Awesome command-line cross-platform media player (including for Android)

[Balabanov.Nicholas]

Currently, it looks like if you download all the individual MP3 talks, it comes to about 29.2GB.

April 2024 alone is 100.7MB (if you do whole sessions, it's 136MB).

April 1971 alone is 296.6MB.

what if all of those files can be converted into OGG format with compression?
I used that instead of MP3 because first - its GNU or Apache license that doesn't requires royalty in opposite to Mp3 format that is a private and requires a certain amount of royalty after specific amount?
As well as it can take less space on a Disk massive

[tbarnesiv]

Here's the updated General Conference talk MP3 URL list, which includes the latest General Conference and the older ones:

General Conference talks.m3u.zip

Don't forget that you can download them all in one go with wget by doing `wget -i "General Conference talks.m3u"`, but if you've already downloaded the previous MP3 files, don't download them all all over again; use the following file instead (which only has the latest conference):

April2024GeneralConference.m3u.zip


As a side note, I wanted to point out that I think it's actually more spiritually uplifting to listen to a whole session at a time, than random talks, but it's nice to be able to listen to random talks, still.

Thanks again as always. I like to use the following command so I don't clobber my already downloaded files:

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wget -i "General Conference Talks.m3u" -nc

[munaish]

Currently, it looks like if you download all the individual MP3 talks, it comes to about 29.2GB.

April 2024 alone is 100.7MB (if you do whole sessions, it's 136MB).

April 1971 alone is 296.6MB.

what if all of those files can be converted into OGG format with compression?
I used that instead of MP3 because first - its GNU or Apache license that doesn't requires royalty in opposite to Mp3 format that is a private and requires a certain amount of royalty after specific amount?
As well as it can take less space on a Disk massive

MP3 is an open format, and its patent expired about seven years ago (23 Apr 2017). So, you don't have to worry about that anymore!

I think when the patent was in force you only had to pay royalties if you were making software that used the encoder codec (which wasn't necessary to play MP3s; you use the decoder for that; the encoder could be used for converting other formats to MP3 and stuff like that). But yeah, I like free-software codecs, like OGG Vorbis, FLAC, and SPEEX (and Theora for video, which I think can be in an ogm file, or maybe it was ogv, which I think is the same as an OGG container).

[munaish]

Here's the updated General Conference talk MP3 URL list, which includes the latest General Conference and the older ones:

General Conference talks.m3u.zip

Don't forget that you can download them all in one go with wget by doing `wget -i "General Conference talks.m3u"`, but if you've already downloaded the previous MP3 files, don't download them all all over again; use the following file instead (which only has the latest conference):

April2024GeneralConference.m3u.zip


As a side note, I wanted to point out that I think it's actually more spiritually uplifting to listen to a whole session at a time, than random talks, but it's nice to be able to listen to random talks, still.

Thanks again as always. I like to use the following command so I don't clobber my already downloaded files:

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wget -i "General Conference Talks.m3u" -nc

You're welcome. Thanks for the tip!

[munaish]

Here is the playlist updated to also include the October 2024 General Conference MP3s (as well as previous ones):

General Conference talks.m3u.zip

Here's the playlist that only includes the October 2024 General Conference MP3s:

October2024GeneralConference.m3u.zip

[munaish]

The sound quality is up to 128k this session. That's awesome.

[bljohn]

For those that cannot stand the new filename structure (example: "d50d775680ff11efae28022e7e432ed942dd14f4-128k-en.mp3") they changed to this last October 2024 conference, here is a way to rename them fairly easily.

Download and install Mp3tag (https://www.mp3tag.de/en/download.html)
From the Menu select File > Change directory (Or press Ctrl+d) to change to the directory containing the files
Select all the files within Mp3tag (Ctrl + A)
From the Menu Select Convert -> "Tag - Filename" (Or press Alt + 1)
Update the format to how you want it. I used "%track% - %title%"
Press OK and it will rename all of them for you.

[munaish]

Here are the updated M3U playlists, adding the April 2025 General Conference MP3s.

I'm also including some Python 3.x download scripts in the archive (one for all conferences to date, and one just for this conference and the last one). I'm including them all in one zip file.

The Python download scripts allow you to download the MP3s using Python (without wget). They rename the files for this conference and the last one according to the previous pattern. If you don't want to download with the Python scripts, just ignore the .py files and do what you usually do.

I haven't fully debugged the Python scripts for scenarios when connections are lost and such, but ChatGPT thinks it should work. (It works fine when all goes as planned.) It won't redownload files that already exist in your current working directory where it downloads the files, and it shouldn't keep partially downloaded files unless you interrupt the program yourself. The Python scripts only use the standard library. These don't change the MP3 tags, currently.

Remember, the M3U files can be used to stream the Conferences (such as with `mpv "General Conference Talks.m3u"`). You can still use such as `wget -i "General Conference Talks.m3u" -nc` to download the MP3s via the M3U files, but it won't rename the files for the most recent two conferences appropriately if you do that. (The Python scripts will rename them.)

General_Conference_M3Us.zip