How to download MSDN webcasts and listen on your MP3 player – level 100
For a while, MSDN Live Meeting webcasts had to be captured manually by something like NetTransport 2. Now, Microsoft is offering a .wmv file download for offline viewing. Personally, I get more out of the audio, and I can listen on the way to/from work as well as while at the gym. My wife laughs about how “nerdy” I am because I have headphones at the gym while working out, and while folks think I”m listening to some motivating heavy metal, I’m listening to new and cool ways to use the .Net Framework!
I use Windows Media Encoder 9 to get pull out the audio stream and create a .wma file that can be listened to with any portable audio player. I use 1.25% time compression to shorten the time it takes to listen to the content. It makes the speaker talk faster, but it’s still good. It can take out long pauses as well.
Not a bad idea to speed it up. I’ll give that a try.
Right on, man!
I was thinking about it a long time ago!!! Thank you!
Great tip!
I’ve got so many Webcasts queued… now I can listen to them on the train to work 😉
I’ve done that for about 4 years now since “The MSDN Show” went to “The DotNet Show”. The technobabble is a good driving and flying companion. I pulled down a few hundred webcasts, put them on MP3 and played them on my commute. I would check-off and rate them as worthy of repeat or to avoid. DotNet rocks is also a good one already MP3’d but has less technical value.
An WMA/MP3 car stereo – what a genius. Now we have a reason to sit in traffic.
I would also use NetTransport 2 but now just put the WMVs in Windows Movie Maker and slice up as needed before moving to the sound track and exporting only the sound to WMA.
You are hard core if you put it to 1.25% the time. I’ll have to try that.
What a bunch of nerds.
-VinceB
Yes, we are a bunch of nerds, but where did all the “popular” kids go?