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Sony MSV files on Linux
I have just bought an old Voice recorder second hand ( Sony ICD-SX68). When I connect it to ubuntu it shows up as a usbdrive with my recorded files. The problem is the file format of the recording. It is msv which is sony specific. So is there a way to convert or listen to it on Linux? I have looked...
I have just bought an old Voice recorder second hand ( Sony ICD-SX68). When I connect it to ubuntu it shows up as a usbdrive with my recorded files. The problem is the file format of the recording. It is msv which is sony specific. So is there a way to convert or listen to it on Linux? I have looked at wine but the search that the software Sony provides can't be wined. What to do?
Jonas Rye (1 rep)
Jun 6, 2019, 07:35 PM • Last activity: May 21, 2025, 01:44 AM
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How can play mp3 and its LRC file together?
ls music song.lrc song.mp3 `song.lrc` is the song lyrics of `song.mp3`,how can play `song.mp3` and `song.lrc` together?Listen to the music and watch the lyrics?I have tried with vlc,smplayer,audacious,clementine;all of them can play music ,not showing lyrics. The song.lrc is in the below format: [00...
ls music song.lrc song.mp3 song.lrc is the song lyrics of song.mp3,how can play song.mp3 and song.lrc together?Listen to the music and watch the lyrics?I have tried with vlc,smplayer,audacious,clementine;all of them can play music ,not showing lyrics. The song.lrc is in the below format: [00:12.00]Line 1 lyrics [00:17.20]Line 2 lyrics [00:21.10]Line 3 lyrics ... mm:ss.xxlast lyrics line
showkey (499 rep)
Sep 23, 2023, 04:15 AM • Last activity: Feb 21, 2025, 09:15 PM
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Minimalistic terminal music player that can play all my files randomly
I'm looking for a terminal music player. `mpg321/mpg123` is quite what I need, but it can't [play all my music directory][1] (which contains child directories). `cmus` seems to be a bit of an overkill, as there are a lot of features I never use. I just need a program, that I can give it my music dir...
I'm looking for a terminal music player. mpg321/mpg123 is quite what I need, but it can't play all my music directory (which contains child directories). cmus seems to be a bit of an overkill, as there are a lot of features I never use. I just need a program, that I can give it my music directory and perhaps a --random flag, then it will play everything with random orders. Can someone point out what options I have?
phunehehe (20536 rep)
Oct 2, 2010, 12:30 PM • Last activity: Nov 25, 2024, 08:35 PM
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Can you help me with playing "Spotify" in terminal?
I'm looking for some help with setting up Spotify on my terminal using a free Spotify account. Previously, there had been some [configurations][1] that worked, but it seems like they no longer do for free accounts. How can I configure `mopidy` along with `ncmpcpp` to listen to Spotify in the termina...
I'm looking for some help with setting up Spotify on my terminal using a free Spotify account. Previously, there had been some configurations that worked, but it seems like they no longer do for free accounts. How can I configure mopidy along with ncmpcpp to listen to Spotify in the terminal using a free Spotify account? I'm hoping to set up mopidy alongside ncmpcpp to play songs on the terminal, as this method uses less memory compared to the web player via a browser. I'm trying to minimize RAM usage while I work with Cursor and other applications. If anyone has a working setup or can provide guidance on how to achieve this, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance for your help! 🙏
DarKnightz (61 rep)
Jun 24, 2024, 12:42 PM
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Refresh cache in cmus
I started using [cmus](https://github.com/cmus/cmus) recently. After adding a music directory if I change any tag of any music files like album name etc. the info in cmus doesn't change. Even if I do `:clear` and then again `:add ~/Music`. How do I refresh this cache in cmus?
I started using [cmus](https://github.com/cmus/cmus) recently. After adding a music directory if I change any tag of any music files like album name etc. the info in cmus doesn't change. Even if I do :clear and then again :add ~/Music. How do I refresh this cache in cmus?
3N4N (973 rep)
Mar 23, 2018, 07:58 PM • Last activity: May 7, 2024, 05:04 PM
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Strawberry Music Player no longer starts
$ strawberry 17:50:33.254 INFO main:165 Strawberry is already running - activating existing window (1) 17:50:38.256 WARN unknown Connection timed out 17:50:38.256 ERROR main:168 Could not send message to primary instance. For some reason strawberry thinks that there is an instance running and times...
