Here's my JAM downloading guide Version 1.0.0:
Feel free to contact me off-list if you have any questions, as I tried
to be as straightforward as possible.
How to download JAM in a few easy steps:
JAM Downloading Guide v1.0.0
Software you will need:
Web browser - Netscape, IE, Firefox, Opera, etc...
Text editor - Notepad, Wordpad, Office, OpenOffice, etc...
Download manager - FlashGet is my personal choice of software.
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Step 1:
In your browser, visit:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/justaminute.shtml
This will bring up Radio 4's JAM webpage.
Click on the "Listen Again" icon on the right hand side of the screen.
This will bring up a pop-up screen with Auntie's own media player.
You can pause the stream, as the playing of the file is not necessary.
Firefox: With your mouse hovering over the 'Play/Pause' button, right click,
then select "This Frame" then "View Frame Source".
IE: Underneath the 'Play/Pause' button, right click and select "View Source"
The source code will open up. This will be a lot of HTML code, but don't
worry.
Simply find ".ram" in the document.
This will, for example give us:
<a href="/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio4/just.ram">
This is the file that tells the software where the audio file is.
Now, paste in the full URL to the file:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio4/just.ram
A box will pop up, asking you to save the file.
Do this.
Step 2:
Open up the save .ram file in your choice of text editor.
You will see something like:
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/comedy/mon1830.ra?BBC-UID=d44619c53b848ec0dd2921eaf1c48fc27c870a9d20c0e121c2e263b39454b565&SSO2-UID=
Highlight the rtsp: through to the .ra
This is also the address you can input into your RealPlayer software to
listen to the complete file.
To download the actual file, go on to the next step:
Step 3:
Open up the download manager software.
Copy the rtsp: address into the URL of the software.
For FlashGet, you would select File -> New Download.
FlashGet will then begin to get the file and save it to a folder on your HD.
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NOTES:
In all honesty, that RTSP URL never changes.
You will have to rename each week's file after you recieve it, so it
won't over-write itself
week after week.
The file can be converted to MP3 with whatever software you may have at
hand. I don't know
of any freeware converters off of the top of my head, but I do use
"Audacity", a freeware MP3
editor once I get the file converted to remove the announcers before and
after.
Auntie Beeb puts the half-hours/hours out in blocks, so if a show runs
over, you have
to acquire both 'blocks' to get the whole program. That's why the URL
never changes week after week.
I use the same URL to acquire the ISIHAC episodes as well.