Archive of 'Multimedia'

Amarok 2.1 is out & Installing Amarok 2.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

[ sobota, 13 Czerwiec 2009, SathyaBhat ]

I was catching up on some feeds yesterday, and this piece of news caught my eye – Amarok 2.1 released. Being a long time Amarok fan ( heck Amarok itself was catalyst to make me use my SUSE 10.0 use full time) – I read the article with great interest. Amarok 2 users would know [...]

Exaile — versantile audio player for GNOME

[ niedziela, 13 Lipiec 2008, b.YISK ]

Exaile is a wonderful application for listening to music in a GNOME environment. Although it could be considered a newcomer to the music player world and we are not hearing much about it, I have been using Exaile for quite a while now and I think it is the best application of its kind. For [...]

Amarok 2: Visual Changelog

[ sobota, 24 Maj 2008, Bastion ]

Amarok multimedia player is one of the best programs of its kind not only for Linux but for any operating system nowadays. It has been created as a KDE component. Most people hoped to have Amarok 2.0 included in KDE 4.0, which hasn’t happened. It’s hard to predict if it finds its way into KDE [...]

KDE 4 Tour: digiKam 0.10

[ wtorek, 26 Luty 2008, Bastion ]

digiKam 0.10 is not only a port of the application to KDE 4. It also brings a few new features, including ‘Timeline’ applet. PolishLinux.org has a screenshot tour.

BBC iPlayer Linux screenshots

[ poniedziałek, 17 Grudzień 2007, michuk ]

BBC iPlayer after a lot of complains, petitions, talks and discussions is finally available for GNU/Linux as beta. I took a look at what BBC has prepared and in general I have to say: good job!

Foobar2000 under Wine in Ubuntu

[ niedziela, 25 Listopad 2007, P2O2 ]

Wine full of foobars… The newest version of Wine (Windows API Linux emulator) allows one to run foobar2000 with most of its plugins in Linux. At last ColumnsUI works correctly! There are a few inconveniences, of course, but more on that later. Let’s check them then!

Ripping and Encoding Audio Files in Linux

[ poniedziałek, 22 Październik 2007, qpalzm ]

Listening to the music played back from original audio CDs on a home computer creates clear discomfort — the CD drive is being blocked and the CDs have to be changed again and again (unless you have a home jukebox). Now it’s time we learn to rip (grab) our own audio collection and save it [...]

Internet Radio in NetBSD and Linux without KDE or GNOME

[ niedziela, 16 Wrzesień 2007, P2O2 ]

Listening to Internet Radios seems easy nowadays with the rampant powerful graphical environments of KDE and GNOME. Given that the computer you have is well equipped with processing power, it will do well with all those graphics overkill. But should users who own older machines get rid of the pleasure of listening to the Internet radios? Never!