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.

Here is a set of factors to consider:

1. Access to millions of music, songs and other media files of a wide range of genres. Make sure that the service provides this to you. And they must update their library frequently.

2. Best value for your money: there are different payment schemes, but if you want to download music for your iPod with no limits and as cheap as one can get, unlimited music download sites with a lifetime membership are the answer to all your needs.

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. High quality of soundtracks. Unfortunately, even paid music websites sometimes fail to provide good quality of the files due to poor encoding or other reasons. Not to mention free P2P websites, where the quality of the shared files is almost always lousy.

5. File format needs to be compatible with your media player. The correct formats are MP3, AAC and WMA. If the website does not provide the format, at least make sure that they will provide the file conversion software free of charge.

6. Full support and easy navigation. If you have to spend hours trying to figure out how the stuff works, move on. There are plenty of user-friendly websites where you can download music for iPod without any hassle. Good technical support available 24/7 is another helpful feature.

7. Quick downloading speed, full version songs and correct song titles are important. Paid websites normally get these right. The same however cannot be said about free music sharing sites. These are notorious for slow speeds, incomplete songs and often give you a wrong track.

8. Malware and virus protection. Any music site that cares for its users will guarantee full protection from harmful spyware and adware, annoying pop-ups and all known viruses. However, if you download music for iPod from multiple (and not so trustable) sources, make sure your own antivirus program is powerful and up-to-date.

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.Legality. Last but not the least, check if the site is authorized to distribute the music files legally. You want to download music for iPod without breaking the law and contributing to piracy; besides, illegal websites rarely offer all the above-mentioned features anyway.

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