Title of the lessons...

cathasthreelives
July 29, 2007, 12:49 PM posted in General Discussion

I think this website is really awesome.

I wonder why the lessons, once downloaded, aren't titled.

The thing is, once you've downloaded a few Chinese pods, it's hard to remember which one is which with titles like: ''Chinesepod3ff009A''

 

It's possible to change it manually, but I think it would really make everyone's life easier to give them a proper title so to speak.

 

For example name the Chinese pod ''A Chinese contradiction'' instead of the coded hyeroglyph ^_^ 0_0 

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rich
July 29, 2007, 08:00 PM

In addition to that, I'd like to make a recommendation for the website is to at least be able to search on the lesson number you put in the filename! Usually I copy a lot of the MP3s to my MP3 player. After listening, sometimes I realize I need to come back here to the site and ask questions, or look at the vocab/expansion. My MP3 player (i.e. my cell phone) doesn't show me the Title information in the MP3. I can't search on "A429" or "429". So, either I have to remember a vocab word from the lesson and search on it, or weed through the "Lessons" pages (sometimes I listen to old lessons) until I find the area of those lesson numbers. It would actually be nicer if I could just type the URL for the lesson's discussion page, such as: http://www.chinesepod.com/learnchinese/429/discussion The URL's currently used aren't human friendly, as they are the long title name, and if they are Advanced or Media, they just got the encoded string for Chinese characters (%A5%89%BC%91) which is truly not human friendly and make no sense in remember and sharing Lesson URls. Some Newbie lessons even have punctuation from the Chinese character set, such as the single quote in the "I can't dance" lesson. At least make a URL to redirect to the long URL? Thanks, Rich

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rich
July 29, 2007, 08:01 PM

Oops... my example URL got turned into a truncated one. Something like: http:// ... /learnchinese/429/discussion

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maxiewawa
July 30, 2007, 01:36 AM

I think if you look at the ID tag, you can see the name of the lesson. iTunes automatically does this, which is why a lot of users don't have this problem.

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rich
July 30, 2007, 02:53 AM

my cell phone doesn't show the ID tag.