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More than likely, you got it from Fresh Air's Podcast directory.
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=7060034 I
couldn't find an archive of old shows, but I know several efficient
methods for archiving and getting them. Instead of going to their website
daily or weekly, it's easier to use iTunes or some other podcast program
(like Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/ ) that automatically
downloads the latest podcast episode. I would recommend Apple's iTunes
and their iTunes store with its free podcast directory. With iTunes, you
can keep and download past episodes. Also, the "right click to save link
as" isn't as prevalent due to the need to monitor the traffic patterns,
etc, for downloads.
I'm not sure why you would e-mail them. Are you using e-mail as a way to
archive your saved podcasts? If you're looking into archiving and backup,
I would recommend Jungle Disk which uses Amazon's S3 service. It's 15
cents a gigabyte per month to store your data with them (it's encrypted
and it's a great way to store other important files like Word/Excel
documents and family photos). Jungle Disk looks like a network drive on
your computer, and you just drag and drop any file you want to on it.
Plus, you can run Jungle Disk on multiple computers: you upload an
episode from your work computer then download it to your home computer.
Or, if you want a bit more portability, then get an external, portable
hard drive from the likes of Western Digital or Seagate. If you just need
a free archive, then use Google's Gmail. You get about 6 gigabytes of
free space, plus I believe their upload limit is 20 megabytes.
And 20 megabytes (I downloaded the latest episode and it's encoded at 64
kbits which is considered somewhat low quality) is par for the course for
a fifty minute to one hour podcast. With the ubiquity of high speed
internet, there really isn't much need to encode it at a lower bit rate.
Frank Kusiak
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I thought I'd download a Friday Fresh Air program segment from NPR.
Somehow I managed to do it. I'm not able to replicate it today*. In any
case, it was the size of the mp3 file that got my attention, 20M, for
what I believe was not nearly a full hour. I have another archive site
for an AM radio station that I regularly download one hour programs. Up
until a few days ago, the mp3 files were generally very close to 10M,
easy to send via e-mail, but when I downloaded one earlier this week, it
was 20M. Is there something I'm missing that allows me to actually
select a format, quality maybe? Possibly, archives are now set to
larger than 10M files to prevent programs from being freely distributed
by e-mail?
*A short while ago I went to the Fresh Air archive, and tried
right-click on the audio to select Save Target Link. That often gets to
an mp3 source. In this case, it got me to a php file. However, I really
have no recollection how I got the file Friday. Maybe the web archive
changes day to day?? Puzzled.
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