Programs may be located on our archive pages, our daily program schedules or as results from our search engine. There are also regional programs available for downloading. Here's some examples below:

Program Archive Pages	Program Notes Pages	Search Results Pages

In addition, there are several other regional and Music Network programs that have interviews and other material available for downloading.

• Route 51 from the Wausau region.
• Spectrum West from the Eau Claire region.
• The West Side from the Eau Claire region.
• Podcast Interviews from "Higher Ground with Jonathan Overby".
• Artist Interviews from "The Midday".

If a specific program has the download link image next to it, then it is available. Simply click on this button and you'll immediately be offered a downloadable MP3 file of the program. There's helpful information and a simple "Start Download Now" button. That's it!

Yes, See our Top-Ten List. Statistics are aggregated over several days.

We currently offer ten WPR-produced series representing over 50 hours per week of downloadable MP3 files. Programs are available for download for up to four years after they air, so there are over 12,000 program hours available! Programs are usually available for downloading within a few hours of their airing. Below is a list of WPR programs currently available for downloading through Wcast.

There are several reasons why a program might not be available.

• The program is more than five years old.
• The program is not produced by Wisconsin Public Radio.
• The program contains significant amounts of copyrighted music or other material.

Yes, but an hour WPR program will take nearly an hour to download using a dialup connection! Instead, You may want to simply listen to our online streaming archives which "plays" a program using Windows Media Player or other streaming media player. If you still want to download the program, you can be doing other things on your PC while the file is downloading in the background. Here's a table that may help.

We used the MP3 format which is playable on almost every computer and portable player made. Most programs are encoded at 64kbps - an acceptable quality for monaural "talk" programming. A few programs like "Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?" are encoded in stereo at a higher bitrate. If you're concerned that our format may not be compatible with your media player, download the short, three minute test file below and launch it in your player.

Yes. Most CD burning software (Nero, Roxio, iTunes, etc) can create a "music CD" directly from an MP3 file. We suggest you save the file on your hard drive before attempting to burn the CD.

Yes, but it's very liberal. We are limiting downloads to 20 requests per day per visitor because of bandwidth and processer limitations. If you request a program and it fails during the download process, you can simply click the Download button again to restart it. Downloading the same program more than once does not count against the 20 downloads/day limitation.

You can download to your PC or MP3 player and burn the programs to CDs. You cannot edit or reorganize the content of the program in any way. We understand that some CD software will however change or "normalize" the recorded audio levels during the burning process, and this is acceptable. WPR downloads cannot be sold or posted on other web sites without permission. All WPR programming is © Copyright University of Wisconsin-Extension.