Music ?

[Chris]

On Sat, 16 May 2009 23:28:02 -0400
Rick <rick0009 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 16 May 2009 20:41:48 -0500
> Chris <racerx at makeworld.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 16 May 2009 20:41:34 -0400
> > Rick <rick0009 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Have a massive audio collection, 800GB of wma, .mp3, flac...
> > > now that I am using linux (ubuntu), would like know,
> > > what is the best app for managing such a large collection,
> > > that offers allot details, like meta-data, custom fields (tags),
> > > and music art.
> > > 
> > > Major Thank!
> > > 
> > > Rick
> > > 
> > 
> > I like Amarok. That being said however, you might want to consider
> > which version. The new (2.x w/Ubu 9.04) has one thing that I like
> > as a default install - MySQL as the database.
> > 
> > That being said, I HATE 2.x - I have opted to install Amarok 1.4 -
> > the drawback with that is the base install uses sqlite. That's Ok
> > if you have a small collection. So - I use the wiki that walks you
> > through setting up MySQL as the database. As if you had not gotten
> > the point of why use MySQL - it will handle your large collection
> > and will be much much faster then the default SQLite (Of course,
> > that is if you opt for the later version of Amarok).
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> does this work well, in ubuntu 9.04?
> is this a KDE app?
> 
> Rick
> 

Yes, yes, and yes.

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Best regards,

Chris

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