Music
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Listening to music
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You can use Audacious to listen to music on your computer. Audacious will open audio files when they are double-clicked. Alternatively, you can add your music directory to Audacious and it will index and organize your files for you.

Portable music players
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freespire will work with most portable audio players, including iPods. Normally, all you have to do is plug the player into your computer and then use File Manager to manually copy songs to and from the player.

[Note]	
Newer iPods (6th generation and newer) will not work automatically with freespire unless you have done an initial synchronization with iTunes first.

If you have a portable music player which can also display photos and videos, you may prefer to use Banshee, which is a music player with good support for such devices. iPod owners may also like to try specialized applications such as GPixPod, gtkpod, and ideviceinstaller for handling multimedia.

Movies, DVDs and videos
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You can watch movies and video clips with the Parole Media Player.

Playing DVDs and Blu-Ray disks
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Parole Media Player can read and play encrypted and non-encrypted disks if you install the appropriate codecs or purchase Linspire

Playing video
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Parole Media Player supports many free and libre video codecs. If you try to play an unsupported video file, Parole Media Player may notify you of a missing codec.

If you are having difficulties getting a video to stream in your browser, Parole supports streaming most types of video. To open a video in Parole, right-click the video and select Open with Parole.

Burning CDs and DVDs
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You can make your own CDs and DVDs by burning files onto a blank disc using the CD or DVD writer drive of your computer.

Xfburn is the default application in freespire to complete these tasks. Xfburn allows you to to easily create audio CDs, burn CDs and DVDs with either plain data or disk images and prepare blank re-writable disks for a new burn.

In order to launch Xfburn, go to  → Multimedia → Xfburn.

Once launched, you can insert a CD-R(W) or DVD-R(W) you wish to write to and then select the button corresponding to the action you wish to take (New Data Composition, Audio CD, etc.).