Who broke the feeds

adamssl
 April 24, 2007, 07:23 AM posted in General Discussion

Hrmz. Interesting update to the webpage. BUT!

 One of the things I loved about chinesepod was the ability to have itunes tied to the "elementary" feed. It auto downloaded every elementery lesson, and I saved every single one of them.

It was great. It was convenient. If I needed a quick brushup on language in a restraunt, I could find it on my ipod. Send a fax? There it is. I don't want the lessons to just learn RIGHT THEN, I want to catalog and keep them forever.

With the new update they were all wiped out, and now I can't find any similar feed that links to a full history of all past elementery lessons. So... anyone have any ideas? Is there some hidden, mystery feed where I can go get ALL, and ONLY the elementery lessons?

 :(

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adamssl
 April 27, 2007, 01:05 AM

In the end, I opted for both #1 and #2. Get the past, get the future. A little time-consuming, but considering the amount of content I don't mind at all. It would be nice if you could hit the "bookmark" button and not have it bounce you back to your personal study page, rather stay on the archive list page. Nice work with the site. Really revolutionary idea. How very "Web 2.0" of you. :-)

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rich
 April 24, 2007, 03:42 PM

Yeah... I would ilke to know too. Actually I'm just now getting into using Feeds to display data even on my own web site. Hopefully there will be easy ways to get any episode from a feed list that is parsed anywhere (Google, Yahoo, personal web pages, etc.)

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hankfdh
 April 25, 2007, 01:28 AM

Few ways to do this. #1 Browse through the archive and bookmark lessons you want. Schedule them on your calendar and they will be added to your personal feed. #2 To get all future lessons by level, simply select the levels you wish to receive in Your Feed and they will automatically delivered (including simplified PDFs, traditional PDF's and just the core dialogue if you wish). #3 We are preparing a ChinesePod 500 BitTorrent file with all the previous lessons. Hopefully, we will get this done before the May Holiday here (i.e. next Monday).