problems?
We hope you'll find our site easy and enjoyable to use. If you are experiencing problems, please read the information below, which should help with some of the most common issues that arise. If things still aren't working, feel free to contact us and we'll do our best to assist you.
streaming
You can now listen to any track or talk on any device. Our audio streams are mp3 files and should play in almost all web browsers, on almost any device. If it doesnʼt on yours, please check there isn’t any conflict with browser ad blockers or extensions (try turning them off and refresh the page). If the problems persist, please get in touch and weʼll try to help.
donating
If you appreciate Free Buddhist Audio, please think seriously about becoming a regular supporter. This site has been entirely funded by donations from thousands of listeners over the years!
Join us now and help keep this amazing resource free for everyone!
downloading
You’ll see download buttons on all our talk pages. You can download a high quality mp3 version of each talk (around 21 MB for an hourʼs talk). This will be downloaded as a zip file (see below).
zip files
If you’re on a PC, when the download is completed you’ll have an audio file on your computer, or more likely a .zip file containing the tracks in a 'zipped up' folder. Your operating system will probably just unzip the .zip file for you when you double-click it. If not, and you are using a Windows PC, you can get support from Microsoft.
If you're experiencing an issue where your Windows computer is unable to unzip your download properly, the problem is likely to do with the file names of our tracks being longer and more detailed than normal (this helps with searching for information on your computer later on). It may be that this - combined with all of the folder names that make up your target destination - is too much for Windows' memory. (See also the Windows support site.)
Not all computers have this issue, but to get round it try extracting the talk to somewhere where the folder structure is less complex. For example, create a folder on your desktop simply called 'new talks', and set this as your download destination in the web browser. If the problem still exists after you move the downloaded files to your preferred destination (e.g. your 'My Music' folder), you can always change the filename to something much shorter and then try moving it again.
On smartphones and tablets, most modern devices using Android and iOS now support storing and accessing .zip files in the built-in file apps. You can also search on any App Store for “zip file” and find many apps that will let you store and access zip files and play the audio files inside them.
Over the next stages of FBA 3.0 we’ll be moving towards other ways to download files directly.
sound quality
The recordings in our catalogue were either digitally recorded (after the mid 1990s) or digitally re-mastered from the original source-tapes. Please be aware, however, that all of our talks were given publicly or to an invited audience, and that none of the recordings were made in a professional studio. As a result, the quality of the original recording is not perfect and, in some cases, quite poor (often with very low volume levels), particularly on older lectures. We have tried to indicate where specific instances of poor quality were encountered and can be heard on the files concerned. And we’ve turned up the volume where possible! All of the talks should now be clearly audible, and we have tried to preserve as much of the ambience of the original occasion as possible.
disclaimer
Please note that all of the views expressed in these talks are necessarily provisional! They are also not necessarily those of anyone connected with, or employed by, Dharmachakra or Dharmachakra Inc.
copyright
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