- •Introducing Ubuntu
- •About Open Source
- •Free Software Movement, Open Source and Linux
- •The Free Software Movement
- •The Open Source Movement and Linux
- •About Ubuntu
- •The Ubuntu Promise
- •Ubuntu Versions
- •Ubuntu Derivatives
- •Ubuntu Development and the Community
- •Ubuntu and Microsoft Windows: Key Differences
- •Installation
- •Applications
- •Lesson Summary
- •Review Exercise
- •Exploring the Ubuntu Desktop
- •Ubuntu Desktop Components
- •Changing the Default Language
- •Creating a User Account and Fast User Switching
- •Adding/Removing Applications
- •Desktop Effects - Compiz Fusion
- •Lesson Summary
- •Review Exercise
- •Lab Exercise
- •Using the Internet
- •Connecting to and Using the Internet
- •Network Manager
- •Using a Cable Connection
- •Using a Wireless Card
- •Browsing the Web
- •Using an RSS feed reader
- •Liferea Newsreader
- •Using Evolution Mail
- •Instant Messaging
- •Making Phone Calls Using Softphones
- •Using Ekiga
- •Skype
- •Lesson Summary
- •Review Exercise
- •Lab Exercise
- •Performing Basic Spreadsheet Tasks
- •Performing Basic Drawing Operations
- •Creating and Editing Formulae
- •Additional Applications
- •GnuCash Accounting
- •Lesson Summary
- •Review Exercise
- •Lab Exercise
- •Ubuntu and Games
- •Installing Games on Ubuntu
- •Installing a Game from a Repository
- •Playing Ubuntu Games
- •Playing PlanetPenguin Racer
- •Playing Other Popular Games
- •Installing Wine
- •Playing a Microsoft Windows Game on Ubuntu
- •Lesson Summary
- •Review Exercise
- •Lab Exercise
- •Customising the Desktop and Applications
- •Introduction
- •Customising the Desktop
- •Changing the Background
- •Customising the Theme (Buttons & icons etc)
- •Customising a Screensaver
- •Customising the Screen Resolution
- •Working with Files Using Nautilus
- •Features of Nautilus
- •Nautilus
- •Package Managers
- •Types of Package Managers
- •Using Add/Remove Applications
- •Using Synaptic Package Manager
- •Installing a Single Package File
- •Installing/Uninstalling Debian Packages
- •Software Repositories
- •Software Repository Categories
- •Adding New Language Settings
- •Lesson Summary
- •Review Exercise
- •Lab Exercise
- •Making The Most of Images and Photos
- •Introducing Graphics Applications
- •Viewing and Managing Photos with F-Spot
- •Viewing Photos
- •Organising Photos
- •Removing Red Eye
- •The GIMP
- •Drawing with Inkscape
- •Installing Inkscape
- •Creating Vector Graphic Images Using InkScape
- •Using a Scanner
- •Checking Scanner Compatibility
- •Scanning an Image
- •Lesson Summary
- •Review Exercise
- •Lab Exercise
- •Playing Music and Videos
- •Legal Restrictions
- •Playing Music Files
- •Playing Music using Rhythmbox
- •Playing and Extracting Audio CDs
- •Playing Audio CDs
- •Extracting Audio CDs
- •Burning Audio CDs
- •Playing Proprietary Multimedia Formats
- •Using an iPod
- •Playing Music Using an iPod
- •Creating and Editing Audio Files
- •Creating Audio Files
- •Editing Audio Files
- •Playing DVDs
- •Playing DVDs in Totem Movie Player
- •Backing up DVDs
- •Playing Online Media
- •Watching Videos in a Web Browser
- •Editing Videos
- •Editing videos using Pitivi video editor
- •Lesson Summary
- •Review Exercise
- •Lab Exercise
- •Ubuntu Help and Support
- •Introduction
- •System Documentation
- •Online Documentation
- •Community Support
- •Mailing Lists
- •Web Forums
- •IRC Channels
- •LoCo Teams
- •The Ubuntu Team Wiki
- •Launchpad
- •Launchpad Technical Answers
- •Launchpad Bug Tracker: Malone
- •Shipit
- •The Fridge
- •Paid For Commercial Services
- •Professional Support Services from Canonical
- •The Canonical Marketplace
- •Lesson Summary
- •Review Exercise
- •Partitioning and Booting
- •What is Partitioning
- •Creating a Partition
- •Installing GParted by Using Synaptic Package Manager
- •Partitioning Using Gparted
- •Boot-up Options
- •Changing the Default Operating System at Boot
- •Lesson Summary
- •Review Exercise
- •Lab Exercise
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Figure 8.49: Changes Applied Notification
13.The check box corresponding to the recently installed software package has changed to green, indicating that the software has been installed successfully. You can repeat the same procedure to install all the multimedia codecs required for playing proprietary multimedia formats.
Figure 8.50: Software Successfully Installed
8.6 Using an iPod
The iPod is a popular portable media player, designed and marketed by Apple. You can play music in MP3 and AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) audio file formats and store up to ten thousand songs on the device itself. The iPod does not support free multimedia formats.
8.6.1Playing Music Using an iPod
1.Plug your iPod into one of your computer’s USB ports. Ubuntu automatically mounts it and places it as an icon on your desktop. Simultaneously, the iPod device opens in the Rhythmbox Music Player window. You can view all the files loaded
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on your iPod device in the lower right pane of the Rhythmbox window. To play a music track from your iPod, just select the track from the list and click the Play button.
Figure 8.51: Plugging in an iPod
2.The song starts playing in the Rhythmbox Music Player. However, if the format of the music file is not supported by the Rhythmbox Music Player, you may not be able to play the file and you will receive an error message. In this case, you will need to follow the procedure described in the previous section to download all the necessary software codecs from the Ubuntu repositories.
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Figure 8.52: Playing Music from iPod
3.Ubuntu also allows you to transfer music files to and from the iPod device. However, this is not possible using Rhythmbox. You will need to install the gtkpod software to be able to transfer music file between your computer and the iPod device. You can easily download this software from the Universe repository using the Synaptic Package Manager.
To access gtkpod, after it is successfully installed on your computer, on the Applications menu, point to Sound & Video and then click gtkpod. The gtkpod window opens.
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Figure 8.53: Launching gtkpod
4.You can view all the music files stored on the iPod device in this gtkpod window. Notice that in the gtkpod interface, your music files have automatically been categorised based on artists, album and genre. This categorisation helps you quickly browse through your collection and select.
You can use the gtkpod interface to manage the files on your iPod in multiple ways. You can create and edit playlists, normalize the volume on single tracks or multiple tracks at a time. You can also use the gtkpod interface to add more files in your iPod or transfer files from your iPod onto your computer. To add files from your computer to your iPod device, click Files. This displays the Add Files to ’device name’ dialogue box.
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Figure 8.54: Using gtkpod to transfer files to iPod
5.In the Add Files to ’device name’ dialogue box, navigate down to the folder from which you want to add the files to your iPod. Depending on your preferences you may either add a single file at a time or an entire directory. Select the tracks that you want added and click Open.
Figure 8.55: Selecting the Files to Transfer