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BrianLe
02-07-2014, 18:58
I'd like to download a whole bunch of (freely available) podcasts all in one go, i.e., "batch mode", rather than get them one-at-a time. I've poked around some and am not seeing a ready way to do this.
So for example, it would be great if I could say "Give me the most recent TEDtalks in mp3 format up to X gigabytes worth total", and have all of the files come down at once. I can get them one-at-a-time, but it's pretty tedious.

Perhaps this is something that only long distance hikers would want to do (?), but at any rate it strikes me as a problem that other long distance hikers might have encountered and resolved.

TIA for any thoughts on this.

Mags
02-07-2014, 19:37
This may work.

For FireFox
http://www.downthemall.net/howto/features/


Something similar for Chrome:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/downloadall/ajffocjdcmpgjmdfdfkdfdbkjafbkcke?hl=en

Down Them Alll! has worked for me in the past. Never used the work-alike for Chrome. May be worth using FireFox just for the extension.

mudsocks
02-08-2014, 00:43
You could even mass-download the Trail Show (http://www.thetrailshow.com/). :banana

Mags
02-09-2014, 00:07
You could even mass-download the Trail Show (http://www.thetrailshow.com/). :banana

God help you.. :)

Shutter
02-10-2014, 11:29
BrianLe if you want to use your phone check out "pocketCasts" it costs just a few bucks but it's damn worth it.

http://www.shiftyjelly.com/pocketcasts

Each podcast that you subscribe to can either auto download or you can download them yourself. You just click on each episode and it'll start to download, takes 2 seconds to queue up a bunch of episodes. I wish I had this on the A.T. a few years ago. On the PCT it'll be great to queue up as many podcasts as possible while in town. You can stream or download to listen later.

I don't work for PocketCasts, I just love the app.