Mirage is a Banshee plugin which can automatically add acoustically similar songs to the ones you have already added. This is a very useful plugin if you are an avid banshee user. All you need to do is, add the kind of song you want to play into the special playlist and this playlist will automagically generate similar sounding songs. Let's give it a ride. Before that, may be you want to install the latest banshee release in your Ubuntu as well.
- Mirage requires you to have Banshee 1.4 or higher. Check the version you use and if it is lower than the required version, Install the latest version, Banshee 1.5.1 in Ubuntu.
- Now lets get started with the installation.
Add GPG Key First
- Goto Applications > Accessories > Terminal and copy-paste the following into Terminal.
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 6E80C6B7
- Done.
Now Add the Launchpad Repo
- Now Goto System > Administration >Software Sources and select Third-Party Software tab and click ADD. And Simply Copy-Paste the following Repo (depending on the version of Ubuntu you use).
For Ubuntu Karmic
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/banshee-team/ppa/ubuntu karmic main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/banshee-team/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
For Ubuntu Jaunty
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/banshee-team/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/banshee-team/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
For Ubuntu Intrepid
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/banshee-team/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/banshee-team/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
For Ubuntu Hardy
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/banshee-team/ppa/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/banshee-team/ppa/ubuntu hardy main
- Done.
Install the Banshee Mirage Plugin
- Goto Application > Accessories >Terminal once again and do the following.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install banshee-extension-mirage
- Done.
- Thats it, you have your plugin installed. Now start Banshee and goto Tools > Mirage Playlist Generator > Rescan the Music Collection. It will take some time if you have a (most probably will) pretty large music collection.
- You will also notice a new Playlist Generator tab on the left pane. Add the kind of song you would like to hear. Sit down and relax, rest will be done automatically by Mirage Banshee Plugin. Have fun :-)
- Mirage Plugin at work.
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C# may be open, but Mono is not; it implements things which are covered by Microsoft patents, so if you use Mono, you are infringing on Microsoft patents. Any distro that includes Mono is open to a patent lawsuit by Microsoft. This is the whole reason for Mono's existence, so Microsoft can have these distros all shut down once they've woven Mono in so much that it can't be easily taken out.
In the future, please warn those people who care about GNU/Linux about the Microsoft trojans (Mono. .Net, ... etc) embeded in such software. I just wasted my time reading the article.
That was completely inapropiate, although I couldn't agree more.
(btw they aren't troyans, users install them willingly :)
It also happens to be a very nice language to develop in, too.
If you don't like C#, or Mono, then you're perfectly at liberty to ignore them and not use them - that's the beauty of free software platforms.
However, you are most decidedly not at liberty to use you own prejudices to inform other people what they can and can't use for the simple reason that it's not up to you. In fact, it's entirely up the individual.
In this case, by choosing not to use Banshee, you're missing out on a fantastic piece of software. You're also missing out on some other excellent software offerings (such as gnome-do, which I wouldn't be without any more) through your own prejudices. But that's *your* choice.
I care about Linux, else I wouldn't be using it. However, I also care about software that makes my own life better, more interesting, easier, or more fun. So get off your moralistic high horse, and stop pushing your own ill-informed agenda onto other people.
Microsoft would like Linux/GNU to cease to exist.
Microsoft promulgated code embedded (trojan) in Linux/GNU is thus a strategy to slow down Linux/GNU/Free Software. It is a Trojan Horse.
If you cared about Linux/GNU you would see that the trojan software you are pushing on readers is not good for Linux/GNU/Free Software long term. You "push" it by omission to inform them.
I did not ask for this trojan stuff to be removed, I just asked for an indication in the title of the review that is Mono (Microsoft) based.