in chunklets to load onto an offline player. i guess i should've said that i think RSS is a great idea, because i'm lazy and data aggregation is great for the lazy
 
krypt0nian said:
Avoid this. They are great for deals but their clueless on gaming it seems. They seemed to be heavily doubting that the xbox's size had anything to do with the failure in Japan.

im just listening to it now and they think ghost recon warfighter involves planes? wtf?
 
border said:
Podcasts, more often that not, are moronic vanity projects. On their best day they still couldn't touch NPR programming in terms of sheer quality, much less match their tone or cover the same subject matter. It's worth it to get them as MP3.
That's why you get Science Friday. :)

http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=54725

I like DreamStation for my videogame radio. They speak fast but in radio, rather fast than slow. NEXT TOPIC.

Skepticality is nice so far, though I'm more curious as to what they're skeptic about. This would never replace SciFri. They need to lay off videogame news too. So does TWIT. I don't need to hear about GTA getting an AO rating from 3 different stations.
 
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