I work on a farm and spend much of my time doing repetitive tasks that require very little concentration. My sit-down study time is limited, which is why I'm trying to get the most out of my time while I'm doing farm work. I've used this time to listen to Pimsleur's Japanese lessons and audio rips of Jdramas that I watch. Pimsleur is great. I think it's been the most beneficial to my speaking and listening skills. I'm not advanced enough to listen to dramas and even understand 10% of it (well, maybe 10%). These are the only two listening methods that I've used to learn Japanese so far. I know there must be some other things I can listen to that would be helpful. What are your suggestions?

@zatarra, there are a few, but not many audiobooks available in Japanese. You said you would not understand much of a drama, so I guess these won't be much better, but if you have read the book in English it might be ok. The first two Harry Potter books for example, are really well done (they stopped after those two unfortunately).

The graded reader series by Ask Publishing have an audio CD with the stories. Not great, but worth the money. Short and simple. You can get it from Amazon: レベル別日本語多読ラエブラリー。

This might be beyond your level, but since Read Real Japanese is both a book and a CD, you can go through the stories carefully when you have time and then listen to them later. I recommend only adding stories to your playlist after going through them in the text (at this stage; when you can at least half-understand a story, I'd recommend listening first and seeing what you can get and then reading, but at the early stages there's no sense punishing yourself.)
http://www.amazon.com/Read-Real-Japanese...4770030584

There's a nonfiction volume too.

Coscom has some free audio you can listen to and some audio products,
http://www.coscom.co.jp/j-index.html

They used to have a lot more posted for free listening but I guess to many of us were listening without buying! If you buy something you can unlock more audio downloads, and if you looked around you might find archives of old coscom material (if you don't mind listening to years old news and editorials.)

Also if you have trouble understanding audio from dramas you've seen, you should poke around for the Japanese subtitles. d-addicts has quite a few. If you learn the vocab specific to a drama it should become comprehensible pretty quick.

You can listen to songs that you also review the lyrics of, like the ones in this thread:
http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid183734

I also posted about beginners watching something with subtitles a few times, and then adding the audio to their iPod. That makes it easy to follow, and it is enormously beneficial (especially for allowing words you already know to sink in, but it also helps learning new words). It's in this thread:
http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid183346

Japanesepod101 podcasts should be good for that, I listen to these podcasts when I commute. There are different difficulty levels, so you can find one that fits you.

There is also the NHK website with simplified versions of daily news (with audio), mentioned in another thread on this forum.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/

Hundreds of children's stories here, with audio + transcript: http://hukumusume.com/douwa/pc/jap/index.html

The Core 6000 data set includes audio files for the sentences and vocabulary items. See this thread for download links.

You can use Audio Lession Studio to create your own sound lessons using text to speech or existing audio files. I've used shell scripts for that on OS X.

Genki I and II come with a lot of audio lessons. Some of them require the textbooks or workbooks, but they can still mostly be listened by themselves.

There are also the VocabULearn courses. But they were created by translating a fixed list of English words and phrases to Japanese, and they contain a lot of kanji compounds, suru-verbs, and na-adjectives that would be easier to learn if you could see the kanji.

I don't have time to respond to you each individually right now, but THANK YOU so much! This is a lot of great stuff. I'll be going through this material when I get the time.