My “old” laptop feels new again. Ubuntu has given it new life. I’ve been trying my best to use it for anything that I don’t explicitly need Windows for and the list is growing. I’m using it right now making my posts while I’m listening to music from my library.
I got Banshee working for library management and I mounted the server locally using smbmount so that I could access the music and pictures as if they existed directly on the laptop. That seems to be the ticket. I got Picasa up and running managing the pictures right from the mount point and banshee was able to import my music library and that is all working well.
I tried plugging my iPod Shuffle in and it showed up on my desktop, however, for some unknown reason, it’s not appearing in Banshee. I’ll have to look at this because it would be nice to be able to manage the iPods from this laptop as well. For the time being, it’s no big deal as I’m able to work with the iPods from my primary laptop which is running Windows Vista.
