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 someone could help me with that or suggest me an alternative, I'd be very happy.

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, nor use any other transport or protocol. I would like to be able to play a random selection of music each day, but neither the server nor the client have this feature. How can I best achieve this?

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 rice your desktop, this is undesirable. It also seems to minimize with the "show desktop" button. I am using KDE on Manjaro. Is there some command or flag I can use to prevent KDE from minimizing glava? Also, I just want to mention that I am not looking for software to keep it pinned always on top, I just want to prevent it from being minimized, especially when I show desktop.

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... it seems musicnotes.com is just being overly restrictive. How do I get it to print the music I paid for without buying a copy of microsoft windows?

## 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, …: * I cannot put it into **standby** for obvious reasons (music playing stops) * I cannot **close the lit** without going into standby (I know I can adjust this in gnome-tweaks, but really… I don't wanna disable and re-enable this each time I want to do this, because I usually want to keep the default and very sensible behavior of getting into standby when the lid is closed) * I _could_ try any **physical solutions** to the problem, like closing the lid partially, wearing sunclasses or eye masks or placing the device facing me away or even putting some light-blocking object between me and the device. However, this would cause other downsides like needing to reverse the workaround when you want to pause the music or skip a track or so (access to keyboard could be limited in these scenarios). Also, it's _really_ inconvenient. (but closing the lid is e.g. sth. I instinctively do as a workaround, and it's not perfect due to the [light reflection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_(physics)).) * One solution that partially works, even though it may not be obvious at first, is: **Lock your screen**! This [does not only prevent from cat pictures (or similar) appearing on your screen](https://lockyourscreen.com/) , but also actually fade the window to black in recent GNOME versions. The problems with this solution/approach are: * Any keypress will wake the screen up, even if it is just the keyboard button for pausing music or skipping a track. * Worse, any notification will wake your screen up. (Again I could circumvent this by enabling “Do not disturb” mode, but really, do I want to do that just for that? Again very inconvenient.) * Also, there may the inevitable “This system will go to standby soon” notification (at least in GNOME 41), which _will_ wake-up your screen, * Now, worst though, after your screen woke up once and you are now at the login/lock screen, if you wait _the screen will not turn black again_ automatically. The only workaround I found for this is logging in and, yet again, re-locking it. Do I need to say another time this usability s………eems to be not the best? An “old” solution I had was one: * Another laptop I used had a special **Fn button**, which would just turn the whole screen black. It looked as if it was not a hardware thing, but somehow GNOME really interpreted that key correctly. Now, I desperately miss that key or that feature in general. ## Solution wanted I want to have a **keyboard shortcut/hotkey** or something equally easily accessible that just **turns the screen black**. Pitch black, so I am not dazzled. It, thought, _must not_ turn the device into standby. (Music players usually have a lock on that, so GNOME won't do that by default anyway, but one could always trigger standby manually of course.) How can I do that? ## System GNOME 42.1 Fedora 36 (Silverblue) ---- Cross-posed [to Fedora Ask](https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/how-to-turn-the-screen-total-pitch-black-in-gnome/22426?u=rugk) . Feel free to submit your answer there, too, if you have one.

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 --audio-driver=alsa -o audio.period-size=128 /path/to/soundfont.sf2 and was wondering if there is some command, flag, or option that would allow me to select a specific preset from the command line.

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 to succeed. I'm not interested in using the piano as a midi controller or anything fancy, just record it using Audacity or some other similar software. Here some information. System Devuan Chimaera kernel 5.10.0-21-amd64 alsa and alsa-utils installed qjackctl installed audacity installed This is a screenshot of what appears on qjackctl connections where I assume 0:CH345 MIDI 1 is the piano interface. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MFI60n_M_eSQ8aj9vF-01mGYWjJ5u-22/view?usp=share_link here's some more information $ aseqdump Waiting for data at port 129:0. Press Ctrl+C to end. Source Event Ch Data $ lsusb Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1a40:0101 Terminus Technology Inc. Hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 13d3:5652 IMC Networks TOSHIBA Web Camera - HD Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1a86:752d QinHeng Electronics CH345 MIDI adapter Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub $ lsmod | grep usb snd_usb_audio 319488 2 snd_usbmidi_lib 45056 1 snd_usb_audio snd_rawmidi 45056 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_usbmidi_lib mc 61440 5 videodev,snd_usb_audio,videobuf2_v4l2,uvcvideo,videobuf2_common snd_hwdep 20480 2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec snd_pcm 143360 11 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec,soundwire_intel,snd_compress,snd_pcm_oss,snd_soc_core,snd_hda_core usbcore 331776 5 xhci_hcd,snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,uvcvideo,xhci_pci snd 110592 29 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_intel, snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_timer,snd_compress,snd_pcm_oss,snd_soc_core,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_mixer_oss usb_common 16384 3 xhci_hcd,usbcore,uvcvideo $ aconnect -i client 0: 'System' [type=kernel] 0 'Timer ' 1 'Announce ' client 14: 'Midi Through' [type=kernel] 0 'Midi Through Port-0' client 20: 'CH345' [type=kernel,card=1] 0 'CH345 MIDI 1 $ lshw *-multimedia description: Audio device product: Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series High Definition Audio Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1b bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0 version: 0e width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0 resources: irq:95 memory:d0810000-d0813fff Thanks for any pointers or suggestions.

