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<title>Playing Music and Videos</title>
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<title>Objectives</title>
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<para>In this lesson, you will learn to: <itemizedlist>
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<para>In this lesson, you will learn to:</para></formalpara>
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<para>Play, edit and organize music and video files.</para>
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</itemizedlist> <note userlevel="instructor">
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<note userlevel="instructor">
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<title>Instructor Notes:</title>
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<para><emphasis role="italic">It is recommended to cover all the
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<para>Ubuntu fully supports playback of music, videos and DVDs available
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in free and unrestricted formats. A number of multimedia formats are
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restricted by licenses and software patents in some jurisdictions. Ubuntu
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does not offer out-of-the-box support for these formats. It is possible to
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enable playing the proprietary formats in Ubuntu, you must do so after
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considering the patent and copyright restrictions guiding the use of the
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does not offer this capability by default for these formats but it easy
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to enable playing a variety of proprietary formats. This section will guide you
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through the patent and copyright restriction considerations for using
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proprietary file formats.</para>
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<para>The license of the format is different from the license of the
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<para>Depending on your requirements and preferences, you can
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activate these plugins to get extra functionality in your Rhythmbox.
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For example, activating <emphasis role="strong">Magnatune
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For example, the <emphasis role="strong">Magnatune
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Store</emphasis> plugin enables iTunes-style song previews and paid
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downloads. Activating <emphasis
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role="strong">Visualization</emphasis> renders a real-time
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<para>Insert an audio CD in the CD drive of your computer. The Sound
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Juicer CD player and ripper is launched automatically. To start
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Sound Juicer manually. On the <emphasis
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Sound Juicer manually, click the <emphasis
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role="strong">Applications</emphasis> menu, point to <emphasis
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role="strong">Sound & Video</emphasis> and then click <emphasis
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role="strong">Sound Juicer CD Extractor</emphasis>.</para>
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role="strong">Audio CD Extractor</emphasis>.</para>
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<title>Launching Sound Juicer</title>
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<title>Burning Audio CDs</title>
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<para>Besides copying audio tracks from a CD to your computer, Ubuntu also
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enables you to copy music files from your computer onto a CD. Serpentine
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is the audio CD burner application that comes bundled with Ubuntu, by
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default. It is an easy-to-use but very powerful CD audio recording
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enables you to copy music files from your computer onto a CD or DVD. Brasero
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is the CD/DVD burner application that comes bundled with Ubuntu, by
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default. It is an easy-to-use application that also allows CD/DVD data disc creation,
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CD/DVD copying and burning of existing images to CD/DVD.</para>
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<title>To burn an audio CD using Serpentine:</title>
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<para>Insert a blank (recordable) CD in the CD drive of your computer.
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You will receive a notification asking whether you want to burn a data
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CD or an audio CD. When you click the <emphasis role="strong">Make
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Audio CD</emphasis> button, Serpentine will be launched
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automatically.</para>
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<title>Auto-launching Serpentine</title>
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<imagedata fileref="images/chapter9_image_031.png" format="PNG"
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<para>Alternatively, you can launch Serpentine through the <emphasis
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role="strong">Applications</emphasis> menu. To launch Serpentine
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manually, on the <emphasis role="strong">Applications</emphasis> menu,
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<title>To burn an audio CD:</title>
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<para>Launch Brasero by selecting the <emphasis role="strong">Applications</emphasis> menu,
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point to <emphasis role="strong">Sound & Video</emphasis> and then
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click <emphasis role="strong">Serpentine Audio CD Creator</emphasis>.
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The <emphasis role="strong">Serpentine</emphasis> window is
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click <emphasis role="strong">Brasero Disc Burning</emphasis>.
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The Brasero window is displayed.</para>
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<title>Launching Serpentine</title>
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<title>Launching Brasero</title>
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<para>The <emphasis role="strong">Serpentine Window</emphasis>
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displays the disc usage of the inserted disc graphically as well as in
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words. You can now click the <emphasis role="strong">Add</emphasis>
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button to start adding the tracks that you want to be copied to the
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disk. However, if you want to change the default configuration
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settings for Serpentine before burning the audio CD, open the
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<emphasis role="strong">Serpentine Preferences</emphasis> dialogue box
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by clicking <emphasis role="strong">Preferences</emphasis> on the
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<emphasis role="strong">Edit</emphasis> menu.</para>
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<para>The <emphasis role="strong">Brasero Window</emphasis>
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displays. Click the <emphasis role="strong">Audio Project</emphasis>
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button. You will need to navigate to the folder containing the audio tracks
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you wish to add to the new CD project.</para>
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<title>Displaying Configuration Settings</title>
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<title>Starting a new Audio Project</title>
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<imagedata fileref="images/chapter9_image_033.png" format="PNG"
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<para>You can use the <emphasis role="strong">Serpentine
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Preferences</emphasis> window to specify the writing speed for burning
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CD and to define some writing options such as whether to insert two
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seconds gap between two tracks or to eject the CD after recording is
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complete. After defining your preferences, click <emphasis
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role="strong">Close</emphasis> to apply the changes and exit the
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<emphasis role="strong">Serpentine Preferences</emphasis>
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<title>Customising Preferences</title>
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<title>The New Audio Project window</title>
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<para>Now you need to specify the files that you want to be copied on
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the inserted CD. To start specifying the desired audio files, click
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<emphasis role="strong">Add</emphasis>. This opens a browser window.
