As of yesterday, the Nightly Builds from Amarok now support storage maintenance on USB data storage units. This feature is to be found in Amarok 2.2.

The Mac is fairly widespread among musicians because tons of professional programs run on it. Apparently Ubuntu can completely replace the Mac, however, as in the following story.

Open source project Amarok, in an open letter to Palm, has invited the company to work with them. The reason: the Apple iTunes 8.2.1 update guarantees that the Linux-based Palm Pre smartphone can no longer use the iTunes music management software.

After its debut almost eight and a half years ago, the VideoLAN Client (VLC) media player is finally available in version 1.0.

The iPodLinux has had success being installed on older iPods already. Now the current iPods should enjoy the taste of Linux.

On the second day of the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, Gnome and KDE developers have been focused on topics surrounding meta data, community, and infrastructure. Concerning multimedia, audio support for the open source desktop has proved to be a hot topic.

Voice over IP on the Internet gives communication a personal touch, but it takes applications like Cheese and WebcamStudio to exploit the creative potential of Internet telephony.

Just because the MTP protocol is promoted by Microsoft doesn't mean you can't get music onto your MTP devices.