In windows music files have metadata like artist name, album name associated with them. How is this metadata stored. Is it stored in file system like other file attributes or is it part of MP3 data that Windows Explorer extracts using a MP3 reader plugin? Is it possible to read/change this information in Linux? Is it possible with commandline? *(I know these attributes can be set using Rhythymbox or some music player but I'm curious if these could also be set directly. Like in Windows the windows itself shows you artist information if you right click the file and open properties dialog)*

Rhythmbox on my Arch Linux shows my smartphone on the devices list, but it's unable to find any music on it. I installed mtp and mtpfs and also enabled the mtp plugin in Rhythmbox. I also added a .is_audio_player file with this content: audio_folders=Music/ folder_depth=2 output_formats=audio/mpeg But no luck, the device is actually mounted fine and I'm able to browse through the files (using gphoto2) but if I try to play the files directly through the device they won't play either. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

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 add particular folder to a playlist with ease. - saving playlists to file - browsing audio collection by artist, album etc..

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 transcodes of the original collections lossless files. Some assumptions: * I know how to use ffmpeg to convert flac to opus files * I only have flac files that need to be converted, no wav or alac codecs * The lossy files can be opus, vorbis, or mp3 I want to: * Use minimal storage for the the new music collection. I.e. it would link back to the original lossy files where appropriate. * Keep the collection up to date as I add more lossy and lossless files to the original, or update the metadata. * Not have to re-transcode lossless files that have not been modified. I imagine I will need to use some custom scripting to accomplish this, but if anyone has recommendations or tips before I sink lots of time into this, I would be eternally grateful.

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 Software available to me via my linux system. Is there such a thing? Thanks so much!

I would like to do some music composition on my linux mint pc, but I have run into instabilities while trying to install and use a low-latency kernel (system freezes, possibly due to conflicts with the nvidia proprietary graphics drivers). So as I see it, I have three options: 1. Either use my current system, i.e. the normal, generic kernel 1. Install a dedicated audio distribution like Ubuntustudio 1. Install the low-latency kernel on my current system but disable my graphics card. Option 2 involves repartitioning etc so I'd like to avoid that, and option 3 is pretty ugly and tedious to work with. So I would like to know, if I go with option 1, what am I missing out on by not using a low-latency kernel for music production? (both in general, and w.r.t. the linux toolchain in particular)? If I choose to use a generic kernel for music production, what side-effects, problems can I expect that a low-latency kernel is supposed to solve? Will I not be able to use JACK effectively? Will I be able to record? Will there be a lag in my recordings? Noise / skips / screetches? Will midi input accuracy via piano keyboard suffer? PS. This question is [crossposted from music.SE](https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/57041/linux-music-production-workflow-without-a-low-latency-kernel) as per a comment there suggesting this may be a more appropriate forum. I'd be interested in people's opinion here on whether a linux workflow for music production is a suitable topic for this forum.

I should restrict this question to KDE, but the non-KDE-specific players may very well work. I am surprised how many Linux audio players (and video/multimedia players too) lack the simple option of accessing and opening a music CD that was inserted in the CD drive. I mostly use Deadbeef and Clementine, and they do have this option, but they do not show the track names. What music players - have an "open CD" option? - show the tracks names in a playlist? **EDIT:**: Music players that do not have a clear way ('Open CD', 'Add CD' option, etc) to access a music cd in the drive: Bomi, Dragon, Guayadeque, Parole, Qmmp, Quod Libet, Tomahawk, Yarock.

