You’ve been asking for it, and we’ve been preparing it. The 500 lesson torrent file is now ready for download. We hope you downloaders have reasonably large hard drives, because this baby is bursting with 3.1 GB of pedagogical pleasure. In it you will find:
- 500 ChinesePod podcast lessons of all levels, spanning our entire history
- An index of all lessons, as well as a separate index to help you match the old names to the new names
- Filenames follow the new naming system, which makes them a snap to sort by level
To download a torrent file, you need a BitTorrent client. (I personally prefer BitComet, but Azureus is supposed to be pretty good as well.)
After your BitTorrent client is installed, your system should recognize the torrent filetype. Click on the link below and open the file with your BitTorrent client. That will get the download started.
ChinesePod 500 Lesson Torrent (3.1 GB)
Enjoy!
Thanks a lot for this easy way to download.
But - by downloading the standard way there are still some resources missing or defect. When will this be fixed?
hanyu_xuesheng,
We have regenerated all the defective/missing files. Those are the ones we used for the BT file. We also need to upload them all to the S3 server.
The thing is, while S3 is quite fast for our American users, it is unfortunately quite slow for us. It takes quite a long time for us to re-upload all those files (dialogues, show in 32, 64, 128). We have begun the process, but it won’t be completely finished until sometime in May. (We’re all about to go on a week-long May holiday, and we’ve been frantically uploading all the files for that week’s new episodes rather than uploading the regenerated old MP3s.)
-John
No need for a torrent-only client, the downloader FlashGet handles torrent files perfectly …
John,
All this, plus internal rhyme and some assonance thrown in, too
“because this baby is bursting with 3.1 GB of pedagogical pleasure”
This is a pedagogical first, but next time try to do it in iambic
pentameter.
Ken
This will be a great package.
But I keep getting the Not Found message from the server …
Am I the only one ?
Thierry
Any chance of a dialogue only download like this?
3.1 GB ?
真是BT啊
kmk: Did you mean 变态? That would probably be a bit over the top…
Everytime I click on the link, I get the page “Not Found
The requested URL /chinesepod001-500.torrent was not found on this server.” The address that it is trying to access is: http://221.130.189.46/chinesepod001-500.torrent
I’m in Beijing and using Firefox under Mac OSX.
I keep getting a ‘file not found’ on the url you just posted. Am I the only one ? Is it overloaded ?
这个中文学习的网站可真不错哦！
I personally recommend uTorrent (http://www.utorrent.com/).
I note to less tech-savy users: most sane bit-torrent clients will allow you to selectively download files from the torrent. In English, you do not need to download all 500 lessons; you can selectively choose to download the lessons you do not have, and exclude the rest.
Henning: Yes I tried to practice my new vocab.
This BT (变态 not BitTorrent) is so easy to use and memorize that I may rely too heavily on it.
http://forum.chinesepod.com/viewtopic.php?t=1639
I’m glad to see you’ll again be offering a torrent. However, the link you listed doesn’t appear to work; it results in a 404.
Hi, Shaun
I must agree.
Hopefully it´s fixed after next week is it?
excuter
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the way is the goal
Hmmm, it’s strange that you’re getting a 404… I downloaded the torrent using that same link, and my computer is uploading it to other people now. Is it working for other people too? Any other 404s?
I get 404 also.
John, if you have a copy of the torrent file would you be willing to post it temporarily? At least until the above link gets fixed.
I am also getting a 404.
Hi John,
I have been unable to download it so far. I intalled BitComet for the purpose. When I try, BitComet comes back with: “Torrent file download failed.”
Alaric
More problems here too. Downloading those Torrent programs comes at some risk. The BitComet had a nasty virus embedded in it. Got past my Norton security and ZoneAlarm Firewall without any problem. My computer is toast. Thanks BitComet for taking a byte out of my system !
I too get the 404. Please check the link!
Use uTorrent (http://www.utorrent.com/). It works great.
it is clearly not a matter of software. Getting a 404 means file does not exist for us. But how can it works for some of us and not some others ? Can it be a matter of location ?
To be honest, I don’t really fully understand how one hosts a torrent file. The tech team at the office handled that. It worked Monday afternoon, when I used it to download the torrent file myself, so I know the link is correct. Then this blog post went up. Now we are all on vacation.
Sorry for the inconvenience. As Thierry says, it should not be a software issue. It could possible be a regional issue, or maybe a hosting issue. We’ll fix it as soon as we can.
