Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.

[Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <dystopianray@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 25 October 2006 22:08, Robin Atwood wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 October 2006 17:49, Dale wrote:
> > I have never done any of this before.  Somehow, likely by mistake, I got
> > one CD copied over and can play off the hard drive.  I have no idea how
> > I did this really.  I need someone on or off list to teach me how to get
> > the music off the CD, get it into Amarok so I get get this going.  This
> > looks really cool.
> >
> > If whoever can help me uses MySql instead, I would be willing to install
> > it, especially if it is better.  I only want to do CDs.  I have a lousy
> > dial-up connection here.
>
> By default amarok uses a built-in copy of SQlite, so you don't really need
> MySQL unless you use it for something else. Postgres is not supported. Rip
> your CDs with k3b.

An easy way to rip cds is to go to 'audiocd://' in konqueror, then it will 
show some folders containing mp3s, oggs and flac files which you can then 
copy and paste to whereever you want and the cd ripping and encoding will be 
handled transparently for you.

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Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
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