[brlug-newbies] [CCCC-Linux] January 15, 2007 Linux Desktop SIG Workshop

[edslinuxbox at cox.net]

---- willhill <williamhill2 at cox.net> wrote: 
> Amarok is awesome.  In some ways it's better than iTunes.  This should be a 
> nice lecture.
> 
> I can make a few slides on file formats and rippers if anyone is interested.  
> There are differences in what kind of players play what kinds of files.  With 
> larger flash drives and more powerful players these differences are less 
> important, but there are still some problems.

Please do so. It would be nice to take a look at the differences. I don't have an iPod. If anyone has one, bring it, along with its communications cable, and lets see how well it works with Amarok. I have a Palm Life Drive, a video camera that doubles as an MP3 player and an actual MP3 player. Haven't tried any of them with Amarok yet, but will by Monday. 

> 
> Ed, what are you using to rip your CDs?

Xandros Home, Premium and Professional Editions come with the Xandros Audio CD Ripper, which is a Xandros created product that works very much like FreeRip for Windows, and is integrated into Xandros' version of Amarok, which they call Music Manager. It scans the CD, goes to CDDB and gathers the album information, rips to FLAC MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Wave or CDA, users choice and configuration, and saves the tracks to ~/My Documents/My Music/Artist/Album/Tracks and names the tracks artist - track number - title, all of which are user configurable. Xandros File manager will also do the same thing just by dragging the tracks from the CD to a folder, but is not as flexible. Then, there is also grip. 

Ed