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amaroK & Magnatune

Posted by Mark | Filed under Music, Software

As has been noted on this blog mul­ti­ple times, I use Linux. Specif­i­cally, I use SuSE Linux. For my desk­top envi­ron­ment, I use KDE. There are sev­eral music play­ers avail­able for KDE but the one that is far & away the best is amaroK. It’s got some great orga­ni­za­tional tools, a cover man­ager and can even copy songs to your iPod. It rocks and if you lis­ten to music under Linux; you’re miss­ing out if you’re still using XMMS.

Another thing I like is Mag­natune. This is a web­site that allows you to lis­ten to MP3s of all the albums they offer for sale as CDs, plus they let you pod­cast with their music with­out pay­ing for some ridicu­lous license. They’ve got a wide selec­tion of music (e.g. blues, ambi­ent, rock, medieval, etc…) and when I’m look­ing for some­thing new to lis­ten to; they’re the first place I go.

In fact tonight, I started pok­ing around their site for some new music when I ran across this post on their founder’s blog:

A few months ago, the devel­op­ers of amaroK (the amaz­ingly gor­geous music player for Linux and Unix, that really does give iTunes a run for its money) asked me about Mag­natune coop­er­at­ing on their new release of their ver­sion 1.3. Their idea was to make a self-booting linux image, that boots into a linux desk­top, with amaroK run­ning and some Mag­natune music included.

It’s like Reese’s Peanut But­ter cups, they’re get­ting peanut but­ter (Mag­natunes) mixed in with my choco­late (amaroK)! Nice move peo­ple! :D

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