-John
Hi John-
Since the staffing is light this week, I think we can all be patient for it. At 3.1 GB, it’s better to get it right the first time, than to have everyone download a different 3 GB set later.
Just for the record, I live in Spain and also get a 404 message. However, I really appreciate your effort. Thank you for the release. I hope to enjoy it in some days!.
Since the torrent file is just a tiny file with very few information about the file hosting location and things like that, if someone got access to the “.torrent” file, maybe she/he can put it somewhere else, more accessible and publish the link, then just have to hope the 3Gb file is not hosting in the same condition…
For the record, I’m trying to access from France.
But maybe the best is to wait for people to be back from vacation. Anyway, enjoy vacation ! You’re doing a great job here.
When clicking on John’s above link for the torrent, the ensuing message says “Page cannot be found”.
To be sure, I used that link to initiate the download, so far I’ve managed to download 64% (over 2 giga). During the first two days, the download speed was at around 100 kb/s, but then trickled down to between 1-5 kb/s … that way it’s going to be a while …
MISERY - Loves company.
I have to say I was quite happy to read John’s blurb “The thing is, while S3 is quite fast for our American users, it is unfortunately quite slow for us. It takes quite a long time for us to re-upload all those files”.
I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one (in China) with this burr under my saddle. I had beginnings of serious Shanghai/Beijing/HK broadband speed envy.
Haha…now people OUTSIDE of China can join in the misery…muhahaha. From what people have been describing, there is nothing wrong with the ‘hosting’ of the torrent file by the Cpod computer. It’s a bandwidth issue across the oceans.
The ‘404′ errors reflect network drops. Simply put, it’s the holidays here in China and depending on when people try to access the China net, there will be lack of access as the internet here is flooded by gamers on holiday in the internet bars and at home surfing the net.
I’m sure everything will ‘clear’ up on the Tuesday after the holidays. Monday’s everyone’s back at work and it will still be a bandwidth intensive day.
GEEK INFO:
221.130.189.46
is hosted in the Asia net, and I bet is some Cpod staff member’s computer in the factory.
*I’m calling out the geeks there and saying it was stupid to host a torrent file on an Asia-located box when most leaches will be from outside the area. Put it on the Amazon s3 boxes. Duh!!!
(Yah, I know, after a while there will be enough ‘hosts’ that it shouldn’t matter, but until then.)
Chinesepod IP in the USA
IP Address: 64.78.165.98
IP Location: United States
Website Status: active
Lantian - I can further increase your joy (Schadenfreude): download has come to a complete standstill, after having reached 82% (2.7 giga; my yesterday’s indication was wrong), however, most of it is still unusable since more than half of the downloaded files have only been partially downloaded.
I get a 404 when I try to download the .torrent file. It’s not a problem of software, since the .torrent is being downloaded via browser and not via BT. Anyway, I use BitComet, a chinese software fot BT which is able, using a cache, to protect your hard disk from excessively stressing activity during the download. You can find the client at:
http://www.bitcomet.com/
When is the file going to be available, approximately? Thank you for your time and efforts
Fabio
Could somebody who managed to download the chinesepod001-500.torrent file post it somewhere? Thanks!
I’m getting the 404 here in Beijing as well, so I think it’s probably a technical problem with the link to the main torrent rather than an issue of trans-Pacific bandwidth.
Hi Trevelyan,
SHARED PAIN -I’m on the net pretty much too much all the time here and over these holidays the net in China hasn’t been too good. Simply too many people. I still think it’s a bandwidth problem, but for you it’s between Beijing and Shanghai! (Remember John himself did a test download)
FLASH HIT - One other bandwidth problem I haven’t heard people mention is the Flash expansion sentences. Pretty much 9/10 times now, my browser locks up when I go to the Expansion or even Vocabulary tab as the browser attempts to connect and transfer from AmazonS3…
QUAKE - I’m kinda reminiscing over the quake days when there was an alt In-China server source, blistering fast for me. If Cpod could put up a simple page with content uploads…
There seems to be more than just one problem, sometimes it takes ages for a page to open, sometimes the opening page just says “Server problem …”
Such as this one, gotten a couple of minutes ago …
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@chinesepod.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Apache/2.0.54 Server at blogs.chinesepod.com Port 80
I finally got a copy of the torrent file to download. I temporarily posted a copy at http://xiaoniu.org/files/chinesepod001-500.torrent
It won’t help you much though. The tracker is also in Shanghai so starting the download may not be possible or may take a really, really long time (for the same reason why the torrent file cannot be downloaded). I’ve already waited over 40 minutes and the download still hasn’t started.
