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Post by adam31 on Oct 31, 2014 12:31:40 GMT -5
Thanks this is a good reminder, my recording is on Saturday, so I'll need to change it for next weekend. EDIT: Maybe I won't have to change it. I think if you are recording a US Station (other than Arizona or Hawaii), that station should change time also, therefore AT40 would be on at the same time, right?  |
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Post by Dale Latimer on Nov 1, 2014 21:59:32 GMT -5
^I could have sworn being told by someone at DAR (not presuming M. Robertson himself) that the DST switches are taken into account when a recording is started... dL
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Post by BrettVW on Nov 1, 2014 22:36:33 GMT -5
Also be ready for stations to start the shows an hour early as automation and music scheduliing isn't always good about the time changes. Like clockwork, WOCL always has its 7am start of AT40 the 70s at 6am the morning DST ends. Tomorrow will mark thr fourth year running if it occurs again.
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Post by Dale Latimer on Nov 2, 2014 15:22:19 GMT -5
Well, shows ya what I know... KOKZ started 80s an hour early. C'mon people... 8<
dL
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Post by mct1 on Nov 20, 2014 19:24:45 GMT -5
Just went on to dar.fm and attempted to download a show (clearing out some old shows that I haven't had a chance to listen to yet, to make room for this coming weekend's), and got a message stating the following (Note that I have a free account):
"This will download radio recordings as MP3 files. This requires a Pro account. Please upgrade at DAR.fm/upgrade. With a Pro account you can also automatically download recordings to mobile phones."
Is this a new policy? I've downloaded shows numerous times in the past and never got this message. Is there another way to download with a free account, or is it now impossible unless you purchase a pro account? The show will play fine in dar.fm's player, it just won't download.
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Post by secretman on Nov 21, 2014 10:20:35 GMT -5
Just went on to dar.fm and attempted to download a show (clearing out some old shows that I haven't had a chance to listen to yet, to make room for this coming weekend's), and got a message stating the following (Note that I have a free account): "This will download radio recordings as MP3 files. This requires a Pro account. Please upgrade at DAR.fm/upgrade. With a Pro account you can also automatically download recordings to mobile phones." The same here since November 17, 2014. Get ready for: “Login is a Pro feature”, “schedule is a Pro feature”, “listen is a Pro feature”, and so on... |
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Post by Dale Latimer on Nov 21, 2014 14:43:49 GMT -5
Just went on to dar.fm and attempted to download a show (clearing out some old shows that I haven't had a chance to listen to yet, to make room for this coming weekend's), and got a message stating the following (Note that I have a free account): "This will download radio recordings as MP3 files. This requires a Pro account. Please upgrade at DAR.fm/upgrade. With a Pro account you can also automatically download recordings to mobile phones." Is this a new policy? I've downloaded shows numerous times in the past and never got this message. Is there another way to download with a free account, or is it now impossible unless you purchase a pro account? The show will play fine in dar.fm's player, it just won't download. When you open the player and select a show that was recorded, each segment should have a down-arrow next to it in the list. That's what you click (or right-click and select 'save as') to DL them. It won't automatically start DLing... you'd have to name the segment file regardless, and very often it will come up with a mile-long .htm file you might want to change to something ending in .mp3... it takes thinking and remembering, which I happily can still do... :/ dL |
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Post by Dale Latimer on Nov 21, 2014 15:18:13 GMT -5
They used to have a link to a feed where you could download shows. About a year ago they made it "pro" only. But there was still the loophole where you could download by clicking on the down arrow next to the segment. It looks like they discovered that little trick and that now has been made "pro" only also. That would be heartbreaking, and possibly some-other-thing(s)-breaking. Part of me wants to think the arrow graphic just didn't load in your case, but you may know better than I do. Anyhow I haven't gotten email from M.Robertson saying this was the case. The FAQ list on dar.fm still refers to the arrow appearing by each segment. dL |
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Post by SFGuy on Nov 21, 2014 18:19:49 GMT -5
They used to have a link to a feed where you could download shows. About a year ago they made it "pro" only. But there was still the loophole where you could download by clicking on the down arrow next to the segment. It looks like they discovered that little trick and that now has been made "pro" only also. That would be heartbreaking, and possibly some-other-thing(s)-breaking. Part of me wants to think the arrow graphic just didn't load in your case, but you may know better than I do. Anyhow I haven't gotten email from M.Robertson saying this was the case. The FAQ list on dar.fm still refers to the arrow appearing by each segment. dL Probably didn't update the FAQ yet. I did a test on my free account and it said what mct1 posted. |
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Post by adam31 on Nov 24, 2014 15:31:01 GMT -5
I used to be able to right click on the arrow and "save target as" but I can no longer do that. Hopefully I'm doing something wrong, but it appears the loopholes are closed.
