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Penny Lane – Beatles Ukulele Cover

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Here’s my latest ukulele cover. It’s “Penny Lane” by the Beatles.

Wikipedia says:

“Penny Lane” is a song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney[2] and credited to Lennon/McCartney.[2] Recorded during the Sgt. Pepper sessions, “Penny Lane” was released in February 1967 as one side of a double A-sided single, along with “Strawberry Fields Forever“. The song was later included on the Magical Mystery Tour LP (1967). The single was the result of the record company wanting a new release after several months of no new Beatles releases. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the song at #449 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

This is the first video I made since installing Windows with Sun Microsystems’ VirtualBox. I recorded the audio on my Sony MZ-NHF800 and used SonicStage to transfer the file to my computer and converted it to .WAV format. Then I used Audacity to add a tiny bit of reverb and a little bit of compression. After that, it was a simple matter of syncing the video and audio tracks in Kdenlive, cutting out the extra bits before and after the song, and adding the fade in/fade out. The URL graphic that pops up at the beginning was created with Inkscape.

I hope you enjoy. What is your favorite Beatles song?

VirtualBox setup complete

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I installed the closed source edition of VirtualBox and then I got Windows installed inside of that. I had a little bit of trouble figuring out how to get the USB ports to work, but after a little while I had it all up and running just fine. One thing I had to do was make sure I was part of the vboxusers group. In Ubuntu, I clicked System -> Administration -> Users and Groups. I clicked the key button and entered my sudo password to make changes. I clicked “Manage Groups” and found the “vboxusers” entry. I opened that up and made sure there was a check mark next to my name and next to root.

I restarted the computer so the Users and Groups list would be reloaded. Then I started up Windows in VirutalBox. I attached my MiniDisc but it still didn’t show up in Windows. It appeared on the Ubuntu desktop. So I looked around some more. I found this line in the VirtualBox online user manual:

In order to use VirtualBox’s USB support, the user account under which you intend to run VirtualBox must have read and write access to the USB filesystem (usbfs).

So I went about trying to figure out how to get read/write access to usbfs. I found some posts from ’07 and ’08 that said I had to edit a file called “mountdevsubfs.sh” But the lines in that file that the post said to make the changes on didn’t exist. Then I found another post that said USB should be working “straight out of the box” now. I had read a post earlier that talked about USB filters in the VirtualBox settings. I tried that. I checked the USB settings in VirtualBox for the Windows machine. I had the MiniDisc plugged in and I clicked the “add filter” button. The MiniDisc showed up right away. I started Windows again and POW! The MiniDisc was there and I was able to transfer files from it using SonicStage.

So a big shout-out goes to cigarboxuke. You are awesome. Thanks for suggesting I use VirtualBox. Now I’m going to put Ubuntu 10.04 on the previously Windows-occupied machine and put VirtualBox on it, too.

As always, comments are greatly appreciated. See you soon.

VirtualBox OSE vs. VirtualBox CSE

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I got Windows installed in VirtualBox, no problems. But the reason I wanted to do this was to use my Sony MZ-NHF800 MiniDisc Walkman. Well it turned out that I was using VirtualBox Open Source Edition, which does not include USB support. I didn’t realize this until someone in the IRC channel #vbox on irc.freenode.org was nice enough to point it out to me. So I’ve removed the OSE and I’m about to install the Closed Source Edition, which includes USB support. Full report later.

Windows inside VirtualBox

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Installing Windows in VirtualBox

At the suggestion of cigarboxuke, I am installing Windows in a VirtualBox on my Ubuntu laptop. Everything seems to be going well. Amazingly well, actually. I will give a full report when it’s finished.