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Set up a Linux media server

Do you have multiple machines around your house that would like to share a centralized server for multi-media? Having such a server for music allows for consolidation, ease of use, and space saving on client PCs. Of course to many users, the idea of setting up a multi-media server sounds like it would be a [...]

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Categories: Advice, Linux, Music and Video, Networks, Open Source, Server, Tutorials Basic, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 29th, 2009
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Online Music Player TubeRadio

If you are looking for music chance is that you find it at Youtube. It really does not matter if you are looking for something new, old, rare or popular as Youtube provides access to millions of different songs from artists from all over the world. Several online services have already used that vast repertoire [...]

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Categories: Music and Video, Online Services

Xbox Media Center on Linux

The Xbox Media Center arrived in 2004 and became popular so quickly that it became clear more ports would be needed. So the XBMC team allowed this tool to evolve into a cross platform media center that would run on just about anything you can think of.  But, of course, the purpose of this article [...]

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Categories: Hardware, Linux, Music and Video, Tutorials Advanced, software

Sync your Android phone with Banshee

Recently I finally managed to get rid of my iPhone for a much more Linux-geek friendly mobile – the HTC Hero. One of my issues with the iPhone was that, in order to do ANY syncing, you had to use iTunes, which I really didn’t like. And although the HTC Hero has yet to be [...]

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Categories: Google, Google Android, Hardware, Linux, Mobiles, Music and Video, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

Hulu desktop for Linux

I’m sure by now everyone here knows about Hulu. If not, Hulu is a rather huge collection of television programs that can be viewed on line, for free, with few commercial interruptions. It’s brilliant. You can watch old reruns of What’s Happenin? or Mork and Mindy or Alf! Yes, Alf! But many of you may [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Desktop Manager, Entertainment, Linux, Music and Video, The Web, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 9th, 2009
  • Comments: 24

How To Create A Spotify Account From Anywhere

Spotify has been in the news lately and it is likely that the music streaming service will become highly popular once they open registration for users in additional countries of the world. The service is currently limited to streaming music to a few countries including the United Kingdom, Sweden or France. Only users from the [...]

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Categories: Music and Video, Tutorials Basic

  • Author: Joe
  • Published: Sep 5th, 2009
  • Comments: None

XNJB: Transfer music to and from a MTP MP3 player on a Mac

When I switched to a Mac, I did not purchase an iPod for a few months. I previously had a Creative Zen Vision M media player. Unfortunately, this device was not mass storage, but utilised ‘Media Transfer Protocol’. Whilst several pieces of software on Windows provide the facility to move music to the device, OS [...]

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Categories: Gadgets, Hardware, Mac, Music and Video, Open Source, Tools, software

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