I haven't got and iPOD yet, but my husband got one given to him for Christmas and he is loving it! He has downloaded lots of songs to listen to when he goes to the gym!!
I had a look at a couple of the sites listed and have already told my husband a whole lot of songs that he can download onto a CD for a 70 year old friend of ours who loves his jazz - free stuff - wahoo!
The first site I visited was Amazon.com. This was really easy to navigate around and there was a list of music genres to choose from so it is quite easy to see what is available in each genre. Because I chose "Christian" as a genre, there was too much selection but I did see a couple of artists' albums that I would probably download being Fred Hammond and some jazz titles such as Easy River Drive by Grover Washington Jnr, Original Jazz Classics and a free sampler of Jazz Legends.
The next website I looked at was AmieStreet.com
This one, I felt was even more user friendly that Amazon.com. The tags along the top gave you options such as " Music you love", "Top 25 Playlist", and "Create your own playlist." As a new browser I found these tags straight forward and easy to understand. It had a drop down menu with all the different music genres amd the How? for Creating a Playlist, on the R.H.S of the website a useful guide for a novice like me.
Click "Options" button
Click "Add to playlist" next to any song
Click "Create playlist"
And then continue.... until you have a playlist to enjoy :)
Apparently this site is just like iTunes when it comes to creating, managing and listening to songs.
I wouldn't know, but that what the website tells me! One day when I embrace this musical frontier, and I will be able to check this out more thoroughly for myself.
Until then... I will just have to refer my customers to these sites when they are illegally downloading material! If I can understand the instructions, then I will have no trouble navigating them around the site - in fact, our patrons may not need my help at all!
It would probably be a good idea for some one to design a template with all these Free and legal sites listed on it, so that we can leave them to it. Perhaps that could be a small task that I could do when I am next rostered on the Learn.net......
That's me signing out for another week - one more to go....
Jesus Freak
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This exercise isn't the easiest to get through as there's such a huge list and, depending on your music taste and how easy they are to navigate (or not) it may be a few tries until you find one that's halfway useful. So YAY you for persevering! And that's a great idea re: template. Hmm...
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