{"id":40466,"date":"2023-08-28T13:57:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T17:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=40466"},"modified":"2023-09-01T15:08:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T19:08:51","slug":"download-the-things-you-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/28\/download-the-things-you-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Download the Things You Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Birchler<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Anyway, I linked to the show’s Wikipedia page because the original episodes are no longer available to download from the official source (here’s an archived version<\/a>). Happily, a kind soul<\/a> has recently uploaded many episodes to YouTube, but that’s just lucky, and those aren’t guaranteed to be eternal either.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

This applies to other things as well. There are little internet videos from the pre-YouTube days that I think about and would love to see again, but can’t. There are versions of songs that you can’t get on streaming services. There are just some things I remember from years ago that I can’t see again, and that’s a shame.<\/p>

Things on the internet can<\/em> be forever, but you can’t assume someone else will keep them going[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wrote an app for that<\/a>, though the focus is more on saving Web pages, documents, and mail archives than media files. Now there’s lots of likely ephemeral audio and video available, and storage has advanced such that it actually is practical to store what you want to keep.<\/p>\n\n

Glenn Fleishman<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Buying two 12TB drives (and configuring them as RAID1 mirrors) reminds me that I own nearly half a million times as much storage as I did in 1990.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

I’ve been using Downcast<\/a> to download local copies of podcasts. It still has problems<\/a>, probably due to sandboxing<\/a>, if I let it accumulate more than a few months of episodes. But I don’t want to store a lot on my Mac’s internal SSD, anyway, so I periodically rsync them to an EagleFiler library on an external drive and delete them from the app.<\/p>\n

For videos and one-off audio downloads, I like Downie<\/a> and the unofficial WWDC app<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n