Open Book Club. Top 10 Free Programs to make the most out of your MP3 Collection. Ok, you’ve got loads of music on your computer – but is that all cluttered, unorganized, unmanaged and simply not easy to access? May be you need to do something. Literally hundreds of free software let you play, organize, burn and do lots more with your digital MP3 music collection. Have a well tagged, sortable music collection that you can be proud of! Here comes a carefully chosen list of free programs that might help you squeeze the best out of your MP3 collection. Part I – Audio Players The default audio player software on your Windows is probably not enough, when it comes to extensive features and customizability. VLC Player – It’s more light on resources that you would imagine. Winamp – Winamp has its own fans, it’s customizable to a large extent and can come as a great saver.
Songbird – A feature rich application that has great looks, go for it if your Windows computer has got some memory to spare, it’s reviewed here. Part II – Organizers/Taggers/Jukeboxes Part IV – Audio Editors. Moby Makes Music Podsafe. Moby is giving away some free music. He's not pulling a Radiohead, at least not directly. Instead of releasing an album online, he's releasing 76 different tracks online, all of them freely available from his website in MP3 format (after passing through an email registration screen). The purpose of the give-a-way isn't to propagate his music throughout the iPods of the world, but to allow independent filmmakers and media producers to use the music under a Creative Commons-ish license: this portion of moby.com, ‘film music’, is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short.to use the site you log in(or on?)
It's an interesting move, and if you don't run advertisements on your podcast, qualifies as "pod-safe" music. Woonz.com - The Audio Search Engine and Download Option. Library Podcast! VoiceThread. Beemp3. Podcasting 101 for K–12 Librarians. FEATURE Podcasting 101 for K–12 Librarians by Esther Kreider Eash Our 21st-century school librarians can lead the way with innovative programming, new resources, and creative instruction.
But first, they need to learn what podcasting is all about. The New Oxford American Dictionary chose “podcast” as its 2005 Word of the Year over “persistent vegetative state,” “bird flu,” “sudoku,” “rootkit,” and “lifehack.” 1 During the past 2 years, podcasting has become increasingly familiar as a method of information sharing. Yet when I queried 100 librarians during my presentation on professional development at the American Association of School Librarians meeting in October 2005, not one hand went up to indicate that anyone had accessed or listened to a podcast. Most did not know what a podcast was, and no one had used a podcast with students, much less created one. I had just suggested podcasting as a cost-effective method of providing professional development to teachers. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. VozMe. The Complete Guide to Free Music Online (Legal Edition)
Free online music used to be like the Wild West of the Internet with services like Napster dominating the field during the bubble. Now, as the Internet has matured, new models for distributing music are coming together. But who's going to pay for all this free, legal music? A common answer to this pesky question is advertising, but some justify it as a marketing cost and some are still silent on how exactly they'll make this "new" business model work. But the important part is that you can take advantage of their generosity right now by downloading or listening to as much music as you can handle.
The Complete(?) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. eMusic: Limited to 25 MP3 downloads during free trial period. 2 million song library. 9. 10. 11. 12. iLike: Discover new music through your friends. 13. 14. iJigg: Digg for music. 15. 16. New! 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. Labels: Technology. Podcasting. Podcasting is a simple means of distributing audio content over the Internet, taking advantage of the power of RSS. Content consumers (end-users) can subscribe to a feed of a producer's audio content and receive automatic downloads of new content as it is made available online. A more comprehensive discussion of podcasting can be found in the Wikipedia entry on podcasting. For the library that works hard to produce audio content such as recordings of programs or library tours, podcasting can be an effective means of making that content more widely available.
The following is a list of libraries and affiliated organizations that are currently podcasting and offering selected podcast resources service: The following are School libraries that are currently podcasting or using podcast resources: For a list of podcasts that are aimed at or should be of interest to library staff, see the "Podcasts" page in LISWiki. How To Podcast (general advice) Podcast-friendly music Audio/Video Editing Software. Music Search. PodcastAlley. The Podcast listener :: March. The other day I finally got round to loading a couple of mp3 files on my mp3 player, how awesome listening to web2.0 talk whilst hanging out the washing, on the train, waiting in lines…I’m not an official all sensory information addict till I start watching vodcasts on my device.
It’s taken me a while to become a podcast listener and I’m addicted, actually I’m frustrated as I only have dial-up, I can only download about 2 or 3 shows a night. OK, so as a user the first thing I thought was where do I find web 2.0 related mp3 files or podcasts. The next thing I thought was how do I manage these downloads. Find Many of the blogs I follow point to mp3 files all the time, so now I have to go through these blogs to find these files, but how, this search doesn’t work on Google Blog Search: blogurl: filetype:mp3 Anyone know a way around this…maybe using Altavista audio search ? So my aim is to find audio files and to also find podcasts, here are some I found. Yahoo! Podscope. Find MP3s with Google. Podcast Ready. Neuroanatomical Reference / SylviusVG, iPod Edition.