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I recently was introduced to Wuala which is another cloud storage service. The free storage starts of with 1GB with the ability to expand up to 3GB if you have friends sign up for the service. Much like Dropbox you need a client to use it. The client creates a networked drive on whatever platform you are using (I use windows at work and Linux at home so this is a nifty feature that I can take advantage of). With the networked drive it’s easy to access your files however you cannot upload to the root folder you have to upload into Documents, Music, Photos, or Videos only. You can create new folders if you wish for files that don’t quite fit into that generalized category.

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Well KDE does has its flaws I guess. My podcast is music based and I get CD’s all the time from artists through Ariel Publicity and in order to put them into my show I need to extract the CD’s into an MP3 format.

Now I know I can rip to OGG or FLAC and convert them to MP3 using Audacity, LAME, and a shit load of other convertors, but that is 1 extra step! I’ve tried Sound-Juicer and K3B and looked at tutorials for each of them and still no go!

So I went back to Gnome. Long Live the Foot!

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Well here is the second to last day of this experiment. And I have to say I will be staying with Linux for a while longer. I enjoy the little challenges. However one that really got me right now is my sound just up and quit. GAH!

I still have the ability to transfer stuff to my iPod with no issue, but I can’t listen to MP3′s on the laptop or even watch videos for that matter. What did I do wrong? I know I must have killed something, but I cannot find out where. BACKUP TIME! Read the rest of this entry »

So far I have learned that working with little quirks under Linux you need patience.

Finally I finished sorting out all my music files and got them back on the external HD! So I started to get things together to record my podcast. Hooked up my mixer, turned it on and plugged it into the USB port. The system found it OK. I checked it with Skype.

Beautiful.  Launched Audacity and chose the input for the mixer and started recording.  The waveform was flat..

Hmmmm..

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