We encourage you to try test podcasts of general conference and give us your feedback. The audio link is http://feeds.lds.org/ldsgccomplete_eng and the video is http://feeds.lds.org/ldsgccomplete_eng_mp4.
You can also subscribe via iTunes by clicking Advanced > Subscribe to Podcast in the iTunes window, then enter the Web URLs above. If this test is successful, we hope to begin providing podcasts to the public by next conference, as well as additional RSS feeds.
You may also be interested to look at ScriptureCast.net which is a site created by a member that allows people to create custom podcasts of the scriptures. It has been recently updated to include the October General Conference as one of the sources. At the site, you can create a podcast which will feed you General Conference talks at a rate you specify. You can, for example, review one talk per week, or listen to talks at a rate which will have you finish by the next General Conference. If you like this functionality, please submit feedback on the site, and also leave a comment here.
Wonderful!
As you may know, during conference I have been linking to the Podcast of General Conference available through KSL.com on my blog (see my post here), . However, the KSL Podcast is poorly maintained. This past conference the podcast worked for the Saturday Sessions, but the RSS xml never added the Sunday sessions. I was able to guess the mp3 filenames based on the naming convention and linked to them from my blog following each session, but it really doesn’t make any sense to offer a podcast that omits part of the expected information.
I have subscribed to both the new Podcasts you link here from lds.org, and am really excited that it is split out by individual talk, like the archives, instead of by session like the KSL feed.
However, one advantage of the KSL feed is that it posts so soon after the session ends, often before the next session even begins.
Question: How soon after the talks are given will the podcast update? It would be great if it was as fast as the KSL feed.
The church sure is good at adopting new technologies!
It’s great the Church is using RSS to push the content out to us. I’ve already downloaded the mp3 files from the Broadcast section of the website so RSS is too late for me. This isn’t criticism, just my opinion, that the RSS feeds should have been made public *before* conference so people could use them.
This is fantastic.
For next Conference, it might be nice if the feed could display one talk per day or per week. Besides the fact that some podcatchers won’t download all the enclosures at once, this would allow someone to listen to the talks at a rationed pace. One option might be FeedCycle, which can apparently “serialize” the podcasts over time.
Thank you very much for linking to these things and explaining what’s available. I’ll be checking these out.
Just a question, the Quicktime MP4 files, do those files syndicate well in video podcasts?
Excellent! I would definitely be interested in a serialized function, such as one talk per week, although I don’t mind the way it is now.
Still…no priesthood session audio…oh well.
I get the following error on one of the podcasts.
http://www.lib.byu.edu/images/SpencerJCondie.png
rmiller asks about sending feeds out at a “rational pace” scripturecast.net does a great job of that. I have had a goal every conference of reviewing the materials, but I rarely finish. I set up a scripturecast of conference to review everything in a month and it comes out to about one talk per day – sent to me by RSS. I’m loving it.
I’m also recommending it to our young men who have been challenged to finish the Book of Mormon by a certain date.
I suspect the answer involves copyrights in some way, but would it be possible to add the musical numbers to the podcast as well? Those can often be just as inspiring as the talks.
I. love. you. guys. I’ve wanted a video podcast of conference for what seems like forever. You have made my year!
I notice that, in the Feedburner feed, each audio podcast has a Creative Commons license associated with it. Is this a Feedburner glitch, or are the General Conference podcasts really licensed CC By-NC-ND? Did the folks at Intellectual Reserve approve this? This is incredible, forward-thinking news if it is true! Many, many lives will be blessed once members know they are free to copy and share copies of these podcasts with their friends and family.
I also notice the CC license link is absent from the video podcast… so maybe this is just a glitch and I’ve allowed myself to get excited for no good reason. =)
Sorry, the Creative Commons license was incorrect and we’ve now corrected it to the standard copyright notice.
We are working with the intellectual property folks to determine if we can use one of the Creative Commons licenses in the future.