Hi All,

I'm using Smart.fm's Core2000 course and enjoying it. Right now I can only get it to generate podcasts of my recent reviews, which are in bits and pieces. For the lists I know well I'd like to get the entirety into one podcast. Does anyone know about how to get that done? Am I missing something? Is there an easy ripping method? Thanks!

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Eh? SmartFM can generate podcasts? How does it work? What does it sound like?

See the audio lesson studio thread. I think that's what you're looking for.

travis Wrote:See the audio lesson studio thread. I think that's what you're looking for.

Ah, thanks for the link. I'll look into this. It seems rather involved but very useful. My simplistic hopes were that there was some option I was missing from smart.fm that would just... reduce an entire Core2000 list into a single podcast, as opposed to reducing your most recent study item into a single podcast. The long solution is to review an entire 200 items in one go.... but that seems kind of extreme

Cheers

kodorakun Wrote:

travis Wrote:See the audio lesson studio thread. I think that's what you're looking for.

Ah, thanks for the link. I'll look into this. It seems rather involved but very useful. My simplistic hopes were that there was some option I was missing from smart.fm that would just... reduce an entire Core2000 list into a single podcast, as opposed to reducing your most recent study item into a single podcast. The long solution is to review an entire 200 items in one go.... but that seems kind of extreme

Cheers

By podcast do you really mean mp3 in this case?
i.e. you want to take all the audio sentences from smart.fm and mash them up into one big "song" so you can listen to them all together?

You can do that (see below) but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it.
One of the points behind smart.fm is that it acts like an SRS (Spaced Repitition System), so you review stuff as and when you need to. You shouldn't be reviewing every sentence at the same time.
If you just want to stick them all on your ipod to have on occasionally, then that's okay.
In that case, why not just put all the files on individually?

Anyway, if you do want to join all the sentences, a simple way would be
- import your lists into Anki using the "Smart.FM - Improved Importing" plugin (File -> Download -> Shared Plugin). This will put all the audio in a "your deck name.media" folder whereever you save your deck.
- join all the files together (not sure what tool to use, perhaps the one above).
The downside to this method is the filenames will all be cryptic, but if you just want one big file then that doesn't matter.

Hope that helps.

Avparker,

I agree with your comments and the point of it is that after you've completed a Core list and know it pretty well, it's kind of unnecessary to go through the smart.fm review process. It's still fast and all, but you basically have the sentences memorized and know how to spell etc. With just -hearing- the sentences you can reduce reviewing 200 items into a few minutes. I can be like "ah, I haven't looked at Core2000 list 3 in a week or two, I'll just listen to that now" and see if there are any words I don't remember to look up in more detail.

This was really just an idea, nothing I'm terribly committed too.

Thanks for the comments though.