CHAPTER 18Digital Music

Today's PC is a multimedia powerhouse, and it's hard to come across a home computer that doesn't have at least a set of speakers attached. Some people take this to extremes, adding surround-sound and even large monitors for crystal-clear video playback. In an effort to meet the growing demand for using Linux as a multimedia station, the people behind SUSE Linux include audio and video players with the distribution.

In this chapter, you'll learn how to listen to audio files on your SUSE Linux system, as well as rip and burn CDs. In the next chapter, you'll learn how to manage video playback.

Issues Surrounding Multimedia on Linux

As you might have read in the press, multimedia playback on computer devices, and Linux in ...

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