I know that many of you have gotten caught up in iPod® fever over the past couple of years; i know I have. One of the biggest problems that I've run into with my iPod is finding good content to fill it up, and I want to take this opportunity to let you know about some of the best sources I've found so far, some free, some not.
iTunes Music Store
We'll start with the obvious one. The iTunes Music Store is definitely the Apple-recommended source of iPod content, and it's a great one. Featuring a library of over 1 million songs from Big Five and Indie labels, as well as audiobooks from audible.com (more about them later), the iTMS is the #1 online music store in the world. Here are some links to get you started:
- Weekly FREE Music(Bottom Right Corner)
- What I've Downloaded
- What I'm Listening To
One last thing on iTMS: If you drink Pepsi, you'll want to be on the lookout for yellow Pepsi bottle caps good for free downloads. You'll also have a chance to win a FREE iPod® mini for each cap you redeem.
Audible
If you're like me, and you love book but don't have the time to read for fun, but you do spend a lot of time in situations where you can listen to you iPod--driving to work, school, home from college, walking to and from class--then Audible is the ticket for you. For $20 a month, you get two audiobook downloads, regardless of how much the book normally costs, and some are upwards of $80. To make it even sweeter, you can get your first two audiobooks free!
Podcasts
I'm sure you've almost all heard about the phenomenon that is the podcast. If you haven't, we'll just call it a weblog for home-brewed audio, and it's re-making online audio distribution, the same way that blogging has re-made online publishing. There are several applications out there, for all platforms that make it easy to subscribe to, download, and transfer podcasts to your iPod. Here are a few of them:
- iPodder 2.0 (Windows®, Mac®, and Linux v1.1)
- Podfeeder(Windows)
- More to come...
The nice thing about podcasts is that, as far as I've seen, they're free, and there's definitely no shortage of them. You can even make your own. One way to do this, easily, is by using your 3rd or 4th generation iPod and a Griffin iTalk and LapelMic. Just as a sidenote, one of the most popular types of podcasting out there is known as "Godcasting," that features Christian and other "family-friendly" content.
Well, that's it for now. Happy listening!
Posted by Brooks Travis | 
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