As some of you might know I create/update packages for Ubuntu for the GetDeb project. What the project tries to accomplish is supply updated or newly created packages that aren’t in the Ubuntu repository. Ubuntu is sometimes late with updates for packages, like the official repository still has Pidgin 2.2.1 while 2.3.1 has been out for quiet a while and maybe a few days after it’s release you could download the latest version on GetDeb. One of the reasons why Ubuntu hasn’t updated their version yet is because of the focus on the new release, Hardy, and because of all the patches they create themselves.
Posts Tagged “Linux”January 22, 2008 | No Comments I just converted the WordPress database to UTF-8. It turned out when I create a database on my hosting website it defaults to latin1. The conversion was pretty easy in just a few steps. December 26, 2007 | No Comments I’ve been using a windows box for my photography workflow, meaning I import my NEF files into Lightroom, remove unwanted pictures, convert them into DNG, add keywords, add to collections, make necessary changes as needed like white-balance, exposure and if needed I do some more touch-ups in Photoshop, saving them as PSD so I can stack them in Lightroom. I wanted to see if I could do the same on my Linux machine. November 8, 2007 | No Comments I really only keep MP3 files, I have flacs as well, but usually convert them to mp3. In my humble opinion there’s only one tagger you should use on Linux, EasyTAG. Hopefully the people at Tag&Rename will create a Linux port, I sure hope so. November 6, 2007 | 1 Comment For a while now, actually ever since I started using Linux as my choice of operating system on my desktop, I’m struggling to find the right way to manage my music. I found my perfect way to organize it on the drive but I have yet to find the perfect program to manage my library.I organize my music on my drive as /Artist/ Year – Album/Track# – Song title and for compilations, like sound tracks, it’s /OST/Year – Album/Track# – Artist – Song title. I have some other directories structures as well but you get the picture. Before I made my move to Linux, I never used a music organizer. I just open Windows Explorer, browse though my directory structure and add songs to QMP, my player of choice. For some reason I can’t seem to do this on Linux, technically you can of course but something is stopping me from using this method in Linux. I have a bookmark straight to my music library but I don’t use it. One reason is the lack of a missing “Open with <player>” when I right click on a directory, you have to go into the directory before you can add songs to a player. I have tried to find a library organizer and the best thing I’ve found is Amarok. Now I use Gnome as my desktop environment and when I installed Amarok I kept getting error messages in my syslog, it wasn’t effecting my desktop, no crashes or such but some of the KDE libraries tried to start or search for something in the background and I don’t like that. All other’s that I’ve tried just don’t do it for me, I’ve tried several Banshee, Aqualung, Rhythmbox and some others. Some are slow, some don’t have full support of all ID tags. I still need to find an organizer to my liking but I’m not giving up, until I find one I’ll just have to do it the hard way, browsing and adding songs. |
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