[SCA-Dance] Laptop music programs?
Aaron Macks
upelluri at gmail.com
Thu Aug 25 21:30:25 EDT 2011
we keep the library on a laptop, but actually just use an ipod as the
music-source at practice. Even with a rather powerful (45w) speaker, I
can easily carry the entire kit on my back across town. Even with our
rather large library a small, several-generations-old iPod has more then
enough space.
GunDormr
On 8/25/11 9:16 PM, Del wrote:
>
> I use Rhythmbox under Ubuntu. It has a pretty good search function, and supports loading
> multiple playlists, copying files between playlists, etc. That's pretty useful if you're
> lining up to teach dance at a few different events running where you think you will have
> different levels of skill/experience present at each event.
>
> The laptop I use is an HP mini-netbook which is one of the models with an internal SSD disk
> rather than a hard disk. Limited in capacity but has extra USB ports for attaching larger hard
> disks if you need them, and the SSD disk survives being bounced around between events a lot
> better than a hard disk. It's also very light and has lots of battery life.
>
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