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Using gPodder, you can find, download, and then listen or watch directly on your computer or on your mobile devices. gPodder supports RSS, Atom, YouTube, Soundcloud, Vimeo, and XSPF feeds. gPodder can also import your existing subscriptions from iTunes or from an OPML file.

gPodder is available for Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, Mac OS X and mobile devices, like the Nokia N810, N900 and N9.

The Oddio Team have used gPodder for six years, and have only the best reviews. 

• We love how it can be set to automatically download new audio books, radio shows, and lectures. Then after we have listened to them, gPodder can mark them as old or delete them. 

• We love the episode details window that gives synopses of audio and video content.

• We love how gPodder lets us set up custom file names, like Name of Show - Episode Number - Title - Broadcast Date. This makes browsing files on devices much more convenient.

• We love that we can stream shows we are not sure about to preview them before downloading.

• We love how gPodder syncs up with mobile devices, replacing old content with new content. We always have fresh content!

We just love gPodder! It is free, open source, and works in most operating systems, so give it a go and feed your brain!

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Next week, the Oddbots will share some of the audiobooks and podcasts they enjoy.

Halloween Ear Candy

☠ Selections for a creepy Halloween!

	Psi Corps: Shadow Creatures Creepy Russian ambient EP based on the book CREATURES OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS by Roger Zelazny. Gloomy atmospheric soundscapes.
	Halloween 2011 Exclusive from Superchunk Superchunk likes to give seasonal treats. Get their Misfits cover for free!
	Chinstrap Music - Sounds to Come "Sounds to Come" is the second installment of a series on Chinstrap of music and sound-design cut from public-domain horror and science-fiction films from c.1930-1970...
	Parade of the Damned - WFMU's Beware of the Blog Goofy ghouly greats! Spooky Movies-Roy Clark, Lookout Mountain-Chuck Miller ,Screemin' Meemies-Merv Griffin, Soul Dracula-Hot Blood, Count Yorga Dark Shadows Midnight Monsters Hop-Jack and Jim, Beware-Bill Buchana,n Monster Man-Screaming Lord Sutch, Dinner With Drac-John Zacherle, Rockin' Zombie-Crewnecks, Bo Meets The Monster-B...
	DJ Rozz - Spooky Halloween 2011 Mix DJ Rozz presents a DUBSTEP Halloween-themed mixtape. "Stabs you in the guts and leaves you bleeding for the zombies. Good luck!"
	Tales of the Frightened Spooky! Two Boris Karlof albums shared for Halloween at Kiddie Records Weekly!
	This Plague Of Dreaming This Plague of Dreaming is perhaps the only free netlabel focused on HORROR. Give yourself the willies for free! "... a perfect agony to contend with the intellectual discipline of the awkward and alien sound. This Plague of Dreaming is the flicker of a hand-wound projector replaying last century's October winds backwards in the..."
	Haunted Arcade Mix by PP Roy new spooky Halloween mix by PP Roy at Upitup Records, "Expect a bit of electronics, vintage video games, ghouly synths, disco and even a bit of rave action!"
	Creative Commons Halloween Mix 2011 Irene Rible returns this year with more legal downloads for Halloween culled from the Free Music Archive. "This time around we've got some sinister classical favorites, 8bit Dario Argento film scores, Peter Lorre interpreted via twisted circuit benders, and some frighteningly bad tunes from America's premier mass murdering..."
	Stealing Orchestra - Bu! TAGGED AS: experimental, sampling, spoken word, hip-hop, electronica, sound collage, portugal, fun, horror, stealing orchestra, obscure, ...
	Halloween Mix | GORILLA VS. BEAR Three years of Halloween mixes by Gorilla vs Bear
	Sonic Safari Halloween 2011 Podcast of Oddities Buck Owens & His Buckaroos - (It's A) Monster's Holiday, Rusty Diamond - Skellykins, Ray Sanders - Graveyard Dance, Billy C. Cole - Put The Hearse In Reverse, The Tarantulas - Tarantula, ...
	Dr. Frankenstein - The Cursed Tapes Horror surf! TAGGED AS: surf, rock, horror, dr frankenstein, portugal, rockabilly, ...
	Glass Candy - "Halloween" and more creepy mp3s "Glass Candy's sinister homage [VIDEO] to the John Carpenter classic. A Candy coated gift for all the Ghouls & Goblins in Candyland. Trick Or Treat.... Disorienting walls of synthesizers grasping for their last breath accompanied by Rossini's most disturbing work to date...."
	Lee Rosevere - "Trick Or Treat" "A stormy night pushes you to toward a huge and dark house belonging to the reclusive Dr. Slocum, a mysterious genius who converted a closed asylum into an evil labratory, where he hides from the world with his menage of monsters of science. But the ghosts that haunted the asylum are still there..."
	Martinibomb and the Coconut Monkeyrocket - Munster Beat! Martinibomb and The Coconut Monkeyrocket join forces this scary season to bring you their spin on the theme of the Munsters television show! Yay!
	Zacherle Singles! - WFMU's Beware of the Blog "Zacherle (aka Zacherley) had been a TV horror-film host in ghoul makeup for most of the 1950s and early 60s, and in the early days of FM's popularity he was an innovator of free-form radio...."
	Chiptune Horror compilation from True Chip Till Death True Chip Till Death is a blog showcasing hardware, software, and artists utilizing obsolete console and computer hardware. This compilation features creepy horror tracks from some of those artists.
	Various Artists - Calling All Fiends Oddio Overplay put the challenge to musical artists the world over to create Halloween music that is "frightening, damaging and disturbing." No "Monster Mash," instead creepy soundtracks to a fiendish Halloween. They succeeded with CALLING ALL FIENDS! Some of these pieces will creep you right out of your skin. [creepy soundscapes, rock and dance tunes, fiendish songs]
	Let Me Buy U, Anne Drank Vol. 2 (Halloween Edition) "Screwed, chopped, and mixed by Babe Rainbow Dayton Family - Blood Bath Tommy Wright III ..."
	Endless Hell - yk mix "The seventh installment of my annual Halloween mix is here. Going back to the first entry, Pure Terror, it's obvious that the mixes used to contain a lot more levity than they currently do. Next year I will strive to bring the `fun` back to the Halloween mix but, this year, I've compiled a batch of songs that look to create an atmosphere of doom, gloom, spookiness, terror and just downright crazed...."
	Deadboy Halloween mix 2011 "Our good mate Deadboy put a smile (or was it an evil grin?) on our faces when he sent this over this morning his brand new 2011 Halloween mixtape. If you caught the 2010 edition you'll know what to expect - pure ghoulish vibes to serve as the perfect soundtrack to your Halloween weekend."
	Clinical Archives For Halloween creepout, definitely check out the Clinical Archives. That highly respected label has many releases of dark, ambient works that can give you the shivers! "Clinical Archives is independent netlabel from Moscow (Russia) for eclectic and illogical music..."
	An Aural Halloween Trinity: Scar Stuff, Arch Oboler, Reverend Frost WMFU's Beware of the Blog shares classic kid Halloween records, old time radio horror stories, and Halloween mixes
	LibriVox - Horror Story Collection 001 "We aim to unsettle you a little, to cut through the pink cushion of illusion that shields you from the horrible realities of life. Here are the walking dead, the fetid pools of slime, the howls in the night that you thought you had confined to your more unpleasant dreams."
	Memory Tapes - Walk Me Home (Halloween Mix) The Fader writes, "...darkwave and brooding quarter-goth. On 'Walk Me Home,' a Halloween mix made for Arawa, the art of the creepy toy piano melds faces with the darkest synths, and eerily teases out the creepiness of Italo disco." (Host Arawa shares other Halloween mixes, too.)
	The Horror Compilation from WFMU's Beware of the Blog "As a special Halloween treat, here's a seventy minute long horror music mix I put together for the 2001 WFMU marathon, culled from years of Halloween specials on my Wednesday morning show...."

