Grab stuff with less clicking
My studious partner wants to listen to a Latin podcast on her audio player. She has a bit of catch up to do, there are hundred probably thousands of mp3 files to download. Now I know there are all kinds of graphical download plugins and managers I could use but I prefer something a bit quicker and more simple.
I am speaking of course of the wonderful wget. Now I am no terminal guru, I am far too lazy to read all those Man pages, so I just trawled the net for five minutes instead. This was about half the time it would have taken to read (and interpret) the Man.
Jeffrey Veen was kind enough to give me the lowdown:
wget -r -l1 -H -t1 -nd -N -np -A.mp3 -erobots=off -i ~/mp3blogs.txt
Along with a wonderfully clear explanation...
Maybe next time I'll remember at least some of that stuff.
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however...
Of course nothing is ever quite so simple. The podcast mp3 files have a naming convention invented by the devil.
e.g. latinum_20100124_1649-584878.mp3
It would be better if I could pull down the files AND rename them according to the title of the post (whilst keeping the [playing order).
Shouldn't be too hard, although it would be nice to keep, amend or add any ID3 info at the same time.
Ruben
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