picture, video, music organizer for ubuntu and windows 7?

Question

i want to beable to view all my pictures, videos, and music all in one program. is there 1 program for both operating systems that i can use?

or can you tell me a great program for each operating system?

thanks!

Answer 1

most video players like vlc will play music and video but not pictures

the file manager shows thumbnails for movies and pictures which you can enlarge to pretty much any size you want and the new gnome file manager (nautilus allows an extra pane - F3 - so you can view two directories or files at once) (btw you will have to remove the movie or pictures from their respective folders into the parent folder if you wish to see the preview thumbnails together. This could be messy so 2 panes helps)

Also you can preview a song by hovering above the file with your mouse pointer.

Konqueror, the KDE file manager, was trying to do what you are suggesting but I use gnome so I don't know how far they got. Okay so I installed konqueror and it does integrate web browsing If you decide on KDE DO NOT REMOVE GNOME UNTIL YOU HAVE A FULLY FUNCTIONING KDE SETUP as you may not be able to login if it is not fully installed!! Log out of gnome and into KDE before removing gnome. Try KDE for a while is my first advice but I wanted to warn you as I switched to KDE once and didn't try it before removing gnome in the same synaptic session! I had to finish up with a live CD.



Other than that there is the web browser which will be able to all of this soon but can do it now by visiting sites. Including video and picture editing etc



Songbird for windows or Firefox for both but the best I have found so far is . . . . . . .

Dolphin for gnome - I tried it and it is definitely better than konqueror for the features you asked about and this has rudimentary controls for the music and video with a split screen (extra pane) for easier file management via drag and drop instead of cut and paste though konqueror has web browsing and should have done better from memory so maybe the plugins aren't working with my gnome setup (mixing gnome and KDE always messes something up and I haven't had them both for a long while - Mandriva was the best for having both desktops working well together (remember KDE uses more resources too)

You can open a video, music or picture file in firefox but there are no controls. You can use it to view your files and folders with support for reading and saving pdf files (sudo apt-get install acroread) Get the vlc plugins for firefox too (and vlc is the best video player btw - it does things like moving the audio track slightly forwards or backwards when the voices aren't synced correctly, ditto with subtitles and has a hundred other features; several hundred if you include the command line!)



Dolphin and Firefox (with plugins). Opera and Chrome's extensions were poor but they are getting better. Gnome-do is fantastic once you have learned it as it can open any file in a flash!

Answer 2

Unless your up for a good bit of work they are gone. Windows doesn't do a real format so the files still exist on your drive. The problem is Linux uses a different format than windows. This means most recovery software that runs in windows will not know how to piece your files back together or even recognize that there are files there. In Linux you can use what's called a sector editor by booting up in a live CD, then installing the sector editor and piecing the files back together and then copying them to a thumb drive or other device. This requires a bit of skill however. How successful you are can also depend on how fragmented the drive is. Linux is a whole lot better than windows about fragmentation but fragmentation does occur in Linux. As such only an expert is going to be able to find anything not contiguous on the file system. One possible option is to DD the drive (that is use the DD utility from a live CD) copying it to an external drive. Then using a windows file recovery system on the external drive. When you copy it to the external drive the file systems will be translated to whatever you have formated the drive as and to the windows software it looks like a giant text file. Any files or sections of files that were overwrriten are gone. There are file recovery programs, none for free that I know of which claim to be able to read both NTFS and ext file systems but they tend to be a bit iffy. Some are also actually trojaned. So be careful about which one you purchase if you go that route.

Answer 3

What is your setup? Are you dual booting? Two machines?

Answer 4

banshee is a really good one for both os'