Motivate Me Monday – Get Rid of all Those CDs! (Psst. Contest Below!!)

What’s the best way to organize your out-of-control music collection? Get rid of all those cds that have taken over your house! Now I am not saying to throw all of your cds into a trash bag and head to the dumpster. I am saying to narrow them down to your very favorites.

With all the digital music these days, you don’t need to collect every cd in the world. Especially the cd that has one song that you listen to. I’ve done that before. I heard a really great song on the radio, went to the store, bought the cd and then realized that was the only song I liked.

So, for this Motivate Me Monday  post, I am encouraging you to do 2 things: take a look at your cd collection and see if you can weed out some and take a look at the digital music world which allows you to have all of your favorite songs on a little bitty iPod.

What? Did you say you know nothing about digital music and you have no idea where to start? No worries, b5media to the rescue!

b5media’s new Music Channel launched today and there are some awesome blogs there. The one that caught my eye first was Our Digital Music. It’s all about the digital music revolution. There really is no need to have an out-of-control cd collection these days.

Oh and did I hear you say you want an iPod but can’t buy one right now? No worries again, just enter b5media’s contest which is part of the Music channel’s launch. They are giving away 3 iPod shuffles, 3 Memorex MP3 players pre-loaded with MusicIP’s discovery software and 3 $25 iTunes certificates.

All you need to do is blog about the music channel’s launch, and send an e-mail to musiccontest@b5media along with the URL for your post. Pretty simple huh?

I am very excited about this new addition to b5media. You can read the entire press release below the cut. Enjoy! And go enter that contest!

b5media Inc. is extremely pleased to announce
the launch of its new music channel featuring 30 blogs focused on a wide
variety of genres and geographical locations.

This is b5media’s 14th channel and increases the number of blogs within
the network to more than 230.

“Since b5media first launched in September of 2005, we’ve felt the music
scene was being vastly underserved by professional blogs,” said Jeremy
Wright, b5media’s CEO. “We believe that by bringing together thought
leaders in the music space, new music bloggers and plain old music
phreaks that we can provide a real place where music lovers from around
the world can find bands, music, reviews and content they’ll love!”

The music channel portfolio, headed by channel editor Mike Laba,
features blogs about the indie, metal, jazz, blues and crooner scenes as
well as hotspots such as Austin, Nashville, , the U.K., Australia and
Toronto.

“I’m a huge music fan, and I think music lovers are going to find our
blogs to be rewarding places to discover new and exciting bands and
artists within various genres and styles,” Laba said. “We’ve assembled a
great group of passionate bloggers so whether it’s music discovery or
re-discovery, this channel will rock all expectations.

As part of the music channel’s launch b5media is giving away three iPod
Shuffles, three Memorex MP3 players pre-loaded with MusicIP’s kick-ass
discovery software,, and three $25 iTunes certificates.

To enter the contest, all you need to do is blog about the music
channel’s launch, and send send an e-mail to musiccontest@b5media along
with the URL for your post. We’ll put all entries into a hat and pick
the winners.