Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Downloading Hebrew Bible audio files to your iOS device

My Hebrew Bible iOS app streams Hebrew audio of the Bible books from the Mechon Mamre web site; however, people can sometimes have issues accessing the audio files if they have no Internet connectivity or the Mechon Mamre site is unavailable for some reason (the audio files are located here: https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/ptmp3prq.htm#mp3). Therefore, you may want to download the audio to your device instead of accessing it from the Mechon Mamre web site as a backup measure (it's also nice to have the audio files locally as this means that you're not dependent on having Internet access to listen to the audio). In order to download the audio files onto a Mac device, simply right-click with your mouse and select "Save Link As..." to download the audio file to your Mac (don't change the name of the audio file). Then, attach your iphone (or other iOS device) to your Mac, open 2 Finder windows and copy the audio file from the Downloads directory on your Mac to the HebrewBible directory on your iOS device. This will give you a "local" copy of the audio so that it will not be necessary to have your iOS device connected to the Internet in order to play the audio. The screenshot below shows an example of this with the first 3 audio chapters of Genesis downloaded in the left Finder window (t0101.mp3 - t0103.mp3) and these have been "dragged over" into the HebrewBible directory on my Zeev iPhone XS in the right Finder window.

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