LDS Audio

There's a lot of good (and mostly free) downloadable audio for Latter-day Saints out there. If you're feeling guilty about all you're not listening to, here's what I suggest:

1) Go get an iPod (You owe it to yourself. And "free" will feel even better in contrast.)

2) Create a Smart Playlist in iTunes for each day of your commute. Set it up to include only files where Play Count=0 and Rating=0 so you don't get the same thing twice. (If you want to skip a file without listening, give it a one star rating first so it doesn't come up again.)

• (I don't want to read all this junk, just give me some links. . .) LDS MP3 Resources: * LDS.org * LDS Audio * BYU Broadcasting * BYU Speeches * LDS Music World

  Mondays - Ensign articles - download free MP3s from lds.org.
• Tuesdays - BYU Speeches - get free MP3 downloads (or cheap MP3 CDs and videos) of many BYU Devotionals going back as far as 1949. Search by author, year, topic. I highly recommend Gordon B. Hinckley's Building an Eternal Home from 1959, mostly for his sense of humor -- he forgot about the speech until the night before.
• Wednesdays - LDS Authors - you can get some good deals from ldsaudio.com. I got Jesus the Christ by James E. Talmage for $12 (although Jesus the Christ is now available for free at lds.org). They have a free download of the Book of Mormon, too.
• Thursdays - General Conference talks - free downloads from lds.org. MP3s of recent conferences are available in Cantonese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. I found a cool (and free) little application called LDS Audio Browser that makes it a lot easier to browse, read, and download Conference talks (although I don't much like what it does to the file names).
• Fridays - Gospel Scholars - go to FARMS to buy audiobook CDs from authors like Hugh Nibley and rip to MP3. I keep hoping they'll add MP3 downloads the the site.

More at lds.org
There are a bunch of other free downloads at lds.org's Audio Library - New Testament, Book of Mormon, Pearl of Great Price, Doctrine and Covenants, priesthood and Relief Society manuals, Friend and New Era magazines, hymns and other Church music, primary songs, etc.

I haven't listened to all of these yet, but MP3 archives of "The Worlds of Joseph Smith",
An International Academic Conference at the Library of Congress (May 6-7, 2005) are also available for free.

BYU Broadcasting
Another good resource is byubroadcasting.org, which has MP3 files of things like Doctrine & Covenants discussions by BYU professors. They're 30 minutes long and are (depending on the episode) a good supplement to your weekly study for Gospel Doctrine class. (And they're free.)
Use GetRight's "Numbered Sequence of URLs" feature to download the whole season. Some of the talks available on the site (search for Bruce Satterfield for some good ones) are in streaming Windows Media format only - use HiDownload to convert those.

Free Music
If you're looking for free LDS music downloads, try LDS Music World. Several of the MP3s are only clips, but look for "Download Song" (instead of "Download Clip") to get some full versions. Try some Ryan Shupe & The Rubberband (bluegrass - clips only), Jon Schmidt (new age piano - several full songs) and Peter Breinholt (contemporary folk - a couple of full songs).