Dear Spotify

I've upgraded 2 laptops from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10.

In upgrading Spotify/Wine I've had to make some changes.

First...my spotify failed to play local files again...

I had to download this:  winemp3.acm.so (x86 only)

then open a terminal session by pressing ctrl-alt-t. do a sudo su(to run as root) type your password, then type cp winemp3.acm.so /usr/lib/wine/winemp3.acm.so (x86 only)

After copying the file, I edited the wine config...click the audio section, and I changed the sound driver from oss to alsa, and the hardware acceleration from emulation to full.

After changing this, sound worked.

One thing to note, .m4a files don't play...but .mp3 files do.

So, if you have .m4a files and want to convert them, download sound converter.

open Ubuntu Software center, and search and click install. then open the folder and convert the files.



Thats it.

Start from the beginning then upgrade!

Lets start from the beginning.

I'm going to download Ubuntu 11.04, then upgrade to 11.10 which is now available.

If you'd like to do it this way...in windows:

go to http://releases.ubuntu.com/natty/

click on PC (Intel x86) desktop CD, then download...insert a blank 2 gig or better thumb drive.

then click here http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/ and click the download button.

once downloaded and installed choose Ubuntu 11.04 and choose your thumbdrive. and click create. Follow the prompts.

universal installer should look like this.

Place your thumbdrive into the computer of choice, and boot using the thumbdrive. Choose the second choice to install Ubuntu to the harddrive. I took snapshots of this step but they came out horrible.

Great thing about Ubuntu is during the install you can connect to wireless. You can also have it download updates while its installing...follow the prompts. Name the computer, give a name to your login, and create a password, these are all things you should be familiar with from installing windows.

Even with downloading updates and third party tools, on my antiquated IBM thinkpad x40 with 768 megs of ram and a 20 gig drive...it took all of 25 minutes...shave about 10 minutes off of that if you don't update.







click restart.

Unlike Windows, you have a fully loaded computer at this time. Still a few things to do, but you have a photo editor, an office suite...

First things first, update it. it may prompt you to upgrade to 11.10, but i declined for now. Either click on system administration, update manager, ot click on the star and type in update.

Then install wine and spotify...and if you use it install a gmail checker...I like Gm-notify...it integrates into the mail icon in the top of the screen. Install the restricted extras....you can do this in the Ubuntu Software center....type restricted extras and choose the ubuntu one.

reboot after updating, install your windows printers, and mount your windows share...(click here to make it permanent)


then upgrade, or don't. A few things to note...in 11.10 they removed the use of Ubuntu classic, all thats available is Unity. You can get a semi classic look by doing this, but it's a little off.


Till next time...