iPadio is shutting down

Important Notice!

Dear friends, loyal broadcasters, educators, explorers, adventurers, fund-raisers, commentators, reporters and all round great people.
Sadly, ipadio will soon be shutting down :(. As a free service that has never wanted to spoil your fun with adverts there is only so long we can keep it going and the time has come for us to say farewell.
We are immensely proud of all the great things you, our community, have done with the technology we created and our lives are richer for sharing in all your stories. So a huge thank you to you all!
We are now closed to new registrations but the broadcasting platform, the apps and the management dashboard will remain up and working until the 2nd April 2019.
So sorry we can't continue to support all your fascinating and inspiring channels.
Thanks Again & Goodbye
The ipadio Team


This is the email I tried to send to iPadio:

I'm really sorry you're closing down

Hi,

I discovered by chance today that you are closing down and wanted to say how much I have enjoyed using ipadio over the years and how significant it has been to me as a teacher.

Sadly, I no longer teach, but I have continued to use ipadio in my studies of Catalan.

I am keen to download all my own recordings and even the many recordings made by my students and have made a small start, but I am worried that the servers may close down before I’ve had the chance to retrieve all my (and my students` recordings.

Have you thought about a tool to enable users to export their recording? I know posterous provided one.

I will delay telling my ex-students to download any of their recording they wish to keep until I hear from you in the hope that I will be able to offer them a solution to make downloading easier.

I will have to add a comment to all my pieces about using ipadio, saying that it is closing down.

Sadly, there is no alternative app that comes near to ipadio:

60 minute limit per recording

No limit to total number or length of recordings

Brilliant integration into blog platforms like Blogger, WordPress, Facebook, etc

I, for one, will be very sad to see the end of ipadio. It is the end of an era for me.

Chris Fry

Barcelona

I got "Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender" in reply

Downloading recordings

In fact I have been able to download all my own recordings and many of my students' recordings, which I have always thought would make an interesting research project into how students' language developed over one year, or in some cases two.

I have written up instructions for my students about how to do this with three sections:

How to save your ipadio recordings:

-        Part 1 – How to save the last 60 recordings using iTunes

-        Part 2 – How to save your earlier recordings using iPadio

-        Part 3 – What if you can’t remember your password for iPadio

I used iTunes on my Windows computer and the Channel RSS/iTunes feed for my ipadio account. http://www.ipadio.com/channels/M35Mde2_6-cCYzsX5N6j7Q/rss

Unfortunately, this feed only lists the 60 most recent recordings and I have made more than twice that number in the last three years. So, I had to download the earlier recordings manually.

Part 1 – How to save the last 60 recordings using iTunes

You will need to install iTunes if you haven’t already got it on your computer.

I am using version 12.9.4.102

I subscribed to a podcast:

and pasted in the the Channel RSS/iTunes feed for my ipadio account. http://www.ipadio.com/channels/M35Mde2_6-cCYzsX5N6j7Q/rss

To see the podcast (your recordings on iPadio) you will have to edit the library

and add Podcasts

Choose Podcasts

Then right-click on the Podcast:

and clicked on Podcast Settings

Make sure the box looks like this:

and click ‘Done’

Click on the first episode (recording) and then select all (Control + A). Then, choose save episodes.

Then when you look at the podcast you will see “Saved”, as well as My Episodes and Feed

Now you should have the last sixty recordings you made on iPadio

Part 2 – How to save your earlier recordings using iPadio

You need to log in to ipadio and go to page 7 of your broadcasts as the first six pages show the last 60 recordings (10 per page)

To download each recording manually giving it the same title you need to copy the title and then right-click on the download icon:

Choose Save Target as, and paste in the title before the filename, like this:

Making sure it goes into the same place as your other recordings saved by iTunes. In my case, E:\Users\Chris\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Podcasts\Canal Catalàde Chris Fry

Now repeat this 100 times!

Part 3 – What if you can’t remember your password for iPadio

If you can’t remember your password, you won’t be able to change it as iPadio is closing down. There is a solution as long as you remember your ipadio Channel Homepage (e.g. http://www.ipadio.com/channels/ChrisFry/ ). I can tell you what yours is, if you don’t remember.

I used the Chrome internet browser and an extension called “Bulk Media Downloader”.

Once you have installed the Chrome extension, you will see the icon on the right.

Go to your Channel Homepage and click on this icon and mark the options like this:

Then reload your Channel Homepage:

Go back to the Bulk Media Downloader and you should see 10 *.mp3 files:

Click on ‘Pause’. You can un-click any files like the last one, and then download the files one by one.

You will have to move them from ‘Downloads’ to a folder you create.

Then, click on Clear List, then Resume:

And go back to your homepage and click on ‘2’. Bulk Media Downloader will prepare the ten files of that page for download. (You won’t need to reload the page.)

You will have to repeat this process for each page of recordings you made. For some people this will be 25 pages!