Ubuntu discoveries - Music

So my web sensei suggested "blips" on Facebook and blogs on (you guessed it) here.

So here goes:

I like listening to music in the kitchen while puttering.

I used to play my OiPod, but found myself listening to the same things over, and over, and. . . you get the picture.

So I started with Pandora, but found that after an hour, they were playing the same Motown tunes over again. . . and the library's gotta be pretty big.

So I found on the Optonline home page, a link to their music page.

On their music page are 2 choices:

Music Choice - The optonline feed that also goes over the cable TV signal - but it's out of sync with the internet feed so their songs have reverb, reverb, reverb if you try to play out of your TV and your computer.

Rhapsody - my new fave. Too many "radio stations", lots of weird names and lots of choices. . . Essential Classical, Smooth Jazz, 70's, 80's. The list goes on.

And best of all, I've been pulling the music without a logon to optonline! In short, free for anyone (please let me know) who finds it.

Anyway, the Ubuntu discovery. . .

I logon to the kitchen PC and start playing music. Screen saver comes up. . . My kid logs on. . . and the music keeps playing!

Try that in Windas!