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Music, Video, and Photos

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Music

When you insert an Audio <acronym>CD</acronym> into Kubuntu, the system will recognize it, mount it, and then ask you what you would like to do with the <acronym>CD</acronym>. To play the <acronym>CD</acronym>, select <guilabel>Play Audio CD with Amarok</guilabel> and then press the <guibutton>OK</guibutton> button. If you would like to always play Audio <acronym>CD</acronym>s with <application>Amarok</application>, select the <guilabel>Always do this for this type of media</guilabel> and then press the <guibutton>OK</guibutton>. If you are connected to the Internet, <application>Amarok</application> will retrieve the <acronym>CD</acronym> artist, title, and track data from <ulink url="http://freedb.org">freedb.org</ulink>. If lyrics are available for the song currently playing, select the <guilabel>Lyrics</guilabel> tab. You can also retrieve artist information from <ulink url="http://www.wikipedia.org">Wikipedia</ulink> by selecting the <guilabel>Artist</guilabel> tab.

Ripping Audio CDs

When you insert an Audio <acronym>CD</acronym> into Kubuntu, the system will recognize it, mount it, and then ask you what you would like to do with the <acronym>CD</acronym>. Choose <guilabel>Extract and Encode Audio Tracks</guilabel> and then press the <guibutton>OK</guibutton>. This will open <application>K3b</application>, the <acronym>CD</acronym> and <acronym>DVD</acronym> Kreator, providing you with various options.

Inside <application>K3b</application>, select what tracks you want to rip. All tracks are selected by default.

No MP3 Support by Default

The <acronym>MP3</acronym> protocol is a restricted protocol. In order to utilize it with <application>K3b</application>, please refer to the information at the end of this procedure.

<guilabel>File Naming</guilabel> - provides settings for file naming pattern, playlist pattern, as well as the ability to remove blanks with a user configurable character.

<guilabel>Advanced</guilabel> - provides settings for paranoia, read retries, and others.

Select the <guilabel>Filetype</guilabel> from the <guilabel>Options</guilabel> tab. To the right of the filetype is a blue gear, select that for advanced settings for the filetype selected.

<emphasis role="strong">Ogg Vorbis</emphasis> - Ogg Vorbis is a patent-free lossy audio compression format which typically produces higher quality and greater compression than MP3. See the <ulink url="http://www.vorbis.com/faq/">Vorbis website</ulink> for more information.

<emphasis role="strong">FLAC</emphasis> - FLAC is the Free Lossless Audio Codec. It can compress audio files up to 50% without removing any information from the audio stream. For more information on this format, see the <ulink url="http://flac.sourceforge.net/">FLAC homepage</ulink> on sourceforge.net.

<emphasis role="strong">WAV</emphasis> - Wav is an uncompressed audio format, which can be compressed into OGG Vorbis or a codec of your choice. It is often used while working on sound in applications like Audacity, before being compressed.

<application>K3b</application> can extract audio files to the following formats: <placeholder-1/>

You can also extract CD audio files to the proprietary non-free <emphasis role="strong">MP3</emphasis> format by using the lame encoder. Install the <application>lame</application> to enable recording to the <acronym>MP3</acronym> protocol. Please refer to the <ulink type="help" url="help:/kubuntu/add-applications/">Adding Applications</ulink> documentation for help with installing applications.

You can still play your old MP3 files by installing MP3 support (see <xref linkend="codecs"/>). Instructions for other formats, such as Windows Media Audio (wma/wmv) and other patent encumbered formats can be located in the Ubuntu community documentation at <ulink url="http://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats"/>.

<application>Amarok</application> has an inbuilt ID3 tag editor that can edit the metadata on your OGG and other music files. Please see the <ulink type="help" url="help:/amarok">Amarok Handbook</ulink>.

To transfer music files to and from an iPod, you can use <application>Amarok</application> as well. Please see the <ulink type="help" url="help:/amarok">Amarok Handbook</ulink> on how to manage media files in your iPod.

Audacity is a free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. To use Audacity:

For further help about using <application>Audacity</application>, consult the program's help by choosing <menuchoice><guimenu>Help</guimenu><guisubmenu>Contents</guisubmenu></menuchoice> from within <application>Audacity</application>.

Video

Many video formats can be played in Kubuntu using free codecs found in the repositories. This includes formats such as MPEG, AVI, and RM(Real Media). To install further codec support see <xref linkend="codecs"/>.

The movie players provided in Kubuntu are capable of reading DVDs that are not encrypted. However, most commercial DVDs are encrypted with CSS (Content Scrambling System) and currently, for legal reasons, it is not possible to include support for these DVDs in Kubuntu. However, it is possible to enable support as follows:

For more information pertaining to the proprietary application <application>RealPlayer</application>, please refer to the Ubuntu community documentation at <ulink url="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RealplayerInstallationMethods"/>.

Multimedia Codecs

Some of these packages may not be permitted in some countries: you should verify that you are permitted to use them before installing them.

Burning an Audio CD/DVD

If you want to burn MP3 files into audio CDs, you will need to install the <application>libk3b2-extracodecs</application> package. Please refer to the <ulink type="help" url="help:/kubuntu/add-applications/">Adding Applications</ulink> document for help on installing applications.

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Install the following packages <placeholder-1/> . Please refer to the <ulink type="help" url="help:/kubuntu/add-applications/">Adding Applications</ulink> document for help on installing applications.

Follow the <ulink type="help" url="help:/k3b/howtos.html#videointroduction">How to rip a DVD and encode it into an MPEG-4 AVI with K3b</ulink> located in the K3b Handbook.

Generate MD5 Checksum files

Check MD5 checksum of an ISO image

Assuming that <filename>file.iso</filename> and <filename>file.iso.md5</filename> are in the same folder, type the following at the command prompt and then press the <keycap>Enter</keycap> key: <screen> md5sum -c file.iso.md5 </screen>

Mount/unmount Image (ISO) files without burning to CD

To mount Image (ISO) file type the following at the command prompt, pressing the <keycap>Enter</keycap> key after every line: <screen> sudo mkdir /media/iso sudo modprobe loop sudo mount file.iso /media/iso/ -t iso9660 -o loop </screen>

To unmount Image (ISO) file type the following at the command prompt and then press the <keycap>Enter</keycap> key: <screen> sudo umount /media/iso/ </screen>

Graphics &amp; Drawing

Kubuntu has some very powerful, world-class graphics and drawing applications available.