MP3 Audio Files from General Conference
We are happy to announce that all the MP3s from this weekend’s s general conference are available in Cantonese, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
This is record time in getting all these sessions and individual files…
Here’s the link to General Conference: http://lds.org/conference/languages/0,6353,310-1,00.html
And to English: http://lds.org/conference/sessions/display/0,5239,23-1-690,00.html
I for one am VERY impressed at how quickly the MP3s came on-line. I downloaded the first two sessions yesterday afternoon and I plan to downloand the rest when I get home from work tonight. By tomorrow morning, I’ll be listening to conference on my commute to work!
THANK YOU!
Will there be a podcast setup for these? If so, I’d like to see several iterations, 1st Presidency talks, Quorum of 12 talks, Full Conference Talks, Per Session, women’s broadcast, Priesthood session, etc…
Congratulations appear to be in order… but I can’t seem to locate an actual link to the downloads page. Am I missing something?
(Safari)
On a related note: I found the files myself, and am happy to see that they download without a hitch… though I am a little frazzled that I have to download each and every one separately. Perhaps you’ll offer a ZIP of all MP3s once the priesthood session is available?
Yes. I know there’s a “Whole Session” MP3 available… but that’s not the way I want to listen to Conference, and I’m betting I’m not alone.
Beyond that, I’m happy to see that the MP3 tags are being used — but am sad to see that the TITLE tag is the monstrous file name and not the name of the talk. I’m also bummed that there’s no album art. It’s a small thing, but album art makes it feel complete.
Oh… and the ALBUM ARTIST should be “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” as well.
Wow, such speed! Thanks for all your hard work on getting the conference proceedings available for download. Know that your work is appreciated by thousands.
Excellent, thank you! nice to have these available and available so quickly. I agree concerning creating a ZIP bundle of all the mp3s.
Wow. Congrats. Really is record speed.
Very helpful. Thank you very much!
Congrats on getting these up so quickly. However I must admit that I was very disappointed to read that the videos would not be available for download for up to 8 WEEKS! They used to be available within about 5 days, allowing those of us outside of North America to actually view them online instead of having to try and find a seat at the packed Stake Centre the following weekend. Yes I realize that you can watch them via BYU.tv, but that is a much less flexible option (”hey kids, let’s all crowd around in front of the PC”). Oh well…
Could you help me understand why the church doesn’t put out the Priesthood session on MP3? I have always wondered this. I believe when you buy the cds/tapes of conference you can get the session, or at least i thought. I can understand perhaps being delayed, but do you know what reason there is for no MP3s?
Thanks for all your comments above.
Yes, we intend to add the rest of the metadata and include album art (a pulpit shot of the speaker), and we’ll do this when the text of the talks is finalized in the next few days. We didn’t want to wait for these items before publishing the MP3s. It’s a trade-off between waiting for all the information to publish perfectly-formed files, and getting them up quickly.
We will also create some trial podcasts. I’ll blog here when they’re ready.
Regarding the priesthood session, it is a closed meeting and the Church doesn’t want to make it as public as the other general sessions. You can get the text online, but you’ll need to get the CD for the audio or the DVD for the video.
Thanks for the info. I think its great that the audio files are already up so fast. Thanks.
On the album art: it’s album art, so I’m hoping you’ll stick to conventions and only have one picture shared among all the MP3s in a session… Also, I’m hoping you’ll drop the text of the talk into the LYRICS tag.
And I figured the metadata would be improved with a little time.
As for priesthood being a closed session, well, um… yeah. No comment.
Not having the priesthood seesion available as mp3 is of course very disappointing. But I’m also wondering if you will be adding it as a wmv file for viewing.
The download of 94mb for quicktime is equally frustrating. It would be very nice to stream it as it has been in the past.
I do really appreciate these all being available - and so quickly.
Thank you.
I’ve been using the mp3 files since they first were available and love it.
I always wish the conference music was there.
In addition to the mp3 files of the individual talks, there are also mp3 files of the entire sessions. These files have all the music. The session files are in the gold bar above the files of the individual talks from the session.
With all due respect, the notion that the Priesthood session is closed and so it won’t receive the same availability (no mp3’s no on-line video, etc.) just seems, well, unhelpful. Is the R.S. meeting not “closed”. Why are MP3s of it available. I’ll confess right here. I’m a guy, and I LISTEN TO THE RS SESSION!!!!! Scandalous, I know, but there it is. My dark secret is out.
Seriously though. Many of us are priesthood leaders. We are anxious to be able to internalize the messages. Some of the most important for us as leaders are delivered at Priesthood. Commute time and other down-times are some of the best opportunities for us to listen and absorb. It really baffles me who is being served by making access to the Priesthood audio and video–not impossible, only highly inconvenient. I beg anyone who will listen to hear my plea. Let us have the word freely. There are no secrets in the Priesthood meeting.
I agree with the last comment. I would really like to have the priesthood on mp3. I use the files to review the talks often, and am saddened that I don’t get to review the priesthood in the same way without purchasing the whole conference on compact disc.
What I want to know is that if it is a closed session, why make it available on compact disc and in print? I think that it being a closed session at the time it is given to the brethren of the church is right, but afterwards it should be allowed to be on mp3 like everything else. If for no other reason, it should be available so that visually impaired people not be required to purchase the compact discs just to listen to the messages. But secondarily, so others can review the talks with ease.
I’ll go with decisions of the church, but I just want to let my thoughts be known.
I too agree that priesthood session should have an MP3. I drive a lot and would love to listen to the talk multiple times.