Following the proliferation of available ubuntu flavours, I dreamt with interest that the worlds most popular Linux distribution is no longer content to constrain their target user.

Gentle reader, I present to you mewbuntu

Step 1

Create the following script somewhere. I choose ~/bin.

#!/bin/bash
src=/insert/path/to/mounted/camera
DST=/home/shared/Photos/camera_sync/
rsync -rtv --modify-window=1 --progress --ignore-existing $SRC $DST
xmessage "Camera Sync Complete!"


Step 2

Find the gnome removable media preferences application. (On Ubuntu it’s at System->Preferences->Removable Drives and Media).

Under the Multimedia tab change the Digital Camera command to:

gnome-terminal -e "/path/to/your/script"

Matt’s music player of choice under ubuntu. Essentially does the same job as iTunes without the online sales bit. Playlists, external media, rating, album art, id3 tags etc
http://www.exaile.org/

Can I upgrade my version after having apt-get install(ed) it?
A quick visit to getdeb revealed a newer SoftwarePackage exaile_0.2.5b-1getdeb1_i386.deb so I downloaded that and installed it using the GUI(gdebi 0.1.4ubuntu13), clicked my desktop icon and … nothing! Invoking the app from the command line gave me this error

matt@precuntu:~$ exaile
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/exaile", line 65, in ?
from xl import *
File "/usr/share/exaile/xl/tracks.py", line 18, in ?
import common, media, db, config, trackslist
File "/usr/share/exaile/xl/media.py", line 18, in ?
import mutagen, mutagen.id3, mutagen.flac, mutagen.oggvorbis
ImportError: No module named oggvorbis

This ubuntu forum link provided a source for the missing python-mutagen package so I was able to download, build and install as per the instructions there.

I kept getting told that sound resources were already in use, etc, etc, maybe I want to consider a sound daemon. Well I do! So I researched around these keywords - sound daemon to allow multiple simultaneous sound sources.

I decided to follow this guide http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Hear_multiple_sounds

and it all works a treat! It’s just a shame that such an apparently simple fix didn’t make it into the standard ubuntu desktop installation. AFAICR all of the required packages were already installed on my machine leaving the simple addition of .conf file for it all to work.