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Post by itsyspider on Nov 30, 2014 20:15:03 GMT -5
Rarely downloaded a whole show, occasionally downloaded a segment to fill a gap in my own recording. This makes the site completely useless to me.
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Post by cpastrick on Dec 14, 2014 1:02:38 GMT -5
Yes. The sad report is true. Dar now has made the download a Pro feature. I guess if you want, you can pay $60 for a year's account. Ugh.
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Post by SFGuy on Dec 14, 2014 4:45:50 GMT -5
Yes. The sad report is true. Dar now has made the download a Pro feature. I guess if you want, you can pay $60 for a year's account. Ugh. It's actually $40. To me, it's been worth it. I can record both shows at least twice each (in case a recording screws up). |
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Post by mct1 on Feb 21, 2015 22:49:26 GMT -5
Yes. The sad report is true. Dar now has made the download a Pro feature. I guess if you want, you can pay $60 for a year's account. Ugh. It's actually $40. To me, it's been worth it. I can record both shows at least twice each (in case a recording screws up). Since they were running that $40 special at the time, I upgraded as well. Then, seeing all the storage space I had, I got lazy about listening to the shows I recorded, and built up a big backlog of unlistened-to shows. Today, I tried to listen to some shows I had recorded but never listened to, from from the November-December timeline. I'm finding that almost every show has at least one segment, sometimes more than one, that won't play. If I try to listen to the segment on the dar.fm player, nothing happens. If I try to download it, I get a "file not found" error message. Like SFGuy, I usually try to record shows at least twice, if possible, in case there is an issue with one of the recordings. In many cases where I have two recordings of the same show, both recordings have this type of issue. In some instances I can't construct a complete show to listen to, because both recordings are missing the same piece of the show. I've had this "missing segment" problem with dar.fm recordings before, but not anytime recently, and never on this kind of scale. Has anyone else had similar problems recently? Is this just something that happens if you leave shows sitting on dar.fm for a lengthy period, or did dar.fm have some kind of issue at some point over the past few months that caused this? Are the missing segments simply gone, or is there any way I can recover them at this point? |
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Post by SFGuy on Feb 21, 2015 23:03:39 GMT -5
It's actually $40. To me, it's been worth it. I can record both shows at least twice each (in case a recording screws up). Since they were running that $40 special at the time, I upgraded as well. Then, seeing all the storage space I had, I got lazy about listening to the shows I recorded, and built up a big backlog of unlistened-to shows. Today, I tried to listen to some shows I had recorded but never listened to, from from the November-December timeline. I'm finding that almost every show has at least one segment, sometimes more than one, that won't play. If I try to listen to the segment on the dar.fm player, nothing happens. If I try to download it, I get a "file not found" error message. Like SFGuy, I usually try to record shows at least twice, if possible, in case there is an issue with one of the recordings. In many cases where I have two recordings of the same show, both recordings have this type of issue. In some instances I can't construct a complete show to listen to, because both recordings are missing the same piece of the show. I've had this "missing segment" problem with dar.fm recordings before, but not anytime recently, and never on this kind of scale. Has anyone else had similar problems recently? Is this just something that happens if you leave shows sitting on dar.fm for a lengthy period, or did dar.fm have some kind of issue at some point over the past few months that caused this? Are the missing segments simply gone, or is there any way I can recover them at this point? I have issues once in awhile but not often (I had one last weekend). I download the shows onto my computer within the week and listen to it that way (I like to save the shows so I also use mergemp3 to merge the segments and Audacity to take the commercials out). Yours is probably gone, though. Did you record the same time frame? Might be better to record different time frames. |
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