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In the browser window, navigate to the desired folder and click
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<emphasis role="strong">Open</emphasis> to display its
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<para>Now you need to specify the files that you want to be copied onto
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the blank CD. To start specifying the desired audio files, click the
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<emphasis role="strong">Music</emphasis> folder. This displays the contents of any items
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previously imported. Double-click the title of the folder where the music files are located.
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The files are listed in the middle window. You can now add files to the project using any of
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the methods described in the right side window.</para>
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<title>Specifying Audio Files to Copy</title>
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<para>Select the specific audio files that you want to be copied and
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click <emphasis role="strong">Open</emphasis>. You are returned to the
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<emphasis role="strong">Serpentine</emphasis> window.</para>
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<title>Selecting the Files to Copy</title>
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<step performance="required">
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<para>The selected files now appear in the Serpentine window. You can
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<para>The selected files now appear in the project window. You can
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also view the estimated disc usage once these files are written to the
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disc. Based on this data, you may decide to add or delete some files
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from your current selection. Once you are sure of the files to be
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copied to the disc, click the <emphasis role="strong">Write to
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Disc</emphasis> button to start writing the audio files from your
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disc at the bottom of the project window. Based on this data, you may decide
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to add or delete some files from your current selection. Once you are sure of
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the files to be copied to the disc, click the <emphasis role="strong">Burn</emphasis>
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button to start writing the audio files from your
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computer to the CD.</para>
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<step performance="required">
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<para>You are asked to confirm your decision to record a media disc.
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Click <emphasis role="strong">Write to Disc</emphasis> to
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<para>The Disc Burning Setup window allows you to change the Properties
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of the project. You can select the <emphasis role="strong">Options</emphasis>
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checkbox to leave the disc open to add a data session later.
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Click the <emphasis role="strong">Burn</emphasis> button to
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begin writing the files to the disc.</para>
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<title>Confirming the CD Writing</title>
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<para>Serpentine now starts writing the music files to the media disc.
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You can view the progress of the process in the <emphasis
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role="strong">Writing Audio Disc</emphasis> dialogue box. This process
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<para>Brasero now starts writing the music files to the media disc.
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You can view the progress in the <emphasis
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role="strong">Burning Audio Disc</emphasis> dialogue box. This process
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may take some time depending on the size of the files to be written to
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disc. Once the process is complete, you get a new CD containing all
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disc. Once the process is complete, you have a new CD containing all
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your favourite songs.</para>
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<title>Writing Audio CD</title>
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<title>Writing an Audio CD</title>
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<para>As previously stated, due to the legal restrictions associated with
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the use of proprietary formats, Ubuntu does not offer support for such
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formats by default. If you wish to play such proprietary formats, you will
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formats by default. If you wish to play proprietary formats, you will
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need to install additional multimedia codecs. A multimedia codec is a
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small piece of software that allows you to watch videos or listen to music
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of a specific format. Although Ubuntu includes many codecs by default, you
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<title>Creating Audio Files</title>
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<para>Ubuntu provides you with tools to create new audio files using an
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input device such as a microphone. GNOME Sound Recorder is the default
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input device such as a microphone. Sound Recorder is the default
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application available in Ubuntu for creating audio files.</para>
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<title>To start recording audio using GNOME Sound Recorder:</title>
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<title>To start recording audio using Sound Recorder:</title>
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<para>On the <emphasis role="strong">Applications</emphasis> menu,
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point to <emphasis role="strong">Sound & Video</emphasis> and
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then click <emphasis role="strong">Sound Recorder</emphasis>.
