Educational Courses in Digital Format?

An anonymous reader asks: "I own a portable MP3 player. Recently, my friend showed me several MP3 files he ripped that teach Japanese. I spend much of my day commuting to and from work. Using my portable player to learn new topics strikes me as a good use of that time. Can anyone recommend any educational audio files?"

Comments

Try this:

[Lazyhound]

You can probably find something here.

Re:Cool!

[floydigus]

Clearly there is much educational material available on CDs.
Why not buy and rip?

some science and a little philosophy?

[Chilles]

Try finding these files somewhere.

technetcast

[krishnaD]

Look here http://technetcast.ddj.com/tnc_mp3.html
It has recorded mp3 interviews of people like Bruce Schneier, Gudio Van Rossum.

TNC

[kxr]

Not sure if this is the kind of thing you're after, but there's loads of really good stuff on TechNetCast. I just got myself an MP3 car-stereo, and plan to grab all the talks I haven't gotten around to listening to, so that I can listen to them in the car.

Audible

[egrinake]

Audible provides alot of various books on everything from fiction to science to language courses in a downloadable audio format. Unfortunately, they use a proprietary audio format (in order to encrypt the data etc) which are only playable on a handful of MP3 players which are "Audible ready".

You can, however, burn the files to a cd (according to the site), and then you should be able to rip it back to mp3.

Physics

[kasparov]

Even though it would be some work, if you are interested in Physics you should buy The Feynman Lectures on Physics on tape and use your soundcard to rip to mp3. These are an absolutely wonderful collection of Physics lectures from one of the brightest minds in the field.