Mooncake Audio

Happy Mid Autumn Festival. Have a mooncake or two. Don't just look in front where you're walking, look up, up, up at the moon.

Today is I think day 100 or so of having officially quit NEWS. I no longer, read, watch or listen to news. I feel wonderful. I have done this in order to detox myself. I see no need to know about the latest person to have been mauled by a German Shepherd. And I figure if something REALLY important happens I'll hear it from my classmates or coworkers. Quitting news has added years to my life!

Lately I've been listening to a lot of different, rather engaging audio books. I put them on my MP3 player and listen to them on the bus, walking to class, cooking, and while doing other tasks where I can listen comfortably. In this way I read about a book, sometimes two a week. Here are some recommendations for finding free audio books:

1. www.fenopy.com has a huge listing of books that has been converted to audio form. Just be on the look out for poor quality recordings, some of them sounding like they were recorded by an ancient 1960's device. I'm picturing a device with a big horn and spinning tapes, perhaps called a "Recordolator Deluxe 201." You can usually tell the quality of the recording by looking at the size of the files. If it is a large book and the file is only 40MB that is usually a sign of the Recordolator Deluxe 201's dirty work. Look for the bigger files, I downloaded "Think and Grow Rich" and it came to about 800Mb. A little excessive perhaps but the sound quality is brilliant.

2. www.youtube.com has many videos. But you know that. However you can get all those lovely youtube vids into MP3 format to put on your MP3/4/10 player. Go to www.download.com and download the youtube to MP3 converter, slap that little rascal onto your computer and away you go! Another cool program from www.download.com is the youtube downloader, where you can download vids directly onto your computer for offline viewings.

3. Google for the torrent! This one seems like common sense as I'm sure you, like the rest of the developed world are a Google addict. Who actually uses Yahoo anyway? I've certainly never heard "Hey dude, just go and Yahoo it!" There are a few things to watch out for when googling for the torrent. Be specific with your search and only open up sites you're familiar with. A few I'd recommend would be www.isohunt.com, www.mininova.org and www.btjunkie.org. When I say be specific I find the best format for your search phrase to look like: book's name + author's name + audio book + torrent.

4. www.torrent-finder.com is a torrent search engine. If you can find where to search amongst the ads for getting ripped, playing virtual strip poker and vitamins you are doing well. When searches are returned to you scroll down to the bottom, as results at the top are rubbish that leads to further ads. Unless you have a thing for ads that is, than feel free to click away!

I hope that was helpful! I realize some of people may still not be familiar with the idea of torrenting so if you have any further questions or added suggestions leave a comment below!

That'll be all for today!

Ou.yang. ^_^