Have you ever wanted to download iTunes MP3s to your iPod? Maybe you’re a high school or college student attending multiple classes and you downloaded the MP3 audio of the lecture from the school’s website. Or maybe, you were fortunate enough to have a great instructor who has provided you with an MP3 CD containing a lecture you missed.

Mom has called and wants you home this weekend to celebrate Grandma’s 80th birthday knowing full well you have a midterm on Monday. A real dilemma. You need to keep Mom and Grandma happy, but you also need to study for Monday’s mid term. I can’t help with Mom and Grandma, but putting MP3′s of class lectures into your iPod so you can listen to them while you’re driving back and forth to school is a snap! I”ll tell you why. As an MP3 user, you already play audio files from your favorite musicians with Apple iTunes on your computer. These same files can be copied or downloaded from your PC to your iPod.

I’ll tell you how. The beauty of iTunes is that it keeps a database of the songs, lectures, or any other digital recordings you have downloaded from the internet or uploaded from CD’s. This digital “database” is called your library. Sounds complicated right? Well, it’s not. Here’s a little known fact about iTunes. The iTunes database is basically just an electronic pointer to where you have stored your MP3 audio flies. If you mistakenly add the same digital recordings more than once, the programming logic just updates the pointer.

If you have MP3 audio files on a CD or DVD, copy them first to your hard drive. This is especially smart if you use a laptop. Ever have a time where you wanted to listen to a favorite CD on the road or at Starbucks. Then you realized you left the CD at home and had not yet ripped them to your hard drive. Unfortunately, I have made that same mistake too many times to ever want to own up to it. Here is a very important reminder important when ripping music to your hard drive. Make sure you establish a logical filing system for your MP3′s so you can tell iTunes where to retrieve the data at a later date.

From the main menu under file, select add file to library to add one, or maybe a few MP3′s or select add folder to library to add all the MP3 files in a folder (or directory for Windows users). Shazaammm….your new files are added to your library. Finally, synchronize our iPod and listen to your new additions.

By: Michael Ottman

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The author is an independent internet publisher and often shares valuable consumer information. He frequently writes about consumer tips related to Apple’s iPod iTunes music store [http://www.ipod-videos-online.com/Apple_iTunes_Store.html] store and articles how to download iTunes MP3′s to your iPod using itunes tools.

Are you a podcaster? Do you love the excitement of recording your own voice, then broadcasting to the world via the Internet? Do you download podcasts from the Internet and later listen to them either on your personal recording device or computer? If so, what you are about to read is important information to you.

When a person downloads a podcast from the Internet, they use what is called a ‘podcast client.’ A podcast client is simply a piece of software used to download a podcast. You may have heard the term
‘media aggregators’ in the past? Well, they are one in the same. Media aggregators are designed to grab hold of a podcast via its online form or feed and then download the recording.

A quick look at Wikipedia will deliver a list of aggregators to include:

o Adobe Media Player

o Akregator

o Amarok

o Canola

o Flock

o iTunes

o Juice

o Mediafly SyncClient

o MediaMonkey

o Miro

o Rhythmbox (GNOME)

o Songbird

o Winamp

o Zune

Do the same for Client Software and the list will be five times longer.The best thing about these programs are that they are mostly free. However, like anything, they all have different bells and
whistles. So, research several to locate one that meets your needs.

You may have heard of RSS feeds? Well, the aggregators and client software programs download RSS feeds the user instructs them to monitor. The file then instructs the server holding the RSS feeds containing podcasts to download them.

Much like the trusted RSS feeds a person may download from their favorite blogs or websites, podcast client software enables a person to read over the information pertaining to any topic they may be
interested in without even launching a web browser.

By: David Hale

About the Author:
Dave Hale, Ph.D., has twenty-three years’ experience in design and delivery of training programs for public, private, government and non-profit centers. Dave is the CEO of DHI-Communications, an international business coaching and training consultancy, specializing in ecommerce business development and marketing. Dave is widely regarded as one of the top business coaches for Web 2.0 Entrepreneurs.

Dave is the author of The High Performance Entrepreneur: 12 Essential Strategies to Supercharge Your Startup Business. David’s work and books have been featured on national television, radio, and print media. To obtain more information on how to make barrels of cash in business and instantly receive my FREE CD and Business Journal go to http://www.DrDaveHaleOnline.com.