How to deal with Flash Audio?

I adulation spoken-word audio. I've been alert to seminars, lectures, and books on band for years.

I adulation downloadable audio. Missed that teleseminar you active up for? Aloof download the MP3 (or Real Media, or Windows Media, or QuickTime) book and it's about as acceptable as actuality there--maybe better.

But I absolutely animosity alive audio of the affectionate you can't download, and I acquisition the fresh trend to use Macromedia Flash to accommodate audio clips online decidedly irritating.

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Why? Because I don't appetite to accept to sit in advanced of my computer awning to accept to something. The alone time I ability appetite to do that would be if I were demography notes, or if the recording were a set of instructions on how to do article with a computer program. Back I'm at my computer, I'm usually active accomplishing article that requires absorption (like writing).

I appetite to do my alert back I'm abroad from my computer and accomplishing article that occupies my easily but not my abounding attention. In my case, that's primarily back I'm active and back I'm cooking. And while I could apparently prop my laptop on the commuter bench while I drive, I can't (yet, anyway) get a affiliation to the Internet while activity 65 afar an hour. Besides, the car stereo has abundant more good speakers than the laptop does.

The accomplished point of podcasting, afterwards all, is to acquiesce bodies to download and accept at their leisure, the aforementioned way RSS account aggregators let you aggregate blog account and added account at your own convenience. These streaming-only audio clips (.ram as able-bodied as Flash) don't accord you that option. And that snarks me off.

And yes, I do apprehend that bodies appetite to assure their bookish acreage and that's one acumen they use non-downloadable alive audio. I account that. But I don't appetite to advertise or contrarily redistribute their material. I aloof appetite to accept to it on my time. To users of alive audio I affectation the question: would you rather I aloof didn't listen? Would you absolutely adopt that I aloof absence your business bulletin altogether?

Because that's what was accident afore I anticipation of a way about the Flash barrier.

In May I fabricated one of my best investments of 2005 and bought a $10 mini-stereo audio cable. I bung one end into the laptop's headphone atrium and one end into the cassette recorder's microphone port. Or I bung the added end of the cable into the microphone anchorage on the laptop and almanac it assimilate my computer to comedy on my fresh MP3 player. (My accepted adopted recordingcomputer application is the freeware affairs Audacity, accessible at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/ in versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux.)

It works like a charm. I now accept admission to all kinds of things I never would accept listened to before, all acknowledgment to a simple cable.

Now all I charge is one of those car stereos with an MP3 amateur congenital in.