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Dirty Greek - Download This American Life Episodes
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Entertainment : Download This American Life Episodes
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NOTE: I'm not hosting these. This is just a workaround to get them from the streaming servers.
Then, use this link to download the eps... You can change the url to that page to change the first and last episodes.
http://www.dirtygreek.org/stuff/tal.php?min=314&max=321, for instance, will show you eps 314 - 321.
If you want to be a real nerd about it (and hey, who doesn't?!), you can download and install curl.
Then, you can use this batch file I wrote to download the files you want. You'll have to know what you're doing, though.
I got these by decompiling the flash player on the TAL site.
http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/jomamashouse/ismymamashouse/SHOWNUMBER.mp3
Just replace SHOWNUMBER with the number.
Of course, the easiest way to get new episodes of TAL is to subscribe to their podcast.
UPDATE: If you're tired of randomly deciding which episode to listen to, I hacked out a script to rename them based on a list of episode names I found on Wikipedia and formatted to suit my purpose. If any of you other TAL obsessed folks want to use it, feel free. You'll have to do this on a windows computer, unless macs can run visual basic scripts...
There are two files you need,
Rename TAL Episodes.vbs
episodelist.txt
Download a zip of the files here.
All you have to do is drop these two files wherever you have the This American Life mp3s, then go into Rename TAL Episodes.vbs and change g:\mp3\tal\ to wherever you want the renamed files to go (c:\mp3\ or whatever). Save it, then double click Rename TAL Episodes.vbs. This is going to make copies of each file, so send it somewhere that has the space. Did that so I didn't screw up my or your mp3s just in case something went awry. You can always delete the old ones once you're satisfied they were copied correctly.
Also, this assumes that your files are named tal-number.mp3, like tal-1.mp3, tal-2.mp3, etc, because that's how they're named when you get them from the server.
You'll have to add any new episodes by hand to the file, or you can always rename them one by one once you have the bulk of your files renamed using this script. If you add them to the file, just put them in chronological order in episodelist.txt in the format episodenumber-episodetitle. Ex: 1-New Beginning
This worked great for me. I didn't edit the ID3 tags, but if you care, you can always get a program that changes the tags based on the filename.
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Posted By George on 12/02/2006 @ 18:02 | Link and Discuss (6) | More Entertainment
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AWESOME! |
| wow. this is truly a great workaround to get the MP3s!
Thank you so much! TAL is my favorite show! |
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Posted by lightng on 12/01/2006 @ 07:01
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you have not paid for them |
| @Dante
You have not paid for the content. PRI is a private organization that sells content to NPR member stations. Your donations to your local NPR station pays for the broadcast rights to this show. Your funds do not directly fund the work of Ira Glass or any of the other contributors to public radio. |
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Posted by john arlington on 12/03/2007 @ 23:02
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| Dang! I thought I was brilliant and original for having figured this out in 15 minutes today.
I used Wireshark to sniff that podcast player's traffic. The HTTP request for the MP3 file was easy to pick out, as was the file naming convention.
Anyway, here's the Bash script I used to download the stuff. It's suitable for *nix, Cygwin, and maybe OS X.
####Getsum all######
#!/bin/bash
for i in `seq 1 330`; do
echo "http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/jomamashouse/ismymamashouse/$i.mp3"
done
####################
They would do *slightly* better to protect their content if they generated random filenames that expire with the user's session, and if they throttled their streaming speed.
But maybe it's not that important to them. Perhaps they recognize that ss a taxpayer and NPR member, I've already paid them for their work. |
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Posted by Dante on 12/04/2006 @ 23:00
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| Holy clipboard!
#!/bin/bash
for i in `seq 1 330`; do
echo "http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/jomamashouse/ismymamashouse/$i.mp3" | xargs wget
done |
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Posted by Dante on 12/04/2006 @ 23:00
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Number 5? |
| Does anyone know why show number 5 is not available? Or where I can get a copy?
I realize that this is months after the fact, so no one will see this, but if you do and you have an answer, please e-mail me: justinkoavf@gmail.com |
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Posted by Justin Anthony Knapp on 12/05/2006 @ 16:01
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Number 8, as well |
| Second verse, same as the first. |
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Posted by Justin Anthony Knapp on 12/05/2006 @ 16:01
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