Jennifer Bergland (Bryan ISD) recently recorded a podcast of Robert Scott (shown above), Commissioner of Education for Texas. He spoke at the 2008 Textbook Coordinator’s Conference in Austin, Texas.
I haven’t listened to it yet, but had the opportunity to convert it from m4a format to mp3 for listening in my iRiver T10 mp3 player.
You can find Jennifer’s original here:
and the MP3 version here:
On a technical note, on UbuntuLinux, I took these steps to get the m4a file:
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Viewed the source code to find the exact address of the m4a file
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Used this command to download it:
wget http://fc.bryanisd.org/~bergland/FOV1-0005D8FE/S0604501D-0604501D.0/Robert%20Scott%2012-9-2008.m4a -
Used this command to convert it to MP3:
ffmpeg -i *.m4a robertscott.mp3 -
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