Downloading Lessons

surells
July 09, 2008, 10:49 AM posted in General Discussion

Hey, sorry to bother everyone. I've been listening to the newbie lessons on my ipod and thought they were heads and shoulders above any of the other Chinese podcasts, so I thought I'd go back and get all of the original newbie lessons.

I signed up and they are just as good as I'd hoped, but I'm having trouble getting them from the site into itunes for repeated listenings. The icons at the botttom of the media bar don't seem to work, and there are only the most recent lessons available on itunes. Does anyone know how I can do this, or are only the most recent lessons allowed to be downloaded?

Thanks in advance for any help that can be offered, and if any of the Chinesepod team read this, thanks for creating such a brilliant teaching device (You guys rule, Ken and Jenny)!

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pinkjeans
July 09, 2008, 11:31 AM

I have the same problem trying to access older lessons and I have written emails in. Adi says she has forwarded the problem to the production manager. I also posted something on this in the Inner Circle group but I don't think I got a response yet. At the moment the new lessons are keeping me occupied enough, but when the level gets too difficult (like Advanced and Media), I use my usual CPod time to get to old lessons. It's just such a pain navigating through.

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adiiasdadasda
July 10, 2008, 10:15 AM

Hi Surells

For information on how to download old lessons to your iTunes please go to http://www.chinesepod.com/help/technical#5

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surells
July 11, 2008, 12:35 PM

Hmmm, I've been doing the whole right clicking method advised here http://www.chinesepod.com/help/technical#5

The whole right click thing only seems to work on some of them, for example, I have dowloaded 2 and 6, but when I try 1 or 3 it just downloads a text page. Most confusing. I'm guessing you're right pinkjeans and some changes within the site have rended the link useless, it will proabably just have to be done once more, but who knows when anone will get a chance to do that. Oh well, I'll just have to listen on my comp, and enjoy 2 and 6 when I'm out and about.

Cheers for your help.

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adiiasdadasda
July 17, 2008, 02:17 AM

Hi Surells

When you save target as - add .mp3 on the end of the file name.

For example

chinesepod_N0004pb

You add .mp3 at the end of the file name, so become

chinesepod_N0004pb.mp3

then click save

We had this problems with the older lessons and we apology for that. Let me know if you still have problems with it.

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poopzilla
July 18, 2008, 11:15 AM

adii says:

When you save target as - add .mp3 on the end of the file name.

My thinking is that CP should fix such quality issues first before adding new "toys" like groups, ajax stuff, etc.

Not everybody is a computer geek and knows how trick the download.