new experience

I love the new experience when I am studying the scriptures and other resources but a couple days ago I couldn't find the toggle to turn it on . How do I find it again?

The new experience is at a different URL: Study.LDS.org. The toggle has been removed because the old experience is being phased out – for example, there are no longer "old experience" pages for Church magazine content.

I can't download the entire Ensign in audio format anymore. Is there a new way to do that?

If you go to a magazine page (for example, in the March 2019 Ensign: https://www.lds.org/study/ensign/2019/0 ... d?lang=eng), there's a download button in the top right that gives you download options, including "Entire Book (MP3)."

When I choose Entire Book, I only get the mp3 for a single article, not the whole magazine.

I am having the same problem...I can only download the mp3 for one article at a time. To do that for 25-30 articles each month is way too time consuming. We need the single ZIP file with all the individual mp3 files for each article as before.

I put all the Ensign mp3 files on a flash drive each month and use the USB port on my car stereo to listen to them when driving. It works well in general, but large files (a GC session) are cumbersome to navigate; hence the need for individual files for each article versus a single mp3 file for the entire magazine.

The "Entire Book (MP3)" button is supposed to download a .zip file with MP3s for the full book. It looks like there's a bug – I'm seeing it as well. I'd recommend reporting it using the feedback link at the bottom of that page.

sbradshaw wrote:I'd recommend reporting it using the feedback link at the bottom of that page.

The Feedback link isn't at the bottom of the page in the New Experience. I actually thought it didn't exist at all, but I found it. You need to open the table of contents panel on the left and scroll to the bottom of that panel. You'll find the Feedback link there.

I got a response back. They said they've gotten many tickets regarding this and they are working on a fix.

I am still unable to download the .zip file with MP3s of the Ensign. This problem has persisted since March 2019. Is this the new norm? Will we no longer be able to download the audio of the Ensign?

cgcrandall wrote:I am still unable to download the .zip file with MP3s of the Ensign. This problem has persisted since March 2019. Is this the new norm? Will we no longer be able to download the audio of the Ensign?

+1 on this question. I'd like to be able to once again download the Ensign mp3s for my podcast player, just like I used to do in the past.

douglastc wrote:

cgcrandall wrote:I am still unable to download the .zip file with MP3s of the Ensign. This problem has persisted since March 2019. Is this the new norm? Will we no longer be able to download the audio of the Ensign?

+1 on this question. I'd like to be able to once again download the Ensign mp3s for my podcast player, just like I used to do in the past.

There's a feedback link at the bottom of the Church website (on some pages, it's at the bottom of the left column). I'd recommend sending feedback there to request that the download links be added. I agree that having a .zip file of the MP3s would be helpful.

Is anyone bothered by the audio available in the August Ensign issue? It's a robot! I really like to listen and read at the same time, but that won't be happening anymore. I feel sorry for those who have problems with eyesight and depend on the audio to get the messages. I couldn't imagine listening to that unfeeling, robotic voice.

momleish wrote:Is anyone bothered by the audio available in the August Ensign issue? It's a robot! I really like to listen and read at the same time, but that won't be happening anymore. I feel sorry for those who have problems with eyesight and depend on the audio to get the messages. I couldn't imagine listening to that unfeeling, robotic voice.

Recordings for the August 2019 Ensign haven't been published yet. The robotic voice you're hearing is probably the built-in text-to-speech on your device. If you're on Android, Gospel Library will fall back to text-to-speech automatically if an audio recording isn't available.

They've been moving around the download URL of the m4b audio files. I'm guessing that they either haven't settled on a final resting place, or they are deliberately moving it to confound the thieves of copyrighted material. Either way, they don't owe us an explanation. It is, after all, a business, run by businessmen.

The first article in the September 2019 Ensign is here: (https://media2.ldscdn.org/assets/magazi ... nload=true)
The second article in the September 2019 Ensign is here: (https://media2.ldscdn.org/assets/magazi ... nload=true)

I can't figure out what the "182" part of the URL is. It's not the volume number. "09" is the month. "002" and "003" must be the article number within a given issue. I'm guessing that "001" would be the table of contents, and maybe "000" is the whole magazine. I got lucky with that guess.

The entire September audiobook is here: (https://media2.ldscdn.org/assets/magazi ... 8k-eng.m4b)
August was here: (https://media2.ldscdn.org/assets/magazi ... 8k-eng.m4b)

July was here: (https://media2.ldscdn.org/assets/magazi ... 8k-eng.m4b)
June was here: (https://media2.ldscdn.org/assets/magazi ... 8k-eng.m4b)
May was here: (https://media2.ldscdn.org/assets/magazi ... 8k-eng.m4b)

April was here: (https://media2.ldscdn.org/assets/area-b ... 8k-eng.m4b)

March was here: (https://media2.ldscdn.org/assets/magazi ... 8k-eng.m4b)

gmuhl wrote:I can't figure out what the "182" part of the URL is.

It is the part of the distribution center code that identifies it as the Ensign.

You use to be able to download MP3 format for Church Magazines as soon as they came out. How can I download Oct 2019 Ensign audio? thanks