I have been spoiled by the ease with which I can connect my iPad up to MIDI applications on my Macbook using the native support for midi-over-the-network (apparently RTP-MIDI) provided by the CoreMIDI subsystem in both OS X and iOS. Is there a compatible Linux implementation? I have found some tantalizing references out there that indicate there *may* be one, but I haven't been able to find any concrete information.

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 room of the building that does support receiving of UPnP-streams. How can I configure a Debian-based system to keep emitting the sound on the classic stereo jack **but additionally also stream it via** UPnP, so I can feed both speakers simultaneously?

I use Fedora 13 and very recently I brought a new Apple iPod shuffle. I would like to know whether I can transfer music into my iPod without using iTunes. I tried using gtkpod and RhythmicBox, but that is of no avail.

I am trying to use kdenlive (0.9.10) on Ubuntu 14.04 to create a simple music-mix clip (for youtube). This clip has a total length of about 90 minutes and is composed of several mp3 tracks, which sometimes slightly overlap. In addition, I have static images which do not overlap. The whole music mix clip does not have any actual moving images in it. To render this project I have chosen the HDEV 720p PAL profile, which is supposed to 'render fast' (according to a youtube video whose source I cannot find at the moment). I started rendering and it gave me an estimated time of about 25 minutes. However, this was 6 (six!) hours ago. Now kdenlive states the estimated time to be about 12 seconds, but this already for hours! I can see the output file building (a m2t file) which grows about 12 kB (i.e. 12000 Bytes!) every second. The current size is about 200 MB. How can I render this video clip faster? I am doing something fundamental wrong? Why is this video clip (which does not even contain 'video') taking such an incredible long time? Maybe there are ways to make it differently? If there is a better tool, I will try this instead!

I've got this wonderful conundrum with a WAV file, whereas I cannot detect it's actual sample size (i.e. how many bits are in a sample) and the number of channels. geek@liv-inspiron:~$ soxi file.wav Input File : 'file.wav' Channels : 2 Sample Rate : 44100 Precision : 16-bit Duration : 00:03:19.56 = 8800596 samples = 14967 CDDA sectors File Size : 35.2M Bit Rate : 1.41M Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM MPlayer2 reports the following (but I can only hear noise): geek@liv-inspiron:~$ mplayer file.wav MPlayer2 2.0-701-gd4c5b7f-2ubuntu2 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team Playing file.wav. Detected file format: WAV / WAVE (Waveform Audio) (libavformat) [wav @ 0x7f21516c9600]max_analyze_duration reached [lavf] stream 0: audio (pcm_s16le), -aid 0 Load subtitles in . Selected audio codec: Uncompressed PCM [pcm] AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1411.2 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 176400->176400) AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Video: no video Starting playback... While MPlayer outputs actual sound, and seems to detect a DTS format: geek@liv-inspiron:~$ mplayer file.wav MPlayer 1.1-4.8 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team Playing file.wav. libavformat version 54.20.3 (external) Audio only file format detected. Load subtitles in ./ ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders libavcodec version 54.35.0 (external) AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, floatle, 1411.2 kbit/50.00% (ratio: 176400->352800) Selected audio codec: [ffdca] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg DTS) ========================================================================== AO: [pulse] 44100Hz 2ch floatle (4 bytes per sample) Video: no video Starting playback... And if I play it with VLC which also outputs actual sound, it reports: Type: Audio Codec: DTS Audio (dts ) Channels: 3F2R/LFE Sample rate: 44100 Hz Bitrate: 1411 kb/s Some quick math yields 1411 ∕ 44.1 ≈ 31.995465, which implies a 32-bit sample size. So which one is it: 16-bit or 32-bit? Or is it 16-bit per channel? And how many channels does it have? 2 as in Stereo or 5 as in DTS? The info is again conflicting... In other words, is there a tool that can accurately report the technical data for a WAV file, without getting confused by erroneous headers?

I would like to produce (nearly) perfect FLAC files by verifying/checking all conversion steps. I'm hoping to do this in a single command, although a short bash script would be acceptable as a second choice. I am on Kubuntu 12.04 and I installed flac 1.2.1. Here is my starting point: find ~/Music -type f -iname "*.wav" | while read fn; do flac --keep-foreign-metadata --ogg --verify "$fn"; done How can I improve this? If shntool is recommended, how would I include it? How would I include checksum comparisons? How can I make FLAC test the integrity of each file? A working example is appreciated. BTW, I took a look at perfect-flac-encode , but it is too complicated for me. I don't even fully understand the first sentence of the project's description! The installation steps also look too complex. If there is a similar project that might fit my needs, please let me know.