wrishel
06-06-2009, 03:02 PM
If you go to NPR.org, click a program and request that it be played you use the NPR Media Player (http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html).
Using ReplayCatcher to get an NPR show this way is superior to capturing the same show through ReplayAV. You have to step through each segment of the show for ReplayCatcher to collect the download, but it gets them all in parallel so the material is available much sooner in case one wants to transfer it to an iPod.
However, there is one glitch. No MP3 tags are created for the captured file. It would be great if ReplayCatcher could to this, but I suspect the information just isn't in the stream to be captured.
There is one thing ReplayCatcher could do that would be a big help: name the MP3 files in terms of the order that they are created rather than the order that they finish downloading.
Currently, if the first three files captured are
Segment 1 duration 1:30 , start at recording 14:21:30
Segment 2 4:30, duration start at recording 14:21:38
Segment 3: 1:30, duration start at recording 14:21:45
They would end up with these file names in the My Recordings directory
Segment 1: NPR Media Player.mp3
Segment 2: NPR Media Player(3).mp3
Segment 3: NPR Media Player(2).mp3
This is because the Segment 2 takes longer to download and finishes after Segment 3.
When this gets played back it will be played in the order Segment 1, Segment 3, Segment 2.
Ideally, ReplayCatcher would do one of these things:
name the mp3 files in sequence based on the time of the start of the download (e.g.,
Segment 1: NPR Media Player.mp3
Segment 2: NPR Media Player(2).mp3
Segment 3: NPR Media Player(3).mp3)
Name the MP3 files with a dismbiguator based on the clock time when the download started (e.g.,
Segment 1: NPR Media Player 142130.mp3
Segment 2: NPR Media Player 142138 .mp3
Segment 3: NPR Media Player 142145.mp3)
Create MP3 tags that include something that would sort on the sequence based on the start of the download
Thanks for considering this suggestion.
Using ReplayCatcher to get an NPR show this way is superior to capturing the same show through ReplayAV. You have to step through each segment of the show for ReplayCatcher to collect the download, but it gets them all in parallel so the material is available much sooner in case one wants to transfer it to an iPod.
However, there is one glitch. No MP3 tags are created for the captured file. It would be great if ReplayCatcher could to this, but I suspect the information just isn't in the stream to be captured.
There is one thing ReplayCatcher could do that would be a big help: name the MP3 files in terms of the order that they are created rather than the order that they finish downloading.
Currently, if the first three files captured are
Segment 1 duration 1:30 , start at recording 14:21:30
Segment 2 4:30, duration start at recording 14:21:38
Segment 3: 1:30, duration start at recording 14:21:45
They would end up with these file names in the My Recordings directory
Segment 1: NPR Media Player.mp3
Segment 2: NPR Media Player(3).mp3
Segment 3: NPR Media Player(2).mp3
This is because the Segment 2 takes longer to download and finishes after Segment 3.
When this gets played back it will be played in the order Segment 1, Segment 3, Segment 2.
Ideally, ReplayCatcher would do one of these things:
name the mp3 files in sequence based on the time of the start of the download (e.g.,
Segment 1: NPR Media Player.mp3
Segment 2: NPR Media Player(2).mp3
Segment 3: NPR Media Player(3).mp3)
Name the MP3 files with a dismbiguator based on the clock time when the download started (e.g.,
Segment 1: NPR Media Player 142130.mp3
Segment 2: NPR Media Player 142138 .mp3
Segment 3: NPR Media Player 142145.mp3)
Create MP3 tags that include something that would sort on the sequence based on the start of the download
Thanks for considering this suggestion.