Lecture recordings to mp3 (1 Viewer)

[limonade]

Does anyone know how to download lecture recordings from webCT elearing as mp3s?
For a couple of my subjects they come embedded in the elearning web browser as quicktime files - so you can only listen when you're sitting at the computer. Anyone know of a way of making them into mp3s so that I can listen to them on my ipod on the train?

 

[engineering]

convert quicktime to mp3 - Google Search

But if the quicktime recordings are streamed rather than downloadable it is very very tricky to get the full quicktime file in the first place.

 

[jaimebien]

Does anyone know how to download lecture recordings from webCT elearing as mp3s?
For a couple of my subjects they come embedded in the elearning web browser as quicktime files - so you can only listen when you're sitting at the computer. Anyone know of a way of making them into mp3s so that I can listen to them on my ipod on the train?

Often, you have to click on a specific link saying something like "click to listen to file" before the window launches into the quicktime player. When you hover over that link, make sure it ends with "mp3". Instead of clicking it, just right click on the link and click on "save link as...".

Sometimes, you can also just save the mp3 file even after opening it and it's playing in quicktime. If the link of the "page" ends with "mp3", just go to file>save page as. However, sometimes the quicktime player is embeded on a page that doesn't end with "mp3" but "html" or some similar variation. In which case, you have to go to the previous page and use the first step to save.

By the way, the files are most likely mp3 in the first place. Quicktime is just the player or the program that plays them. It's not the format of the audio file.

 

[limonade]

Thanks for your responses -- jbnc's advice worked a treat.