Well, irritation of irritation, I found my Intrepid Ibex installation didn’t include an Audio CD Extractor by default. I’ve started a thread on Ubuntu Forums asking how to get it…but until that bears fruit I’ve been playing around with my audio programs.

I normally use Amarok for my music, it is still my favorite player:

sudo apt-get install amarok

But I heard about a few other ones that are pretty cool. Beep Music Player eXperimental (bmpx). It seems pretty cool:

sudo apt-get install bmpx

On the other hand, Listen (yes, that’s the name of the player) seems to be very similar to Amarok…almost like Rythmbox meets Amarok, because it uses panes to display your library like Rhythmbox, but it incorporates Wikipedia and aparently lyric data as well. I think I may actually play with it a bit more. But I can’t tell if it automatically updates it’s music library, which is a favorite feature of mine for Amarok. Run this to get Listen:

sudo apt-get install listen

And now…..dah duh duuuummmmm! I feel like an idiot. (figured this out as I was posting…) The Audio CD Extractor I was looking for was Sound Juicer….and you can install it thusly:

sudo apt-get install sound-juicer

just make sure you’ve installed the ubuntu-restricted-extras package so you can rip to mp3s…

okay, I figured it out in this thread from Ubuntu Forums. I used these commands to purge the old plugins:

sudo apt-get remove kaffeine-mozilla mozilla-helix-player mozilla-mplayer mozilla-plugin-vlc totem-mozilla xine-plugin

and then these to install the new mplayer gecko plugin:

sudo apt-get install gnome-mplayer gecko-mediaplayer

and I went back to Apple’s trailer site and could watch trailers!

note, if you have problems, check the thread mentioned at the top for troubleshooting.