The LDS church makes its general conference sessions available as
downloadable MP3s, which is great, except my iPod treats them as songs.
I prefer for it to treat them as podcasts so that I can resume playing
the talks where I leave off after each day's commute to work. To that
end, I created a podcast RSS feed for the October 2005 General
Conference, downloadable here:
http://thesmithfam.org/podcasts/lds-general-conference.xml
If you're a podcast addict like myself, you should know what to do with
that link. If not, any popular podcasting software should work. Just
find an option to "subscribe to a podcast" and use it with the above
URL. This should work with amaroK, gtkPod, Juice, or any iPod/podcasting
software.
This feed lets you grab each whole session (4 total), but not individual
talks. If there is demand, I may hack some python to automagically
create a feed for each talk, which would be pretty darn cool too.
Note that I am not actually distributing the content; this podcast
simply points to lds.org to download the MP3 files. This should avoid
any legal issues, since I have respected all copyrights. I'm not a
lawyer, but I've read all the fine print on lds.org and can't find
anything prohibiting this, so let me know if you think I'm in violation.
Enjoy!
--Dave
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