Re: Moving From ProTools to Linux? Good or bad?

On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:22:46 +0000, Mike Rivers wrote:

<snip>
don't even know how to "install" something on Linux yet.

It turns out that there are many ways to install something, all
dependent on what
distribution you have. In this one, there's an Add/Remove item on the
menu which
is how (at least one way) of installing software with this system. But
unlike those
crippled home computers where you find the program (either as a download
or on a disk) and then click on it to install it, with this one, it goes
out and finds the
program on the Internet if it isn't already on the local disk waitning
to be installed,
downloads it if it's coming from the ether somewhere, and then installs
it. It actually
works pretty well, but it's pretty generic with its searching.

I think the 'add/remove programs' defaults to only showing the software
that Canonical (Ubuntu's owners) maintain.

If you click on the 'show' box at the top of the window, you can set it
to 'All available applications'.


For instance, I can't make heads or tails of any of the various media
players that came with this
distribution. I just wanted to see if it would play a CD, so I thought
that there might be
a Linux version of Winamp, with which I'm familar. It gave me a choice
of several
media players, none of which were Winamp, none of which I exect were any
better
than what I already had. But something's broken. It won't mount a CD,
but if I ignore
the error message, I can find and read files from a disk. But with an
audio CD in the
drive, it comes up with an error about not being able to find
"sound-juicer." That's
apparently a CD ripper. I don't want to rip the CD, I just want to
listen to it. Apparently
the system is set up to run that when it finds an audio CD, and I
haven't yet stumbled
on where that's designated so I can change it, either to something that
I know is on
the system or to not do anything and let me choose the probram.

Sound Juicer is for both ripping and listening to audio CDs.
It's a nice simple program. Worth installing.

If you want to use a different program to listen to the CD, right click
on the audio CD icon (which appears on the desktop when you insert a CD)
and select 'Open with'.
.

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