embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4609 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek
| Message 9 of 12 14 August 2012 at 3:17pm | IP Logged |
On Chrome, the extension that downloads all files on a webpage is called "Download
Master." I've downloaded all files on a page from the FSI site in less than a minute.
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Tropi Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 5430 days ago 67 posts - 87 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin
| Message 10 of 12 14 August 2012 at 4:38pm | IP Logged |
There are also some torrents arround, like on the pirate bay: http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/4950600/FSI_Mandarin_Chinese_ (Complete_Course)
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NickJS Senior Member United Kingdom flickr.com/photos/sg Joined 4958 days ago 264 posts - 334 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese
| Message 11 of 12 14 August 2012 at 4:41pm | IP Logged |
Rob Tickner wrote:
There is a Mozilla Firefox extension called something like "Down them all" which will
allow you to download all the files in one go, I'd look into that. |
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Thats the one I used, I managed to get all of them within about 1 hour.
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yeahyoyo Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 5175 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2
| Message 12 of 12 07 August 2013 at 8:35pm | IP Logged |
I have very slow mobile connection, but I got all the following way.
For slow connections:
Because the PDF/MF3-files are too generous with their encodings making each file larger than necessary, an online converter can shrink the size to load (one-by-one).
- OPUS does best at 16 kbps to 24 kbps, 48000 Mhz, mono.
- DJVU also shrinks the size of PDFs.
A Google search will bring at least one service for each. Of course, if the hosters would convert all in a batch, it would be better, but they haven't managed to convert it to more efficient *.OGG Vorbis and *.M4A in the last five years, so *they* are not likely make it to *.OPUS anytime soon.
I've compared the quality and can't even complain at super-low 12 kbps (you play *.opus with any Firefox downloaded after Decembfp 2012---yes, the browser---VLC after December 2012, foobar2000 and any ROCKBOXed player since March 2013, you read djvu-files with Windjview).
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