Help - downloading a podcast as mp3 file

[Loki]

Have him listen via your iPhone? If you have Bluetooth he doesn’t even have to hold it.

[jon-nyc]

I’m already using my iPhone during these rides.

[Aqua Letifer]

I use python scripts for such shenanigans, but there's probably a better way.

[jon-nyc]

I don't even understand why shenanigans would be necessary.

I go to econtalk or Sam Harris' podcasts, there's a download button that gives me the mp3.

Why would any free podcast not do this? Whatever ads they have still get listened to.

[Aqua Letifer]

@jon-nyc said in Help - downloading a podcast as mp3 file:

I don't even understand why shenanigans would be necessary.

I go to econtalk or Sam Harris' podcasts, there's a download button that gives me the mp3.

Why would any free podcast not do this? Whatever ads they have still get listened to.

You're still pulling it from the platform and that's almost certainly against the terms of use. Because if you have the mp3 you can strip the ads, and they lose all their tracking data on you.

[xenon]

I haven’t looked into this, but for many podcasts the incremental audience gained from providing mp3s is likely not with the effort of hosting them.

Sam runs a freemium model - which is only used across a small population of successful podcasts (to my understanding)

[89th]

How about YOU listen to the podcast and repeat out loud what you hear, so your son can listen to you repeating it. Solved. And no mp3s.

[taiwan_girl]

@89th

[Horace]

@89th said in Help - downloading a podcast as mp3 file:

How about YOU listen to the podcast and repeat out loud what you hear, so your son can listen to you repeating it. Solved. And no mp3s.

Also if he repeats it in Swahili his son could simultaneously learn Swahili.

[89th]

Jambo!!!