{"id":801,"date":"2009-05-01T20:34:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T20:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/801"},"modified":"2009-05-01T20:34:55","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T20:34:55","slug":"video-killed-the-mp3-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/801","title":{"rendered":"Video killed the MP3 download?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I missed Obama&#8217;s press conference on Wednesday and wanted to listen to it on my long commute home yesterday. To my surprise, it was easy to find full video and typically a full-text transcript of the conference from sites like The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/04\/29\/obama-100-days-press-conf_n_193283.html\">Huffington<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/04\/29\/obamas-100-days-press-con_n_193143.html\">Post<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=103636986\">NPR.org<\/a> as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aGMcJBAomUo\">YouTube<\/a> and directly from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/09\/04\/30\/The-Presidents-Remarks-on-H1N1\/\">White House Blog<\/a>, but no audio-only sources. Eventually I had to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farkie.com\/\">Farkie<\/a>, a free online video-converter to download the Youtube video and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farkie.com\/farkieDownloader.php?taskid=2470\">convert it to MP3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Am I missing some obvious source source, or has video made such headway now that nobody even bothers making audio-only versions available anymore?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed Obama&#8217;s press conference on Wednesday and wanted to listen to it on my long commute home yesterday. To my surprise, it was easy to find full video and typically a full-text transcript of the conference from sites like The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/04\/29\/obama-100-days-press-conf_n_193283.html\">Huffington<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/04\/29\/obamas-100-days-press-con_n_193143.html\">Post<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=103636986\">NPR.org<\/a> as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aGMcJBAomUo\">YouTube<\/a> and directly from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/09\/04\/30\/The-Presidents-Remarks-on-H1N1\/\">White House Blog<\/a>, but no audio-only sources. Eventually I had to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farkie.com\/\">Farkie<\/a>, a free online video-converter to download the Youtube video and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farkie.com\/farkieDownloader.php?taskid=2470\">convert it to MP3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Am I missing some obvious source source, or has video made such headway now that nobody even bothers making audio-only versions available anymore?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}