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Alternatively, you can just press <emphasis
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role="strong">ALT+F2</emphasis>, type <emphasis role="strong">
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GNOME-sound-recorder</emphasis> and click <emphasis
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role="strong">Run.</emphasis> The <emphasis role="strong">Sound
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Recorder</emphasis> is launched.</para>
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<title>Launching Sound Recorder</title>
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<para>The Sound Recorder allows you to record and play .flac, .ogg,
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<para>Sound Recorder allows you to record and play .flac, .ogg,
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and .wav audio files. To start a recording session, you need to
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select an input device, such as a microphone, phone or line-in, from
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the <emphasis role="strong">Record from input</emphasis> drop-down
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<title>Editing Audio Files</title>
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<para>You can use Audacity for editing audio files. However, Audacity is
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not included in the default installation of Ubuntu. But it is a free and
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<para>You can use Audacity for editing audio files. Audacity is
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not included in the default installation of Ubuntu but it is a free and
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open source software application, which can be installed easily from the
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Universe repository of Ubuntu. Therefore, you will first need to install
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Universe repository of Ubuntu. You can install
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Audacity using either the Add/Remove Applications or the Synaptic
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Package Manger.</para>
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to select a language to use with the application. Apart from
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English, Audacity provides language support for more than 30
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languages, including Arabic, Bulgarian, catalan, Czech, Danish,
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Finnish and many more. Select the language of your preference from
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Finnish and many more. Select your language preference from
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the <emphasis role="strong">Choose Language for Audacity to
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use</emphasis> drop-down list and click <emphasis
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<title>Playing DVDs</title>
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<para>By default, Ubuntu is capable of playing DVDs that are not
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scrambled. Most commercial DVDs are scrambled with the Content Scrambling
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<para>Most commercial DVDs are encrypted with the Content Scrambling
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System (CSS), which attempts to restrict the sotware that can play a DVD.
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Due to legal restrictions surrounding the scrambled format, as well as
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Ubuntu's total commitment to free multimedia formats, some software
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By default, Ubuntu is capable of playing DVDs that are not encrypted.
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Due to legal restrictions surrounding the CSS format, as well as
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Ubuntu's commitment to free multimedia formats, some software
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packages needed for encrypted DVD playback are not installed by default in
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Ubuntu. You can install these packages from Ubuntu repositories to enable
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the playback of scrambled DVDs.</para>
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the playback of encrypted DVDs.</para>
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<title>Note:</title>
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<para>It is possible that the use of some of the following software to
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play or copy DVDs is not permitted by law in some countries. Please
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clarify your rights before proceeding.</para>
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check your rights before proceeding.</para>
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<para>You may also consider downloading the following additional
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<para>Totem-gstreamer, the default movie player included in Ubuntu can
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<para>Totem Movie Player, the default movie player included in Ubuntu can
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automatically play a DVD when it is inserted into the DVD drive. However,
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it will not provide access to the DVD menu. Other free software media
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players like VLC, mplayer and xine do make the DVD menu available.</para>
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<title>Playing DVDs in Totem</title>
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<title>Playing DVDs in Totem Movie Player</title>
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<para>After you have installed all the required software packages from
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various Ubuntu repositories, you can play a DVD on your Totem movie
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<para>To start viewing the online video of your choice, launch your
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Firefox and paste the URL of the Web page from which you want to
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Firefox and navigate to the Web page from which you want to
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view the streaming media.</para>
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<title><emphasis role="italic">Opening the Desired Web
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<para>Using Sound Juicer, you can play audio tracks direct from the
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CD, extract audio tracks and convert them into audio files in
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various file formats. In addition, the default audio CD burner for
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Ubuntu, Serpentine, can be used to create audio CDs.</para>
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various file formats. In addition, the default audio CD/DVD burner for
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Ubuntu, Brasero, can be used to create audio and data CD/DVDs.</para>
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<para>Click the click the <emphasis role="strong">Make Audio
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CD</emphasis> button, on the <emphasis role="strong">Choose Disc
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Type</emphasis> dialogue box. This launches the <emphasis
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<para>To change the default configuration settings for <emphasis
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box by clicking <emphasis role="strong">Preferences</emphasis> on the
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<emphasis role="strong">Edit</emphasis> menu.</para>
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<para>Select the <emphasis role="strong">Add</emphasis> two seconds
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gap between two tracks check box to insert two seconds gap between two
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<para>Click <emphasis role="strong">Close</emphasis> to apply the
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changes and exit the <emphasis role="strong">Serpentine
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Preferences</emphasis> window.</para>
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<para>Now you need to specify the files that you want to be copied on
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the inserted CD. To start specifying the desired audio files, click
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<emphasis role="strong">Add</emphasis>.</para>
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<para>This opens a browser window. In the browser window, navigate to
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the desired folder and click <emphasis role="strong">Open</emphasis>
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CD</emphasis> button. This launches the <emphasis
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<emphasis role="strong">New Audio Project</emphasis> button.</para>
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<emphasis role="strong">Serpentine</emphasis> window.</para>
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each file name to the Files area in the right side of the project window.</para>
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<para>Once you are sure of the files to be copied to the disk, click
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writing the audio files from your computer to the CD.</para>
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<para>You are asked to confirm your decision to record a media disc.
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Click <emphasis role="strong">Write to Disc</emphasis> to
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