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Whether you want to play, rip, edit or organize your music, Ubuntu has the tools you need.

<application>Rhythmbox</application> supports many useful features, some of which are turned off by default. For example, it can show the album cover of the song currently being played, or share music with others.

Ubuntu provides a wide range of tools for all of your audio playing, editing and recording needs.

If you have music files which have incorrect or incomplete information about the artist or album which they are from, install <application>Cowbell Music Organizer</application>. Cowbell allows you to edit track details, and can automatically correct track information for many CDs.

Use a different music player

Listen to Podcasts

Podcasts are a way of listening to music and radio shows broadcast on the Internet. Thousands of different shows are available, such as <ulink url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/waystolisten/podcasts/">BBC Radio</ulink>, <ulink url="http://www.lugradio.org/">LugRadio</ulink> and <ulink url="http://www.thenakedscientists.com">The Naked Scientists</ulink>. The Rhythmbox Music Player is able to play podcasts. See the <ulink type="help" url="ghelp:rhythmbox#podcast">Rhythmbox manual</ulink> for more information.

To edit audio, install <ulink url="http://www.jokosher.org/">Jokosher</ulink> or <ulink url="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/">Audacity</ulink>. Jokosher is able to record audio as well as edit it, and Audacity provides many powerful sound-editing features.

Install a full suite of multimedia editing applications

If you would like to turn your computer into a multimedia production suite, why not consider installing <ulink url="http://ubuntustudio.org/">Ubuntu Studio</ulink>? It provides a large selection of applications for creating audio, video and graphics.

In order to play DVDs, you must install some additional software. Unfortunately, DVD support cannot be provided by default in Ubuntu due to legal and technical restrictions.

Many commercial DVDs are <emphasis>encrypted</emphasis> and so require the use of <emphasis>decryption</emphasis> software in order to play them. In some countries, the use of such decryption software is not permitted by law. Verify that you are within your rights in using it.

Install the following packages (see <ulink type="help" url="ghelp:add-applications">Add Applications</ulink>):

For the <application>Mplayer</application> plugin, install the <application>mozilla-mplayer</application> package.

For the <application>VLC</application> plugin, install the <application>mozilla-plugin-vlc</application> package.

What is a codec?

Watch a slideshow of photos

Setting a Slideshow as Your Screensaver

You can use a slideshow of your photos as you screensaver:

Press <menuchoice><guimenu>System</guimenu><guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem><guimenuitem>Screensaver</guimenuitem></menuchoice>

Select the <guilabel>F-Spot photos</guilabel> screensaver theme

If you would like to change which tag is used for the slideshow:

Press <menuchoice><guimenuitem>Edit</guimenuitem><guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem></menuchoice>

Under <guilabel>Screensaver</guilabel>, select the desired tag

Printing your photos is great way to share them with others.

Under <guilabel>Format for</guilabel>, select the printer which you are going to use

Under <guilabel>Orientation</guilabel>, choose the orientation of the photo on the paper

Print Quality

PhotoPrint allows you to fine-tune your printing settings.

Under <guilabel>Page Size</guilabel>, change the page size to the size of paper that you want to print onto.

Sharing your photos

Resizing photos

Press <guilabel>Scale</guilabel> to resize the photo

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