Anyone know where I can get old podcasts of BBC shows. I am particularly 
looking for News Quiz, but more general if poss.

I have checked iTunes and they don't seem to have this particular show.

On a related note, do you have to have an iTunes account to download the 
free podcasts. I seem to download them, takes a fair while, but then cannot 
get at them.

One further question (sorry about the meanderings), when I downloaded some 
BBC shows they came as a .ram file, which seems to just  be a link that RAP 
converts. Any idea how I can get hold of the actual file. I seem to remember 
reading how somewhere once, but have forgotten how and where it was.

TIA

Bob

On 23/10/2007 11:50, Bob Phillips wrote:

> One further question (sorry about the meanderings), when I downloaded some 
> BBC shows they came as a .ram file, which seems to just  be a link that RAP 
> converts. Any idea how I can get hold of the actual file.

Open the .ram file with a text editor, within it you should see URLs 
pointing to the actual .ra files, simply download those files with a 
browser.

"Andy Burns"  wrote in message 
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> On 23/10/2007 11:50, Bob Phillips wrote:
>
>> One further question (sorry about the meanderings), when I downloaded 
>> some BBC shows they came as a .ram file, which seems to just  be a link 
>> that RAP converts. Any idea how I can get hold of the actual file.
>
> Open the .ram file with a text editor, within it you should see URLs 
> pointing to the actual .ra files, simply download those files with a 
> browser.
>

Did that Andy, but all I could see was an rtsp:// protocol link, with a .rm 
file, and an argument (?BBC-UID=<!--#if expr='$HTTP_COOKIE = 
/BBC-UID=([^;]{64})/' -->) which just tried to launch the application (RAP).

Any thoughts?

On 23/10/2007 13:54, Bob Phillips wrote:

> "Andy Burns"  wrote in message 
> news:13hrl8la6328h64@corp.supernews.com...
>> On 23/10/2007 11:50, Bob Phillips wrote:
>>
>>> One further question (sorry about the meanderings), when I downloaded 
>>> some BBC shows they came as a .ram file, which seems to just  be a link 
>>> that RAP converts. Any idea how I can get hold of the actual file.
>> Open the .ram file with a text editor, within it you should see URLs 
>> pointing to the actual .ra files, simply download those files with a 
>> browser.
>>
> 
> Did that Andy, but all I could see was an rtsp:// protocol link, with a .rm 
> file, and an argument (?BBC-UID=<!--#if expr='$HTTP_COOKIE = 
> /BBC-UID=([^;]{64})/' -->) which just tried to launch the application (RAP).

They often used to be plain http:// URLs, If you search about there are 
rtsp:// downloaders about, the only ones that I readily found were for 
linux or were commercial though, I'm sure if you look you'll find one 
that suits you ...

Thanks mate, will start looking.



"Andy Burns"  wrote in message 
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> On 23/10/2007 13:54, Bob Phillips wrote:
>
>> "Andy Burns"  wrote in message 
>> news:13hrl8la6328h64@corp.supernews.com...
>>> On 23/10/2007 11:50, Bob Phillips wrote:
>>>
>>>> One further question (sorry about the meanderings), when I downloaded 
>>>> some BBC shows they came as a .ram file, which seems to just  be a link 
>>>> that RAP converts. Any idea how I can get hold of the actual file.
>>> Open the .ram file with a text editor, within it you should see URLs 
>>> pointing to the actual .ra files, simply download those files with a 
>>> browser.
>>>
>>
>> Did that Andy, but all I could see was an rtsp:// protocol link, with a 
>> .rm file, and an argument (?BBC-UID=<!--#if expr='$HTTP_COOKIE = 
>> /BBC-UID=([^;]{64})/' -->) which just tried to launch the application 
>> (RAP).
>
> They often used to be plain http:// URLs, If you search about there are 
> rtsp:// downloaders about, the only ones that I readily found were for 
> linux or were commercial though, I'm sure if you look you'll find one that 
> suits you ...

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:19:07 +0100, Andy Burns
 wrote:

>On 23/10/2007 13:54, Bob Phillips wrote:
>
>> "Andy Burns"  wrote in message 
>> news:13hrl8la6328h64@corp.supernews.com...
>>> On 23/10/2007 11:50, Bob Phillips wrote:
>>>
>>>> One further question (sorry about the meanderings), when I downloaded 
>>>> some BBC shows they came as a .ram file, which seems to just  be a link 
>>>> that RAP converts. Any idea how I can get hold of the actual file.
>>> Open the .ram file with a text editor, within it you should see URLs 
>>> pointing to the actual .ra files, simply download those files with a 
>>> browser.
>>>
>> 
>> Did that Andy, but all I could see was an rtsp:// protocol link, with a .rm 
>> file, and an argument (?BBC-UID=<!--#if expr='$HTTP_COOKIE = 
>> /BBC-UID=([^;]{64})/' -->) which just tried to launch the application (RAP).
>
>They often used to be plain http:// URLs, If you search about there are 
>rtsp:// downloaders about, the only ones that I readily found were for 
>linux or were commercial though, I'm sure if you look you'll find one 
>that suits you ...


Here we go again ...

Get NetTransport ... it has a URL sniffer which detects the audio
(rtsp) file which you can then download.

Bob Phillips wrote:
> "Andy Burns"  wrote in message
> news:13hrl8la6328h64@corp.supernews.com...
>> On 23/10/2007 11:50, Bob Phillips wrote:
>>
>>> One further question (sorry about the meanderings), when I
>>> downloaded some BBC shows they came as a .ram file, which seems to
>>> just  be a link that RAP converts. Any idea how I can get hold of
>>> the actual file.
>>
>> Open the .ram file with a text editor, within it you should see URLs
>> pointing to the actual .ra files, simply download those files with a
>> browser.
>>
>
> Did that Andy, but all I could see was an rtsp:// protocol link, with
> a .rm file, and an argument (?BBC-UID=<!--#if expr='$HTTP_COOKIE =
> /BBC-UID=([^;]{64})/' -->) which just tried to launch the application
> (RAP).
> Any thoughts?

I use a programme called Switch (free). You select your RAM file, it 
connects, reads it (at double speed I think) and converts it to WAV, MP3 
etc. Not ideal, because still reasonably slow compared with a straight 
download, but it works happily in the background.

You can find it here
http://nch.com.au/switch/index.html

"Bob Phillips"  wrote in message 
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>
> On a related note, do you have to have an iTunes account to download the 
> free podcasts.

No, you don't.  There are lots of other programs which will download 
podcasts for you.  The one I use is Juice. 
(http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/).  Once it is installed, you just 
subscribe to the podcasts you want, and Juice will check to see if there are 
new editions of the programmes and download them for you in mp3 format.
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