RE Air America- Of interest if you're into Usenet

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

Someone has been recording Air America, converting the programs into mp3 format and posting them for download in alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.spoken-word (and possibly other groups). If you have use of a premium server there is at least a couple weeks worth of programming for the taking.

Just an FYI.

[Mojambo]

1. Very cool.

Thanks for the tip.

Too many people miss out on the filesharing opportunities that usenet provides.

[bullimiami]

2. the archives in mp3 have been at

http://www.airamericaplace.com/index.php

air america place for months.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. The usenet rips appear to be high bitrate archive-quality

NOT low-bandwidth streaming quality. Just in case someone is interested in cd-quality sound. Personally, I think it's a bit of a waste of bandwidth, but others may enjoy it.

[Chichiri]

3. General question . . .

If the mp3 data simply shows up on your screen as so much gibberish, how do you save that data into mp3 format? I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

5. Get a newsreader that's capable of saving a binary file

such as Forte Agent. Web browsers make lousy usenet readers.

[bullimiami]

6. dont open it

save link ... save it to a file.
make sure the file has a mp3 suffix.

that should do it as long as the file is good.


or a better newsreading program...yes that would do it.