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Downloading Show Files Directly

Post by mowestusa » Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:20 am

Hi guys,
I'm sure there is an easy way to do this, but I'm not finding it. I'm on vacation right now, on a windows machine only, and I can't seem to download the show audio files in Firefox or in IE.

Usually on my Linux boxes, I use bashpodder and that works great. If I need to down load the shows directly to the desktop, I copy the web address that comes up when you click on MP3 or OGG. Then I use wget. When I try to right click on those links, and chose "Save Target As" all I get is a html or php file. Any ideas? Normally for other shows I can do a direct download of the files with "Save Target As", but with the special mirror network for tllts, this must not work in the browsers.

Thanks for the help.
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Re: Downloading Show Files Directly

Post by Patrick » Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:29 am

These are the direct links:
http://www.tllts.org/audio/tllts_252-07-02-08.ogg
http://www.tllts.org/audio/tllts_252-07-02-08.mp3

Just change the show and date information for the episode you want.
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Re: Downloading Show Files Directly

Post by mowestusa » Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:55 am

Patrick wrote:These are the direct links:
http://www.tllts.org/audio/tllts_252-07-02-08.ogg
http://www.tllts.org/audio/tllts_252-07-02-08.mp3

Just change the show and date information for the episode you want.
Thanks Pat,
I had to create a quick HTML document with a <a href=> tag, open it in Firefox then choose "Save Target As" and now I'm in business, and downloading right now. Thanks for letting me get my TLLTS fix on vacation. :-)
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Re: Downloading Show Files Directly

Post by Gomer_X » Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:13 pm

mowestusa wrote:When I try to right click on those links, and chose "Save Target As" all I get is a html or php file. Any ideas? Normally for other shows I can do a direct download of the files with "Save Target As", but with the special mirror network for tllts, this must not work in the browsers.
I usually just keep doing it over and over. After about the 5th time, you get the actual file rather than the HTML page.

I don't know why. :)

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Re: Downloading Show Files Directly

Post by Linc » Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:02 pm

Gomer_X wrote:
mowestusa wrote:When I try to right click on those links, and chose "Save Target As" all I get is a html or php file. Any ideas? Normally for other shows I can do a direct download of the files with "Save Target As", but with the special mirror network for tllts, this must not work in the browsers.
I usually just keep doing it over and over. After about the 5th time, you get the actual file rather than the HTML page.

I don't know why. :)
That's odd. I never have any problems unless the file is missing from one of the mirrors. In fact, here I am grabbing the last show:

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Re: Downloading Show Files Directly

Post by Gomer_X » Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:10 pm

Linc wrote:
Gomer_X wrote:
mowestusa wrote:When I try to right click on those links, and chose "Save Target As" all I get is a html or php file. Any ideas? Normally for other shows I can do a direct download of the files with "Save Target As", but with the special mirror network for tllts, this must not work in the browsers.
I usually just keep doing it over and over. After about the 5th time, you get the actual file rather than the HTML page.

I don't know why. :)
That's odd. I never have any problems unless the file is missing from one of the mirrors. In fact, here I am grabbing the last show:
That's because you're using my mirror, which is the best. :)

Actually I should have been more clear. This only happens when I try to download the show in IE by going in from the TLLTS front page and right-click the MP3 link and do "Save target as." It only happens sometimes.

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Re: Downloading Show Files Directly

Post by LinuxMint-4 » Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:52 pm

I always used this link to download shows directly.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheLinuxLinkTechShowMp3Feed
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