[Tfug] update on sound system

[Malcolm Schmerl]

Possibly, some of you might remember a thread a few months ago that I 
started about computer speakers. I took an old Asus MB with an AMD 
700mhz chip that happened to have onboard 6-channel surround sound and 
added enough scrounged parts to make a basic computer to which I 
installed Ubuntu 7.03. One of you suggested Klipsch Promedia 2.1 
speakers. I got those off of ebay quite reasonably and they've turned 
out to be fantastic. Who ever you were, thanks for the suggestion. 
Ubuntu comes with some pretty nice sound tools. Sound Juicer opens when 
you drop a cd in the cdrom. It gives you the choice of playing it or 
extracting it to the harddrive. Once you've extracted the cd, you can 
then drag and drop the icon for each track of the cd to the totem movie 
player and create a playlist. The playlist can then be named and saved 
in a convenient location. Anytime in the future when you want to play 
that cd, all you have to do is click on the playlist. This is the best 
sound system I've ever had and all for the sum of $56.