Individual conference talks - audio files

Hello, wondering if anyone can point me the right direction to find out when the Oct 2018 conference talks will be available. Not in group audio, but individual files where we can skip forward/backward between individual talks, not whole sessions of conference. I find this is very helpful in the car listening to talks.

Thank you in advance!

If you look at previous conferences, for example the April 2018 conference, you will see a "Talks and Music" download link for each session (under the contextual three-dots menu). I'm guessing those links will be added sometime in the next week or two for the October 2018 conference.

Another option is to download the audio in Gospel Library – go to the list of talks under General Conference > October 2018, then tap the option in the top right to download all of the audio for the conference. The audio player in Gospel Library will automatically skip to the next audio item of the same "type" – so, if you start listening to a full session, when it gets to the end, it will skip to the next full session. If you start listening to a talk, it will auto-advance to each talk, skipping the full sessions.

I am also looking for the "Talks and Music" downloads. In the past they have been available within one week of the conference.
I have submitted feedback several times (always selecting "I would like someone to contact me regarding my feedback"), but have yet to receive a response. Are responses to feedback no longer provided?

Today I received a response to by previous feedback submissions (maybe as a result of posting here?), it is quite disappointing:

Hello Chris,
Thank you for contacting us regarding the zip file for 2018 General Conference. Our tech department said that a zip file is not available. You can download the talks by session or individually by going to LDS.org or the Library app. We hope this will help you find and study what you would like.
Have a good day.
LDS.org Response Team
pcn

For all who value the "Talks and Music" download option, please submit feedback and request this great option for enjoying General Conference be made available again.

The "talks and music" option is now available on LDS.org !

It has been over a month and still no "audio and music only" option. This has been a great resource in the past. Hoping it is available soon!

I see audio for sessions and for individual talks.

Unfortunately there is not the same option as in previous conferences. If you click on the three vertical dots above each session, there should be an option to download the session "talks and music" only. This typically takes 2-3wk for the Church to post.

Jcsmart wrote:Unfortunately there is not the same option as in previous conferences.

Understood. But the church does change the format from time to time. If you go into the individual talk, you'll see the option to download just that talk. So, the files are there, but not all together for easy download.

If you want to continue this, I'd suggest using the feedback link on the web page. You may not get a response, but it will be sent tot he appropriate people for review. This forum is primarily user-to-user support.

I do not always have good internet connection in places I go, so I need to download conferences to a device. This used to be a fairly easy process, but now complicated and difficult. Now, a downloaded file has a long hexadecimal name, instead of identifying the talk, Previously, the download was named something like 2024-April-Saturday Morning Session, or the name of the speaker and the name of the talk. Now, every download has to be renamed. This is especially tedious when downloading all the talks. I like to have each talk as a separate file, because some devices allow you to advance or reverse to an individual talk file, and if the download is by session, it takes you back to the beginning of the entire session.

It would also be nice to designate the file folder into which the downloads are to be saved, The only option now seems to be to the default "Download" folder, where they have to be renamed and then saved to a card or device.

I wonder who is doing this programming, and why it is so damaged by improvements. The programming used to be Excellent, as Church things usually are. Now it is sub-par. The Church can afford good programmers.

Why, when downloading individual audio Conference talks, the file names now are some sort of randomized mix of numbers and letters rather than the Conference date, name of speaker, and title of the speaker's talk? For example, I downloaded President Holland's April 2025 message titled, "As A Little Child," and the filename in my downloads folder is "n80cwfgri9360z4n9mckkekxkfa...-en.mp3." I can see President Holland's name only if I open up the file properties. Even then, the title of his talk is not included, nor is the date. It used to be that filenames made sense with date, speaker, and title. Why the change to "randomized" filenames? I do NOT want to download all the individual files and rename each one...

uvkbriml wrote: Sun Aug 10, 2025 10:01 pm Why, when downloading individual audio Conference talks, the file names now are some sort of randomized mix of numbers and letters rather than the Conference date, name of speaker, and title of the speaker's talk? For example, I downloaded President Holland's April 2025 message titled, "As A Little Child," and the filename in my downloads folder is "n80cwfgri9360z4n9mckkekxkfa...-en.mp3." I can see President Holland's name only if I open up the file properties. Even then, the title of his talk is not included, nor is the date. It used to be that filenames made sense with date, speaker, and title. Why the change to "randomized" filenames? I do NOT want to download all the individual files and rename each one...

I'd recommend sending feedback using the Feedback link at the bottom of the page on the Church website where you were downloading the MP3s.