Just a few questions' on Linux > About music files and player?

Question

I have over 2 gig's of music on my computer, I am about to switch to Linux (kubuntu) and all the music is mp3
Can i put my music in a file on my linux OS desktop or something like that?
Will the linux player still play my music if i transfer it to my linux?


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Thanks

Im going to format my harddrive ... install linux completely! No windows!

Answer 1

Depending what Linux OS you get, it may or may not come with built in support for MP3s.
Today I noticed that Fedora (Red Hat also) does not come with MP3 support due to 'legal reasons'.
You'll be able to download MP3 codecs and a decent player. I'll get round to that myself sometime.

Also, out of interest, which Linux distro are you planning to install?

Answer 2

I would make sure you have the music all backed up on CD's (should only take 4 or 5 for about 2GB), then after installing Linux you should be able to copy the music back over. If you are using kubuntu, try using the amarok media player.

You will need to add the akode-mpeg and gstreamer0.8-mad packages to play mp3s.

Answer 3

You have a number of players on linux that will play mp3s.... all you have to do is put in a folder... and select the player you like most. I used Banshee and RealPlayer. One can use XMMS but you have to get one with mp3 support.... many distros disable MP3s in XMMS, because of the problems with copyright of the format. That being said you can recompile the binaries to support mp3s or you can convert your files to Ogg Vorbis.

This is easily done by running the "lame --decode" command to convert the mp3 to a Wav file and then running "oggenc" to convert the file to Ogg Vorbis.

Personally I have a quick and dirty REXX command to do the conversion that I wrote... I am an old OS/2 user so I added Rexx scripting to the system.

Answer 4

You should be able to play them, as long linux can get to them.

Are dual booting or switching cold turkey? Not important to the answer, just asking. As long as you don't reformat and linux does not over-write the files with something else, you should be ok.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

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