ubuntu dual boot- listening to itunes music library

Disco Boy · 28 Jul 2011 at 12:18

Hello everyone. So I have a new laptop coming tomorrow (DELL Latitude) and I will be installing a w7 Pro ubuntu dual boot.

My music library I listen to through itunes at present. It's in a mis-match of formats, I think mostly mp3 though.

How do I best go about listening to my music when in ubuntu? Automatically I would have the music in my w7 partition in my music. Would it be easy to play music from there when in ubuntu or would I be better off having a third partition just for music?

masterluke · 28 Jul 2011 at 18:05

The default music player is Banshee. You can import songs from any folder into the library. Should be totally seamless. I believe you can also import your itunes library directly into Banshee but Ive never tried this.

Disco Boy · 28 Jul 2011 at 18:37

So it won't have any problems with the files being on the Windows partition then? I just tell it the drive name and the folder and it'll be happy despite their being an OS there?

Happy days if so

masterluke · 28 Jul 2011 at 20:53

No problem at all - linux will see the windows drive just fine. Bear in mind that windows wont see the linux drive so best to store your music on either the windows partition or a separate partition entirely.