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Search with synaptic, I'm sure there is a graphical design tool for gtk developed by the Gnome project.

Monodvelop also comes with a tool for designing GUI's using the gtk toolkit that integrates...

I never got this to work with MTP, however I did get it to file MP3 files properly index under the artist, album etc.

The problem was the ID3 tags were written by gstreamer as version 2.4. My...

Thanks for the reply - seems to make sense. I'll give it a go when I get round to it.

I'm running Lucid which has Java 6 in the repos. I downloaded version 7 from the Oracle website and it works fine however...

The download was just an archive that I unpacked to...

I implemented the bindfs solution suggested by Morbius1 and it's working like a charm.

The only thing I did differently was to create a "music" group and add all desktop users to it. Then I...

Thanks to both btindie and Morbius1 for taking time out to answer my query.

After researching both solutions, I'm going to try using bindfs. Although I liked the ideas put forward by btindie, I'm...

Ok, previously I marked this thread as solved but then realised I had another problem when I implemented the solution.

To recap:

Created /home/Music
Moved all music from each users home...

Found a solution here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive

For me, I ignored the bits about mounting the drive in a specific place as I only needed to label the drive.

I labelled...

Ok, it appears I may have to put a watch on my music folder and script that change you've entered for any .mp3 files.

Thanks for the reply.

I am using Banshee (2.01) to rip CD's to MP3 on my Ubuntu Lucid machine. The
tags are written as ID3v2.4, which are ignored by my player as it only reads
ID3v2.3.

I know this is probably a...

Make sure the file is executable with:

chmod 755 perlscript.pl

The very top line of the script should have a shebang, something like:

#!/bin/perl

which points to the perl executable.

When I plug in my media player (or any storage device), I get a folder appear on the desktop named something like "3.8Gb Storage Device".

How do I set up my system so it's named something more...

Thanks Moribus1. I think I'll go with your suggestion and use /home, that seems to make sense to me. I've been using Ubuntu for a few years now and still struggle with the intended purpose of some of...

It seems the player expects ID3v2.3 tags and Rhythmbox (via gstreamer) is producing ID3v2.4.

Two options to fix

install the gstreamer-bad-plugins and amend the gstreamer pipeline for MP3...

This is going to seem like a stupid question to more experienced users out there...

I want each user on my laptop to share the same Music folder. I was going to create /usr/share/Music (to store...

Thanks for the advice. I have a plan which is as follows...


Get onto a Windows PC and install the software that is supplied with the device.
Put some tracks onto the device using the...

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I have tried copying MP3 files to my media player using Rhythmbox. Although the Album/Artist/Name tags are present, the device doesn't recognise them.

When using the device everything goes into...

I am using Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). My Daughter was given the Creative Zen Mozaic 4Gb media player for her birthday and I'm having a bad time trying to get it working with Ubuntu.

Upon plugging...

Thanks for the reply. I got around this problem by changing the APN from 3internet (GNOME Network Manager default) to three.co.uk.

Maybe it needed to be three.co.uk because I have a pay-as-you-go...

I have a 3g modem that is functioning ok but not perfectly. Udev sets up 3 devive nodes: /dev/ttyUSB0, /dev/ttyUSB1 and /dev/ttyUSB2.

According to dmesg, all three of these are modem ports -...

Ok, I give up, I'm out of my depth and need some help. I purchased a 3g dongle from the network "3" in the uk to get an internet connection on my 10.04 installation.

I boot up with the dongle...

I have figured this out, but not at the time I was trying to. Basically, when I wrote this post, I didn't understand what a display manager was (LDM is a display manager). I was slightly confused...

If you want to run windows apps on Linux your best bet is Wine. I know that many popular games work, and I think photoshop does to. There is a database of apps showing if they work or not here:
...

Fair enough! I guess there are always new commands to learn.