YOU ARE NOT ALONE - A companion online community discussion board for The Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast with Paul Gilmartin

Hi -

Long time, no post. How is everyone doing??

I got behind on MIHH during the past year (no commute = no time to listen), so I'm catching up on downloads for when I inevitably have to commute again. Anyone else have issues with the past 9 months of episodes? I know, that's a lot, and some links work, but a lot don't. Anyone comfortable hooking me up with some working links? Or should I mention it to Paul on social media? Or is it just me? I've been a Patreon supporter this entire time, so I'm not trying to play a fast one on anyone.

Thanks,
Stina

Stina wrote: ↑March 11th, 2021, 5:36 pmAnyone else have issues with the past 9 months of episodes?

Hello Stina! Do you mean the links on https://mentalpod.com/episodes ? If you don't mind, what episodes specifically don't work?

Thanks, all the best to you!

Hi -

Yes, on the website. (Duh, Stina, duh.)

Right now I'm scrolling down the episodes page... Episodes 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 528 are showing as downloads the size of KBs and when I click the links, I get the option to download an html file. 521 looks like it will download fine (72.6 MB), but there's a server error...

I have to catch up going back to the summer, so I'm gonna find more because I'm just jumping around and seeing what works.

Thanks!

Hello Stina,

Wow, another old-timer! I've only been listening since about 2019.... lots of catching up to do...

Haven't had trouble with downloads myself, although the size listed next to the Download button is wrong (and seems to have started displaying that way only recently).

When you hover your mouse over the Play and Download icons, do you see an address with the session name, ending in "MP3"?
Clicking with the right mouse button and then choosing "Save link as" should do it.
(I'm using the Chrome browser).

But the site *did* just get a platform upgrade recently, so there could be some kind of glitch...

Wishing you well.

Snoringdog

Ah, a platform upgrade. I thought the MP3 URLs looked different. A new host service?
I'm using Firefox and Chrome and having the same issues on both.
Just scrolled back to #493 and got a 500 Internal Error. #494 gives me the option to save an .html file. Blah blah blah.

Off-topic, but I remember the first ten episodes. Mr. Gilmartin was still finding his voice, in the extremely new medium of podcasts. I’m not sure if they’d meet modern expectations for podcasting, but at the time they were a breath of fresh air. Those early episodes helped keep me sober, when I had just a year or two.

I’m not sure if those first ten episodes are available anywhere lol

I had problems with the 490s this week, but I got 493-502 to download this morning!
Slowly but surely...
503-515 and 520-525 still aren't downloading.

oak wrote: ↑March 12th, 2021, 10:49 am I’m not sure if those first ten episodes are available anywhere lol

The episodes are gone, but the transcripts are still up!

Hello Stina,

The MIHH podcasts are posted to Itunes site if you have that installed.
Download from there with the "Get" button...

Hello,

Just got the 500 Internal Server Error trying to access "Shootout Survivor Dan Smith", though it appears to be available to play or download..

Here are the URLs, for the file itself, and from the error message;

https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e6 ... /audio.mp3

https://22943.mc.tritondigital.com/OMNY ... 1576124016

(This is on the same PC I've been using without trouble up til now...though it just got a Windows update, if that relates at all. Will try another...)