This Easter weekend, April 3th and 4th, 2010, we’ve been enjoying the annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Every Conference I try to post links to MP3 audio of the sermons of the modern Apostles and Prophets of Jesus Christ as well as other Internet resources as they become available.
Also, try out the Beta of the church’s new General Conference page:
This weekend, October 3rd and 4th 2009, we are participating once again in the semi-annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where we listen to discourses by modern Apostles and Prophets of Jesus Christ. Every Conference I try to post links to MP3 audio and other Internet resources as they become available.
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I don’t know if this is a temporary error or a permanent shift in policy, but the audio mp3 and video mp4 files of the Priesthood Sessions of General Conference are now available on the conference archive pages of the official church website:
Last fall I broke the news that the church was considering allowing members to watch the Priesthood Session live this year by using the planned LDS Account login functionality. The LDS Account system was finalized and released earlier this year and rolled out to a number of church websites.
Making the audio and video available after the Conference Report Ensign magazine has been publish may represent a new policy for Priesthood session media.
We’ll see if the church makes an official statement.
(Hat tip to reader David S for the tip)
If you have been around blogs much, you know that sometimes it is in the comments that the most interesting revelations are made.
Take for instance this tidbit from the comments section of the LDS Media Talk blog, to my knowledge not revealed anywhere else, from Larry Richman, who is the Director of the Internet Coordination Group for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:
Since the priesthood session is a closed meeting, the Church does not provide the audio and video of the meeting to the general public on LDS.org. Next year, when we will provide the ability for you to log in and we can verify that you are a member, or a priesthood holder, we expect to be able to provide the priesthood session online.
The unavailability of the audio and video of the Priesthood Session of conference on the church’s website has been a topic for speculation for a long time among many members. I have no interest in questioning the Brethern as to why. To me it feels right even if I don’t fully comprehend why. I support them in their policy of limiting access to the session.
That said, this news is very exciting. The ability for Priesthood holders in the church to log in to the church website and watch or listen to the Priesthood Session on demand (presumably using the same streaming technology from Move Networks that is being used for the other sessions of conference), will be a great benefit for priesthood holders throughout the world who have access to the internet, but are far from locations to which the session is broadcast live.
Whether this new functionality will include both live-streaming and on demand archives, or merely one or the other, is not clear.
The ground work for the login functionality has already been laid with the LDS Account functionality that is currently being used to filter participation on Church-sponsored open source projects at the new LDSTech Wiki, which requires and LDS Account to contribute to the project.
The wiki explains:
Having an LDS Account is not the same as having a login to the Local Unit Web Sites. Please follow the LDS Account link to get your account. LDS Account is the new unified authentication being deployed to all applications at the Church.
To register for an LDS Account you have to know your membership record number and the date of your confirmation. Your account will then be tied to your membership record.
An LDS Account is already required to participate in a number of web-based, official LDS resources, and it will likely be through this mechanism that the Priesthood Session access will be granted.
Of course, the use of LDS Account is just speculation on my part. We will see as more information becomes available.
This weekend is the semi-annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Every Conference I post links to MP3 audio and other Internet resources as they become available.
[Looking for the April 2009 Conference, go here]
[Looking for the October 2009 Conference, go here]
MP3 Audio
These are links to the earliest available audio I can find. I will post them as soon as the become available. They will be replaced by links to the official MP3s at the church website as they are posted.
Saturday Morning Session
Saturday Afternoon Session
Sunday Morning Session
Sunday Afternoon Session
Streaming Video
Live Video, streamed over the Internet, as well as archived recordings of completed sessions is available on demand through BYU and KSL. We have watched the conference through BYU.tv several years in a row now and love it. Read more »
[Looking for October 2008 General Conference? Go here.]
[Looking for April 2009 General Conference, go here.]
[Looking for the October 2009 Conference, go here]
This weekend we are holding the annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Every year I try to post links to MP3 audio and other Internet resources as they become available. This conference will include the sustaining of Thomas S. Monson as the President of the High Priesthood and Prophet.
MP3 Audio
These are links to the earliest available audio I can find. They will be replaced by links to the MP3s at the church website as they are posted.
Saturday Morning Session
Entire Session
Saturday Afternoon Session
Presented by Robert W. Cantwell
Presented by F. Michael Watson
Sunday Morning Session
Sunday Afternoon Session
Elder Dennis B. Neuenschwander
Streaming Video
Live Video, streamed over the Internet, as well as archived recordings of completed sessions is available on demand through BYU and KSL. We have been watching conference through BYU.tv for several years now and love it. The video player only works on Windows or Mac OS X (Sorry Linux Users!). This year KSL appears to be using the same player as BYU.tv, so they may be actually the same source. Also, the church is officially providing a Video Podcast for the first time this year (see the podcast section below).
The LDS Church is now offering official audio and video Podcasts of general conference! Now you can receive individual talks in your feedreader, iTunes, or podcatcher (I use Google Reader).
Official Audio Feed
Official Video Feed
During recent sessions of conference I have been linking to the Podcast available through KSL.com. The KSL podcast is great because the sessions become available very quickly, usually before the subsequent session has started. However, the feed from KSL is very poorly managed. This last conference it worked fine for the Saturday sessions, but none of the Sunday sessions ever were posted. It makes me wonder if the feed is being generated by hand and someone forgot to update it.
In any case, extrapolating from the naming of the mp3 files for Saturday sessions, I was able to guess the names of the Sunday session mp3 files, which did in fact exist shortly after each session, and link to them from my blog.
The advantage of the official feeds from lds.org is that they will likely be better maintained, and that they offer individual mp3s of each talk rather than semi-sessional mp3s like the KSL feed.
I wonder if the new official feeds will update as quickly as the KSL feed? It would be great if the mp3 for each talk posted shortly after the talk completed.
As a father of two intelligent and beautiful daughters, I have pondered at times the need to inoculate our young girls against the false ideas of beauty that are emphasized so much in our culture.
Perhaps one way to combat the social virus is by exposing the lie in a very visual way. I think that the following video does just that in a short but stunning 1 minute 15 seconds:
Watch it at the Google Video website
I suggest viewing the video more than once and paying close attention to the manipulations made after the photographs are taken.
If you missed a talk or two, or even a whole session of the Semi-Annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints this past weekend, each public session is available for download in mp3 format from KSL . They also offer a podcast that you can subscribe to with iTunes or a similar program.
The mp3s for a session usually become available within an hour or two of the end of the session, but this year they had some technical difficulties and they are only becoming available now.
If you weren’t able to listen during the broadcast, or if you would like to review a certain talk, you can download and listen to the whole thing at your own convenience.
I will update this post to link directly to the mp3 files as they become available:
The mp3s of last April’s Conference are available here
UPDATE: mp3s of each session as well as mp3s of each individual talk in the conference are now available from the church’s official website. They are available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese . I have changed the links above to point to these urls instead of KSL.
If you missed one or more of the sessions of the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints this weekend, each session is available for download in mp3 format for free from KSL . The mp3s for a session usually become available within a half an hour after the session ends. So if you weren’t able to listen during the broadcast, you can still listen to the whole thing at your own convenience.
I will update this post to link directly to the mp3 files as they become available:
Saturday Morning Session, First Hour
Saturday Morning Session, Second Hour
Saturday Afternoon Session, First Hour
Saturday Afternoon Session, Second Hour
Sunday Morning Session, First Hour
Sunday Morning Session, Second Hour
Sunday Afternoon Session, First Hour
Sunday Afternoon Session, Second Hour
