Narnia + Little Britain Audio Downloads

RufusA

The BBC have an archive of the last 7 days worth of radio shows available on their Listen Again website.

Today BBC7 have been broadcasting a dramatisation of the first four Narnia books (the next 4 are due at Easter). As well as 3 hours of solid Little Britain (the radio shows before they hit the "big time"):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/monday/

Audio is in Real Audio format. I use HiDownload to download to my HDD, and Streaming star also does an audio converter to convert to MP3 (although dbPowerAmp is IMHO much better at it).

30 day trials available at http://www.streamingstar.org

If you have a broadband connection then tweak the Options in HiDownload with 8 threads (Default), and 4 tasks (Connections).

You have until next Monday to complete the downloads.

HTH - Rufus.

gmc_3

Is there any free software that does the same job?

Thanks

teenage_Drama

https://www.real.com

you need realplayer to listen to these downloads

Poppycat

Or try real alternative much better and uses less disc space/resources than real player

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm

hazza_2

gmc wrote:

Is there any free software that does the same job?

Thanks

Net Transport can save real streams to your hard drive or if you're happy with using the command line try mplayer which can write directly to .wav files.

For converting real audio files to something more usable dBpowerAMP is the easiest but Winamp with the Tara plugin and a disk writer plugin can offer much better speed.

gmc_3

hazza wrote:

Net Transport can save real streams to your hard drive or if you're happy with using the command line try mplayer which can write directly to .wav files.

For converting real audio files to something more usable dBpowerAMP is the easiest but Winamp with the Tara plugin and a disk writer plugin can offer much better speed.

Thanks

G

Sharra

Sorry to be thick - I've downloaded MiDownload but I can't work out how to download those shows - is there any chance you could explain how to do it please?

RufusA

For HiDownload, if installed, are you are using Internet Explorer, then simply right click on the link to the radio show, and select "Download by Hidownload". For other browsers copy the URL link for the stream you want to record, then from within HiDownload click on the Add icon, and paste the URL in to the top box.

When HiDownload fires up, it will give you the option to select the location to save the file. Real Audio can be a little confusing as there are actually 2 files saved, a very small ram file, which simply contains a pointer to an ra file which has the content.

To listen to it once downloaded, fire up Real Audio (or similar) and open the .ra file in it.

HTH - Rufus.

Sharra

Thanks - I was trying to use Mozilla which didnt give me that download option

franney

Hi, thanks for this great post!
I seem to be having a little trouble downloading the "Prince Caspian" stream though. It takes me to the BBC radio player and not a link to the .ra/.ram file and it isn't possible to save it from there.
I'm going to try using NetTransporter and see if that works, i just wondered if anyone else was having the same problem.
Can't wait to get them on CD so i can listen to them in the car!

jimbob_3

hi

i cant seem to make any of them work

ive downloaded hidownload, switched to IE, found the download bit by rightclicking but then i only get a 37 k file not the full broadcast - what am i doing wrong or what else do i need to do?

thanks