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Free Audio Content for Long Drives?

Posted by Cliff on from the pleasant-diversions-for-the-ears dept.

goatbar asks: "We are going to be driving across the country at the end of the week to a new job and wondered if there are good sources for free books/stories on tape that we could put on our iPod to make the long hours of freeway driving go much faster. What are your favorite stories for the road and where are good places to pickup content? Old radio shows, mysteries, etc are all good!"

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  1. This American Life by sneakers563 · · Score: 4, Informative

    My favorite "story" radio show is This American Life. You can download the shows from Audible for a fee, or, if you're using Linux, you could use something like VSound to get them for free.

  2. Project Gutenberg by Scuff · · Score: 5, Informative

    Project Gutenberg has a bunch of old books in audio formats.

  3. Well let's see by Hadlock · · Score: 3, Informative
    if you do a quick google search, you come up with

    • http://www.radiolovers.com/
    • http://www.related- pages.com/oldtimeradio/
    • http://users2.ev1.net/~ey /audio.html


    There's lots of stuff out there. I remember downloading 45 minute radio stories from the 30's and 40's as 10-15MB files in mp3 format @ a bitrate between 20-56 or so.
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  4. Previously on Ask Slashdot by Noksagt · · Score: 3, Informative

    This year's Technical Audiobooks: Where are the good ones? and Sources of Intelligent Audio for Commute? both had a lot of good suggestions.

    Podcasts are good, but (mostly) non-fiction & current. Audible or iTunes or other sources for downloading audio work well, as do ripping CDs to your player.