A Simpler CD Player


Although it doesn't come up automatically, and you can't find it in the Applications menu, Ubuntu has another CD player that you might prefer, the GNOME CD player. If all you want to do is play your CDs and you want a simple, easy-to-use interface, look no further. Press <Alt+F2> to bring up your quick-start application starter and type in gnome-cd). The CD player launches (see Figure 18-4). Click the Play button, sit back, and enjoy.

Figure 18-4. Gnome CD, a kinder, gentler, CD player.


Tip

If you can't find the CD player, install it with Synaptic. Look for and install the gnome-media package.


On the left of the player, just above the Pause button, there's a button with a tool icon. Click this button to bring up the CD player preferences dialog. Next to that is the standard list of controls to skip over songs, fast forward, or stop. On the far right of the CD player, there's a vertical slider control. That's a volume control.

After the GNOME CD player has started, look in your top panel's notification area and you see a small icon that looks like a CD. Left-click the icon and the CD player disappears into the panel. Right-click the applet and you have access to the basic CD player controls such as Previous, Next, Stop, Play, and so on (see Figure 18-5).

Figure 18-5. The GNOME CD's top panel applet provides some handy, out-of-the-way, controls.





Moving to Ubuntu Linux
Moving to Ubuntu Linux
ISBN: 032142722X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 201

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