EWTN MP3?

A reader writes:

Do you know if EWTN will someday provide downloads of its Audio Library in MP3 format?  The .ra format is virtually worthless to me.

Yeah, the application that plays the .ra format–RealPlayer–went Darkside on us a number of years ago. It experienced its own anti-purgatory and has been thoroughly evil ever since. I would favor Annihilationism in the case of RealPlayer rather than allowing it to continue to fester and bubble and blaspheme on the Internet.

That being said, you’re in luck!

EWTN ALREADY HAS ITS SHOWS AVAILABLE IN MP3 FOR DOWNLOAD.

They even have podcasts set up.

This applies, at least, to the shows that they produce themselves. Independently-produced shows like Catholic Answers Live are handled by their producers.

In the case of Catholic Answers Live, WE ALREADY HAVE MP3S FOR DOWNLOAD, but we don’t quite have the podcasting feature set up yet. But we hope to soon.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

12 thoughts on “EWTN MP3?”

  1. Thanks for the reminder, Jimmy! There are about 6-8 shows from January alone I wanna download & have been forgetting to do so. Wow, it’s amazing the content you folks have on CAL now! I especially like how 2 hours really allows the show to focus on one topic for the whole afternoon & get different perspectives from 2 guests on the same, or mostly the same, topic. Great stuff!
    But it also means there’s twice as much to catch up on! 😉

  4. I can vouch for the evilness of the RealPlayer format. I find high-speed streams in that format to be choppy at best, while Quicktime and Windows Media usually play smoothly. (My only problem with QT is that sometimes my browser hangs while trying to load the plugin.)

  5. …I would revise my prior statement to say, RP video is *often* choppy; ISTM the higher the speed the worse it gets.

  7. While I was on the journey into the Catholic Church, I downloaded hundreds (literally) of .ra files from Catholic Answers, EWTN and other sources. There are FREE programs that will convert it into an MP3 file. I listen in my car and my iPod all the time. I use “dBpower AMP Music Converter.” It works like a charm.

Comments are closed.