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I was going to write a perl script to download all these but after I discovered that the naming scheme wasn't consistent throughout every file, I gave up and installed iTunes to download everything. I then promptly removed all hundreds of megabytes of it. An advantage is the naming scheme is pretty good; nothing that a novice shell-scripter can't fix.

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I don't understand why you "removed all hundreds of megabytes of it".

At any rate, this is a simple python script to list all mp3 files in those posts (I like to use wget do do the actual downloading):

http://pastebin.com/cbhEgt6E

It uses the cool lxml library: http://codespeak.net/lxml/

(I use something similar to download all posts of a blog I want to read offline on my kindle).

I then promptly removed all hundreds of megabytes of it.

I think he was referring to Itunes.

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