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From: Josiah Jenkins 
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Subject: Re: Ubuntu machine on the way Friday
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Whilst perusing Usenet on Thu, 8 Mar 2007 06:11:59 +0000 (UTC), I read
these words from Moog  :

>Josiah Jenkins illuminated the devils arse on Wed, 07 Mar 2007
>20:58:14 +0000, by typing:
>
>> (After re-writing the ID tags on 7,000 mp3s, I'm probably
>> quicker doing it that way)
>
>Errmm...silly question Joseph, but why not simply enable mp3
> support in Ubuntu?

I did . . . had ! I'm in the middle of a totally clean re-install.
I didn't think moving /home to another partition had worked
properly so I re-formatted that partition . . . . . . . . Ooops !
>
>Do you really need to transfer your files to .ogg and edit
>all the tags?

No ! There's no way I ever go through that again !
It took me a whole Winter to rip all my CDs, LPs and
some of the Audio Cassettes and 8-track tapes I had
and tidy up the ID tags.

(Younger readers will probably ask, 'Wot's an 8-track ?')

I only converted about a dozen tracks from mp3 to ogg.
Just so that I have a small selection of various file formats
available to see what works and what doesn't.

I believe that, for instance, .flv is a no-no under Linux.

-- jjj
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