Migrating My Music Collection To Linux Part 1

[Moozik: Sheep On Drugs - Uberman]

One of my PCs has been dual boot WinXP and Linux for quite some time. I kept WinXP around for one reason and one reason alone. iTunes. As a music collection manager, iTunes is really quite nice I must admit.

Well, I decided to change all that a couple of weeks ago, you know, just to shake things up ;-)

The PC in question has two hard drives, a 40GB master that booted WinXP & Ubuntu 6.06 and a 100GB slave that is the ever so important home to my music collection. I wiped the 40GB disk and installed Ubuntu 6.10 from scratch thus waving goodbye to my windows partition.

As always, the Ubuntu install went flawlessly and as always, I was more than impressed that these days we have a Linux distro that quite frankly "just works". Gone are the days where I have the patience to spend hours online hunting down which planets have to be in alignment in order for my hardware to play nicely together.

After installing a shedload of ubuntu updates, my next task was tackling that 100GB ntfs disk with my music collection, and installing my new media player of choice.