August 2007
How To Convert Songs From An Audio CD Into MP3/Ogg Files With K3b | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
(via)This guide describes how you can use the CD/DVD burning application K3b to convert songs from an audio CD into MP3 or Ogg files that you can use on your MP3 player, for example (if you choose the Ogg format, your MP3 player must support it).
How To Manage An iPod From A Linux Desktop With gtkpod | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
(via)This article shows how you can use an iPod on a Linux desktop with gtkpod (a graphical user interface for Apple's iPod). It covers how you can upload MP3 files from your desktop to your iPod, download MP3 files from your iPod to your desktop, how you can delete files on the iPod, and how you can create and modify playlists. Normally, Apple's iTunes software is needed to manage an iPod, but iTunes is not available for Linux. Fortunately, there are Linux alternatives such as gtkpod that can handle the task.
Share Your Music Collection With gnump3d | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
(via)Gnump3d is a streaming server that can help you share your music collection with others. Although the name is using mp3 it can serve ogg as well, so you don't have to convert all your mp3 files to ogg files.
February 2007
Run Your Own Webradio Station With Icecast2 And Ices2 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
(via)This tutorial describes how to set up an audio streaming server with Icecast2. In order that Icecast2 can stream audio to listeners we install Ices2. Ices2 is a program that sends audio data to an Icecast2 server to broadcast to clients. Ices2 can either read audio data from disk (Ogg Vorbis files), or sample live audio from a sound card and encode it on the fly. In this article we will let Ices2 read .ogg files from the local hard disk.
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