Music (listen, convert, organize)

Listen:
Zorin OS has a built-in music player named "Rhythmbox", which looks like iTunes.

Rhythmbox can be used to listen almost every audio file, playlists, or even podcasts and a big number of internet radio stations.

There are lots of different services which allows you to listen to music. In this case, Rhythmbox covers almost every audio need, so in most cases we won't need to search for another audio manager better than this stock one.

Convert:
There are many ways to convert files in Zorin OS (as in Linux), most of them have to be installed, and are not available from stock OS.

So, we'll use VLC player to convert audio and video, assuming that most people have this powerfull video player installed, if you don't have it installed, just type in a terminal: sudo apt-get install vlc Open the files you want to convert, and once the program has started, go to "Media>Convert/Save"

Then, you will be able to choose which format do you want for your files. Notice that this process is the same to convert audio and video.

Organize:
There are several ways to organize your music:

Folders:
When you organize your music files by folder, you can group them by several items (such as release date, musical style, artist, author, song name...) so the best option if you want to organize your music by folders is to have a strict ordering criteria to follow with every folder on your music library.

For example, if we decide to store our music by Authors, every new addition to our library must be ordered by author. Same if we decided to store by name of song, groups, dates...(if you don't want a messy library)

The best about this option is that you can easily find a song just by the ordering criteria you choose.

Playlists:
When you organize your music files by playlist, you dont need to know how the files are stored. A music player will allow you to chech the current playlist, and you can save it to anywhere. Your music files will still be at the same place, but you can access an entire playlist just by clicking a single item.

If you want to have the same song in several playlists, or even make a mix playlist, your files will not loose their original order, so you can make crazy playlists, mix authors, songs, music styles, and so on at your convenience.

The best about this option is that you can have a song in several playlists, but if the playlist name is not descriptive, finding one single song would be a little hard. (better to find it by folders, if you have a good ordering criteria)