Hey & hello - <br>After a few years not really using Linux I dived back in and dedicated by main machine to Ubuntu. I am STILL aglow over how easy the install is. I used all the big distros from the early 2000s, Mandrake, SuSE, and am amazed how far the desktop has come. No configuring anything in /etc, no hardware that didn't work right, none of the old hassles. Very easy to find the software to play proprietary software like mp3s or wmvs . Synaptic works and even after I installed everything under the sun it still works. (still have nightmares over urmpi) Very impressed. The only real difficulty I had was finding a music player that worked with my Creative Zen mp3 player but once I got Amarok working (it needed a couple tweaks) I am flying.<br>
I do have one question, and I'm sure there's an idiot-proof solution but I can't find it. I tried the two major cd burning programs for burning audio, the Brasero and k3b. Brasero looks good but for me doesn't work - every time it gets to transcoding mp3s it crashes and leaves a weird looking file in my temp drive. k3b, better, but won't autotranscode mp3s I drop in - I have to make 'em .wavs in a term window and then I can burn. Is there a way to either make k3b behave with mp3s or is there some wonderful program I don't know exists?<br>
<br>(also, what the heck happened to xmms? I got a lot of 'stuff' from synaptic but nothing gives me the traditional xmms. Which is a shame because it had a really easy way to make flacs and mp3s and whatever you want into .wavs...)<br>
<br>-Jason<br><br><br>