Lantian, I believe you called this one right.
At the meanwhile link is correct, but there are no seeds. Availability is 0% for last 24h
Same here. No seeds
Well, if you have a need for lots of storage that is much safer than the standard external USB drive and is dead easy to expand, you could look at Data Robotic’s Drobo. That’s the product I have been working on for these last twelve months. Current max storage possible is 3TB (with the latest 1TB drives).
However, I guess that a few GB is not going to stress most people these days. A few TB might.
I have a question..
was going to look at bittorents through the link above to wikipedia. Then I realized something I have always run into in China.. YOU CANNOT ACCESS WIKIPEDIA HERE. I can’t be the only one who notices this, as I have never been able to access it on any computer I have used in China.
I guess China is still up to its old censorship ways.. and in a BIG way here Wikipedia being one of the best sources, if not the best source, to learn about just anything on the Web.. or am I missing something here and am the only one who can’t see the site in China. After all Chinesepod is linking to it on this very page.
If it is censored though, I am really surprised people don’t raise more of an uproar about it, there should be hundreds of blogs and website solely about this issue protesting such blatant short sidedness by the government, which would be down right wrong. If this is why Wikipedia cannot be accessed here, though I love China it really rubs into me how far this country and its people still have to go in shaking off the insanity and residue left over by the founders of CCP. Hopefully I am mistaken as the reason Wikipedia cannot be used here.
second question..
I know you guys said if you are in China its slow.. but it seems no matter what bittorrent client I use to try and download this slow is equal to 0.0 kb/s here? maybe a 0.1 now and then.. looks like 3 gigs will be about 300 years?
“Seed it, just seed it…” *break dances*
(Anyone who works in America able to get the 3.1 gig file and share it with us, even though I’m over in China?)
Oh and Tim, yeah, Wikipedia’s been blocked here in China pretty much forever, as far as I can tell. In S China (Shenzhen area) at least. Sucks huh? Damned Great Firewall of China….
This is just a guess, but the story of the torrent could be something like this:
1. Original torrent posted. People download.
2. Somebody/something deletes the .torrent file. That’s all the 404s people complained about.
3. Somebody recreates torrent file from scratch, probably using different torrent tracker as well. The link to torrent file works again, but there is no seed on this separate torrent (i.e. no download).
So if I’m right, there are two separate torrents, the first one at this time likely full of seeders and the second one that never had any data (plus the tracker was down d`earlier today).
Fortunately, the holidays in China should be over tomorrow, so the waiting for the lesson mp3s will end soon
I want it all, i want it all. Well, that’s the human instinct. Me very greedy too. Mmmhh, a huge bittorrent file. ( I rememeber in the past I made copies of so many software manuals: only used less than 5 % of it). I can only do one lesson at the same time.. I don’t want to spoil my time with those Torrent things. (maybe only to see how those things work).
When I see interesting lesson, then I download that, one by one: e.g. 初级96 Aesop’s Fables: The Tortoise and the Hare. For me a wise lesson:
一步一步爬
Shaun,
Thanks for posting a link the torrent file. The download from the blog was estimated at more than a day to download.
I got the whole 3.1 GB file in less than 15 hours, and I’m in China, so don’t give up hope.
Yet I am wondering why I don’t see more people in the peer list that have 100% of the file. I have seen people close to 100% and then they disappear. Are you guys not keeping the file in your torrent program? Or does it not show me people who have 100% now since I have 100%? Either way, it really doesn’t help others if you don’t leave your torrent program running and the ChinesePod file for uploading.
Currently I’m the only one online who has all the parts, so everyone must rely on me. I will keep my computer on for two more days, but after that I move to a new apartment and will be without a phone or broadband line.
If you have the file, seed it!
Rich
I am using Azureus. It claims there are 12 seeds and 9 peers, 5 of which are connected to me. The Swarm Average Speed is 120kB/s. Not bad! :^)
There is an Easter Egg in the download. Has anyone else found it?
No lyrics in the MP3s :^( (Well, two do, but that is probably a mistake).
Thanks for sharing
I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links:
Hi could someone post the torrent address here? Thanks
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Hey…
Why is the 500 lessons torrent not availible anymore? Will it be?
Thanx
/Klas