Netbook Experience

Last.FM is a free (in some countries) Internet Music Radio Service that plays music through your computer. The music is tailored to your taste based on your searches for artists, songs & Keywords. Last.FM claims to have over 30 million active users based in more than 200 countries.
Users  of Last.FM can create custom radio stations and playlists from any of the audio tracks in the services music library, and are able to listen to some individual tracks on demand.

Users need a user account from last.fm

There is a Linux.FM client which is easy to install and works well on the Acer Aspire One.

To Install Last.FM:

• Right click on the desktop to display the advanced menu.
• Choose system
• Choose Add/remove Software
• Enter your Admin Password
• Click on the search tab
• Search for Last.FM
• When the search finishes put a tick next to LastFM and then click on apply.

• When the install has finished, you will be able to launch Last.FM from the Multimedia section in the advanced menu.

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Spotify is a popular application which streams music legally from a massive online catalog to your desktop.

At the moment there is no Linux Spotify Application, however it runs very well under Wine.

To install Wine:

1. Open a Terminal window
2. type sudo install wine
3. Accept the install

To configure Wine:

1. Type Winecfg
2. In the graphics tab turn off emulate virtual desktop.
3. In the Audio Tab turn on the OSS Driver, set the hardware acceleration to full, set the default sample rate to 44100, set the default bits per sample to 16 & turn off driver emulations.
4. Click on apply and ok.

To Install Spotify

1. Got to http://www.spotify.com/en/download/windows/ and download the windows version of the Spotify installer.
2. When the installer has finished downloading run it.

When the installer has finished you will be able to run Spotify from the Other section on the advanced menu.

To use Spotify you will need to register for a free Spotify account at Spotify.com

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Songbird is an Itunes replacement for Linux that supports Itunes Music Libraries and music files.
It’s written by the same people that created Firefox so it comes with some pedigree, it’s Interface is similar to Itunes so it should be easy to pick up quickly.

This guide will look at how to install Songbird and future guides will look at Itunes and Ipod connectivity.

This site give me the information to get started.
To install Songbird.

1. Open a Terminal Window from the advanced menu
2. type wget http://download.songbirdnest.com/installer/linux/i686/Songbird_1.2.0-1146_linux-i686.tar.gz
3. Press return
4. sudo tar -zvxf Songbird_1.2.0-1146_linux-i686.tar.gz --directory /opt
5. Press return.
6. sudo chown user -R /opt/Songbird
7. Press return.
   

To add Songbird onto the Advanced menu.From the advanced menu choose settings and then select Menu Editor.

1. Click on Add Entry.
2. In the name box type SongBird.
3. In the Command box type /opt/Songbird/songbird
4. Click on Ok

1. Drag the SongBird Entry to where you want it to be.
2. Click on Save

SongBird will now be in the Advanced Menu.

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