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Dec 06, 2012 - 02:06 PM
thanks Eric! Do you plan to upload these through iTunes?
Dec 06, 2012 - 07:44 PM
Kristin, if you download them from here, you can load them into ITunes. As I recall, I moved them into my Itunes directory and then imported them. If you can't figure out how, leave a message and I'll try to recreate it step-by-step. (I should say that, the way the ITunes store works, I think if they offered them in ITunes, they could neither restrict them to to registered users nor would they have the names of those who purchased them (were they to offer them for a fee) for cross-marketing purposes. Apple drives content providers nuts by insisting that those who purchase content are ITS customers, rather than (or to the exclusion of) the publisher.
Dec 07, 2012 - 07:41 AM
thanks Jim, I can get them into iTunes, but they seem to be treated as songs rather than podcasts. I have better control over them as podcasts (15 second rewind, for example). I downloaded Italian 1 from Fluenz commons, but levels 2 and 3 from iTunes, which is why I noticed the difference. They are all Mp3s, so I don't know how iTunes assigns them to each category.
Dec 13, 2012 - 12:23 AM
Kristin, what you say is true. What I do is to group those for each course into playlists and manually reorder them so that they will be in proper sequence. It takes a couple of minutes, but works great. Still not podcasts, of course, but I know where to find them.
Dec 14, 2012 - 04:46 PM
Thanks Jim. I did that, I made a play list, and also did some research to see how I could make iTunes recognize them as podcasts, but my patience and time ran out before I got the answer. The first three levels are available through iTunes, so hopefully these will be added too. I love the 15-sec rewind (or forward) and you can also slow it down, which helps a lot. For now, I'm just listening faster. ;-)