Mithun Tech

OS X Lion introduces "Natural Scroll", which is another way of saying two-finger scroll will work in the opposite direction that it did before. This is meant to make the experience more tablet-like, in that it's almost like you're pulling the screen in the direction you want it to scroll, rather than pushing towards the direction you want. Just look at the videos in the system preferences for Lion if it's confusing.

The problem, for many of us, is that it changes the direction of the mouse wheel as well. I like the natural scroll idea for the touchpad, but I want the mouse wheel to continue to scroll the page up when wheeled up, down when wheeled down. Disabling natural scroll for the mouse will disable it for the touchpad, and vice-versa. Bit of an oversight in my opinion.

Really though, you're better off just installing Winamp or VLC and doing it that way, but I know a lot of people want or need to use WMC for their media.

There are myriad instructions out there for creating an Ubuntu USB drive, differing in the Ubuntu documentation, the wiki, random websites, etc. The simplest, easiest, and therefore in my opinion correctest way to do it is to use Universal USB Installer, available on Pendrivelinux.com. I'll present their screenshot here as it's pretty much everything you need to see.

If you've copied music files to your Android device, you may have noticed that Google Music has an affinity for splitting songs up into separate albums, with the same album name and even the same album art.

The reason it does this is because the song metadata does not match for all of the songs. That means the information stored in the file, such as the artist, album name, or genre, differs in some way across the rest of the files.

The problem is that by the looks of it, there is nothing wrong with the metadata. The album names match up, and obviously the artist names do. This is where the program Ex Falso comes in.

Solution:

Install Ex Falso. Do this through the Ubuntu Software Center, or run apt-get install exfalso in a terminal.

Run Ex Falso. Navigate to the files for the album and highlight all of them.

Examine the tags. The ones that say "title" and "tracknumber" should say "(different across [x] songs)" where x is the number of songs in the album. It will look something like this:  

Note above that "genre" says "(different across 8 songs)" as well. Either delete any tags like this or change their value. I will change the value to "Rock".

Another problem may be that some songs have tags that others don't. You can see above that Ex Falso labels these as "(missing from [x] songs)". Remove those tags so that all of the songs have the same number of tags. I will remove the "performer" tag (it's a bit redundant considering all files have an "artist" tag anyway). My files now look like this:  

Hit Save. Ex Falso will awesomely save all of the files at once.

Copy the files to your Android device again, overwriting the old ones.

Turn off USB Storage and run Google Music. Congratulations! Your files should now all appear in one album.