gmusicbrowser

Gmusicbrowser, Xubuntus default music player has a nice simple fifo for controlling basic playback functions.

Xubuntu...

Switched to using Xubuntu 11.10 - first time running non stock Ubuntu in almost 5 years.
Things so far:

Enabling SMB and network browsing. I actually like using FUSE much more than Nautilus own (gnome-based?) vfs.

Triming video with ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i video.avi -vcodec copy -acodec copy -ss 00:00:00 -t 00:00:04 trimmed_video.avi


source.