Questions tagged [music]
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Which MP3 tagging tool for Linux? -> For Album Folders (Alrady tried a lot)
I'm trying to sort my music by album into folders. I have already tried: Picard easytag puddletag kid3 tageditor eartag beets eyeD3 I think there's an option on puddle tag but i couldn't find it, if ...
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Can minidlna play random tracks?
I have my music on a small NAS, which includes a version of minidlna, and I listen over UPnP. My client will play albums, artists and playlists etc. I cannot upgrade either the server nor the client, ...
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how do I select a SF2 font preset in fluidsynth from command line?
I use fluidsynth to play SF2 piano soundfonts, some of which have presets (like 000:000 Bright or 000:001 Mellow, etc). I usually run fluidsynth with the command: fluidsynth --server --no-shell --...
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How to connect digital piano with plug and play?
I'd like to connect my old Korg c-15s digital piano to my Toshiba Satellite laptop using a plug and play cable (midi > usb). I have never done this before, tried a few tutorials but couldn't seem ...
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Music player that allows me to rate my music files
I seek a music player which will let me rate my music and later play highly rated ones. I am aware that rhythmbox can do this, but seek alternatives with better UI. Other features sought: Ability to ...
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Maintain parallel lossy and lossless music collections
I have a large music collection. Some of it is lossless files, and some is lossy. I would like to maintain a copy of the collection that consists of the original collection's lossy files, and lossy ...
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How to turn the screen total/pitch black in GNOME?
Use case / Problem I wanna hear music in the night with my laptop/device and as such I want the screen to be black, as I don't want to get dazzled in the night. Tried workarounds/“solutions” As such, …...
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converting vinyls to electronic music on my linux computer
I have some old vinyls which I would like to convert to something I can play on my computer. I just bought a record player which comes with a USB.. I have unsuccessfully searched through all the ...
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How to output sound on 3.5 mm stereo jack and via UPnP-stream simultaneously?
Imagine a standard desktop computer. Connected to this computer is a pair of loudspeakers via common 3.5 mm stereo jack (AUX). Everything works fine so far. Now we have a further speaker in another ...
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How to print from musicnotes.com on linux
musicnotes.com won't let me print because it says: "We don't support printing from this device or browser." I'm using chrome, so there isn't any difference between printing on linux or any other os.....
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I want a shared folder between Arch (host) and Android
I have a music folder of nearly 10 GB, of completely offline music. I want to keep it on my phone, so i can take it on the go. The simplest answer is a file transfer between my phone and PC, however ...
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Is there a way to convert flac files to ape?
I need to convert flac files to ape. Googled for that topic, but seems like ape file is outdated, so no solution was found. Any tools, ideas to resolve the problem?
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How can I prevent a specific application from being minimized?
I'm running a music visualizer called glava, but even when running in desktop mode with /usr/bin/glava --desktop it still allows itself to be minimized. Obviously, for a music visualizer you got to ...
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Almost every CLI music player doesn't work (in an SSH terminal)
Goal: Play music on a server, preferably using cmus, using SSH for player control. First try: cmus I run cmus in a terminal, literally nothing happens. It just loads (i guess). Tried cmus -vvvvv - ...
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Show song info in terminal while playing internet radio (FIP radio)
I find it convenient to play FIP radio in terminal with mpv: mpv http://direct.fipradio.fr/live/fip-midfi.mp3 Can I get more info on the playing song in terminal? UPDATE no1: A friend gave me a ...