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cforput
May 7th, 2010, 05:26 PM
There is a web site www.gutenberg.org that has fully LEGAL e-books and audio books you can download. My problem is that the audio books are broken up into multiple MP3 files and I don't want to sit and download a bunch of files. If you go here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26219/mp3/

You will see that there are 27 MP3 files for this book. I have tried using some download manager programs such as GWget or MultiGet but I'm not sure if they are the right thing to use. I also tried FileZilla but can't get connected to the site.

Can someone give me help here. What program to use and how to use the program. I found that the documentation for MultiGet didn't help.

YuiDaoren
May 7th, 2010, 05:33 PM
If you use firefox, the DownThemAll add-on does a fab job.

cforput
May 7th, 2010, 05:41 PM
I tried Download Them All as well but couldn't figure it out. Could you send me some directions?

kwacka
May 7th, 2010, 07:08 PM
See: An exaustive guide on how to use dTa. (http://www.downthemall.net/howto/help/)

nothingspecial
May 7th, 2010, 07:16 PM
Or



wget -r -l1 -A.mp3 http://address/of/ebook/page

wget is the download manager

-r means get everything

-l1 means only on this page (if you used -r without -l1 it would download the entire website :shock:)

-A means all files of a type, so -A.mp3 means all mp3 files

lastly you just need the address of the page.

***EDIT

I`ve just checked the wget man page and although I always understood -A to mean all, it actually means accept(files of this type) so you could -A.mp3,.jpg and get all the jpgs on the page too.

This works in conjunction with -R which means reject, so specifying -R.mp3 would download everything on the web page except for mp3s.

***EDIT