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Connecting Linux to a Bubba 2

If you don’t know, the Bubba 2 is a piece of hardware, driven by the Linux operating system, created by ecXito. The Bubba 2 can stream media, serve files, share printers, and more. How? The Bubba 2 uses Samba to share out services and files. Because it uses Samba, connecting to the Bubba 2 is [...]

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Categories: Hardware, Linux, Music and Video, Networks, Online Services, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

Tune into streaming servers with Streamtuner

Streamtuner is one of those Linux applications that would most likely go unnoticed without mention. That is a shame considering how easy it makes finding and tuning into various music streams without having to touch the command or even google your favorite types of music.
With Streamtuner you will find plenty of music genres at your [...]

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Categories: Linux, Music and Video, Online Services, Open Source, software

  • Author: Cheryl
  • Published: Apr 21st, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Send Videos to Your Mobile Phone with Vuclip

Almost everyone has a mobile phone today and phones themselves have gone beyond just devices to use to talk to people. Today’s phones come ready with a whole bunch of bells and whistles for their owners to play with. One of these includes support for video.
One of the best resources for an owner of a [...]

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Categories: Entertainment, Gadgets, Mobiles, Music and Video

The best Linux media players

Recently I have had a lot of people asking how to play various media files in Linux. Since most users are migrating over from either Mac or Windows, they are either used to one single application handling their media files or at least knowing exactly what apps handle each media type. When they migrate over [...]

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Categories: Advice, Linux, Music and Video, Open Source

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 17th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

WinLAME 2009 Beta Released

If you are looking for an easy to use music encoder you might want to give the latest version of winLame a try. Beta 1 of the 2009 release has just been made available on the official homepage of the project adding several improvements to previous versions of the lame frontend for the Windows operating [...]

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Categories: Music and Video

Billy a simple but awesome music player

We had a look at how you use your medial player not long ago and I’ve taken a look at some of the ones you mentioned  I particularly liked Billy (thanks for the tip Xaro), a no-frills (but also no complications) music player, which does exactly what I want it to do. Play my music [...]

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Categories: Music and Video, Tools

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 30th, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Free Legal Music Downloads: In China

Downloading music is illegal, right? That’s what the Music Industry is telling us all the time. They sue people who download music and do everything in their might to keep up the image that music downloading is a major crime.This is however apparently not true in China where Google struck a deal with major players [...]

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Categories: Music Industry, Music and Video

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