Every iPod owner must have tried to look for opportunities to download music for iPod from the Internet. You must have also discovered that apart from the default iTune website there are numerous other websites offering similar services. However, the selection can be too overwhelming to decide which site is the best for your needs.



These are the factors to consider when shopping for a service.

1. Huge selection of music and multi-genre database. It must also be constantly updated so that you can find the latest releases.

2. Best price. By that, make sure you choose one that offers you unlimited music downloads for a one-time membership fee to download music for your iPod.

3. No extra fees. Do verify that you do not need to pay any more fees other than the initial enrollment fees. What you are paying is for the privilege and access to download song tracks and you should never be paying for software such as file format conversion or others. Flee if they charge you for that.

4. Cystal clear quality of soundtracks. Not all paid music websites can guarantee providing excellent quality songs. Free P2P sites are even worse.

5. Check to ensure that the songs are in MP3, AAC and WMA formats. These are the only ones compatible with your iPod player. Other formats will need to be converted and if the service provides the software, it is still quite alright.

6. Solid customer and technical support. This is important. By good support, we also mean that they need to provide detailed, easy to follow instructions on how to use their service to download music for iPod and so on. They also need to be available whenever you need some troubleshooting.

7. Fast downloading speed, complete songs and correct songs. All three features are usually not a problem with paid websites, while free music sharing sites are notorious for never-ending downloading process, incomplete songs, and incorrect tracks.

8. PC protection. You need to make sure that the site offers you complete protection from viruses, worms, Trojans, adware, spyware and all kinds of harmful codes. This is to be assured that when you download music for iPod, you do so in a safe environment.

9. Secured environment for payment and a privacy policy. Since you could be using a credit card to make payment, the last thing you want to happen is a leak of your private details.

10. No infringement of copyright laws. The site must be authorized to provide the music files. Professional ones do tie ups with record companies to offer the music so that when you download music for iPod, you need not worry about breaking the law at all. The same cannot be said at some totally free P2P sites.

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