Is there any chance these Startup School Radio recording files will be
made available in a typical audio encoding format (mp3, ogg, m4a, ...)
over http or ftp?
Neither Soundcloud nor iTunes provides simple download links.
The embedded Soundcloud player on that page has a download button in the upper right corner (arrow pointing downward) that will download the audio in mp3 format.
Thank you, but the problem is the "player" from soundcloud; it requires
running thousands of lines of javascript and it's completely unnecessary
for delivering audio. It would be simple to use a HTML5 <audio> element
with the src attribute set to a media file for playback in HTML5 enabled
browsers, and for the non-HTML5 browsers, you can easily provide a link
to the audio file.
Neither Soundcloud nor iTunes provides simple download links.