Trying to DUMP Windows.... But

[Derek Broughton]

Mark Haney wrote:

> Of course it can do all that.  I ONLY use Linux. I can convert from any
> format to any other format (including the dreaded M4B files in linux.
> You only have 32,000+ songs?  I have 1.2TB of MP3, ogg and flac files at
> home and while I can catalog all that in Amarok if I want, I run icecast
>  in the house from my MP3 jukebox server.

Nice to hear.  As I noted, I don't have anything like that much multimedia
content - primarily because I don't have the bandwidth to download it. 
Given that I hope to have the bandwidth later this year (but don't expect
to get anywhere near terabytes) I was interested in the response.

> K3B can burn any mix of songs you want.  There are others, but it's my
> favorite.

Mine too.
> 
> I believe Amarok does sound levelling, I use Audacity for that.

Nobody will ever figure out everything Amarok does, because there's always a
new script/plugin!  I hadn't heard it could do sound levelling, and use
Audacity for that :-)
> 
> Seriously, there's nothing here that apps in linux can't do that Windows
> can.  It's not so much about having a 'clone' app for these things. IE
> there's no direct linux version of WMP but then who really wants that?  :)

There's very, very, few things you _can't_ do in Linux that you can do in
Windows.  The few times there's an issue it's usually a question of whether
you can do it _easily_ or if somebody is going to have to do a a lot of
tweaking, probably at the command line. 

> I suggest you play with a virtual machine install of linux (any distro)
> or try as LIveCD or LIveDVD version of a distro before going much
> farther.  There is a learning curve here and it's best if you go in
> knowing that and being patient.

I am getting more and more fond of virtual machines.  I run Linux machines
in Windows, Windows machines in Linux, Linux machines in Linux.  VMs rock!
-- 
derek