A Gajillion Free Audiobooks - UPDATED

Sources for free spoken books, or audiobooks, available for download and/or by RSS subscription:

see also Tell Me Something,  audio books, lectures, stories, and podcasts

LibriVox
provides free audiobooks from the public domain
http://librivox.org/

Gutenberg:The Audio Books Project
Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books, also
provides human and computer read books
http://www.gutenberg.org/

LoudLit.org
committed to delivering public domain literature paired with high
quality audio performances
http://www.loudlit.org/


LearnOutLoud.com
over 15,000 audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos
http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video

Audiobooks.org
four free books and links to others
http://www.audiobooks.org/

Free Culture, by Lawrence Lessig
http://www.free-culture.cc updated
audio: http://www.turnstyle.org/FreeCulture/
and here: http://www.archive.org/details/free-culture-audiobook

AudioBooksForFree.com
free membership required, pay for higher quality audio
http://www.audiobooksforfree.com

Podiobooks.com
serialized audio books in podcast format
click to listen on site or subscribe to feed
http://www.podiobooks.com

Activated Stories
http://activated.libsyn.com

Americana Phonic
http://www.americanaphonic.com/

AudioBoo Audiobooks Channel
http://audioboo.fm/channels/audiobooks

BBC Afternoon Drama
radio dramas to surprise and delight
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qrzz

Free Audio
a non-partisan org with goal to spread the word of liberty, freedom and democracy
http://freeaudio.org

Japanese Literature At Bedtime [jp]
http://jclab.wordpress.com/ updated

Literalsystems
http://literalsystems.org/abooks/index.php

Literate Loser Show podcast
http://literateloser.mitchellkdwyer.net

Mercury Theatre (old time radio from '30s and '40s)
http://mercurytheatre.info

Miette’s Bedtime Story Podcast
http://enivrez.com/bedtime

Public Domain Podcast
http://publicdomainpodcast.blogspot.com

Spoken Alexandria Project
http://spokenalex.org

Story Spieler
Roy reads classics and his own works
http://www.storyspieler.net/ updated

Thought Audio
"one of the most fundamental aspects of humanity is to enjoy its thoughts and its great works"
http://www.thoughtaudio.com/


NEW: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, and Such

• Clarkesworld
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NEW: For Children

• The Story Home 
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• Barefoot Books
• The Palace of Stories
• The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd
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• Audiobooks For Kids by KayRay
• BBC Podcasts for Children 
• Childrensbookradio
• Candlelight Stories
• Guardian (UK) Children's Books Podcast
• Original stories for Original Ears

updated July 2012