$ strawberry 17:50:33.254 INFO main:165 Strawberry is already running - activating existing window (1) 17:50:38.256 WARN unknown Connection timed out 17:50:38.256 ERROR main:168 Could not send message to primary instance. For some reason strawberry thinks that there is an instance running and times out connecting to it - because there is nothing running. Trying to start as root works (but no sound and running as root is not a solution anyway). All files related to strawberry have already been purged, including strawberry itself, but the error persists after a fresh install. $ strawberry --version Strawberry 1.0.23 $ pgrep -f strawberry (no output) $ ps aux | grep '[s]trawberry' (no output) $ cat /etc/os-release command NAME="Linux Mint" VERSION="21.2 (Victoria)" ID=linuxmint ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian" PRETTY_NAME="Linux Mint 21.2" VERSION_ID="21.2" VERSION_CODENAME=victoria UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy I found this error message in the code, but it hasn't helped me to solve this problem. https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/blob/master/src/main.cpp CommandlineOptions options(argc, argv); { // Only start a core application now, so we can check if there's another instance without requiring an X server. // This MUST be done before parsing the commandline options so QTextCodec gets the right system locale for filenames. QCoreApplication core_app(argc, argv); KDSingleApplication single_app(QCoreApplication::applicationName(), KDSingleApplication::Option::IncludeUsernameInSocketName); // Parse commandline options - need to do this before starting the full QApplication, so it works without an X server if (!options.Parse()) return 1; logging::SetLevels(options.log_levels()); if (!single_app.isPrimaryInstance()) { if (options.is_empty()) { qLog(Info) << "Strawberry is already running - activating existing window (1)"; } if (!single_app.sendMessage(options.Serialize())) { qLog(Error) << "Could not send message to primary instance."; } return 0; } }
Ocean (278 rep)
Apr 11, 2024, 04:06 PM • Last activity: Apr 22, 2024, 01:20 PM
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Spotify won't open again after minimizing
When I first launch Spotify it's fine. The GUI window comes up and I can play music. But if I close Spotify, so it's running in the background, I can't open the GUI window back up. It does continue playing music though. The icon is still in the tray. If I right click the tray icon and click 'Show Sp...
When I first launch Spotify it's fine. The GUI window comes up and I can play music. But if I close Spotify, so it's running in the background, I can't open the GUI window back up. It does continue playing music though. The icon is still in the tray. If I right click the tray icon and click 'Show Spotify' it won't show. But clicking the tray icon again shows 'Minimize to tray'. The tray icon keeps toggling between these two options, with nothing actually happening. From the try icon and can exit Spotify, and that works. I can then launch Spotify again and at first the window will come up, but after closing it the same issue happens. If I click to launch Spotify from the applications menu nothing happens. I am using *Pop!_OS 22.04 jammy (x86-64)*. I was using the default Pop OS version of Gnome, but today I decided to install Cinnamon. Spotify worked perfectly fine until installing Cinnamon. But this problem does still exists when switching back to gnome. I've tried installing Spotify through the Pop Store and through snap, but the problem persists. When I launch Spotify from the console, these message show up. enter image description here I don't know how to interpret the above error messages, or if it even relates to this issue at all. I haven't been able to find any solutions online, I just want to be able to open Spotify again If I minimize it. Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated.
Lachlan (55 rep)
Dec 3, 2023, 01:31 AM • Last activity: Dec 7, 2023, 10:24 AM
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Arch how to show program in list of open with
I just installed gnome-music. Now I try to open an mp3 file with this program but when I right click open with on my mp3 file, gnome-music is not showing. How can it appear there so I can select it and set as default program to open audio files ?
I just installed gnome-music. Now I try to open an mp3 file with this program but when I right click open with on my mp3 file, gnome-music is not showing. How can it appear there so I can select it and set as default program to open audio files ?
Mickael B. (111 rep)
Dec 26, 2022, 09:24 PM
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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 add particular folder to a playlist with ease. - saving playlists to file - browsing audio collecti...
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..
vishvAs vAsuki (125 rep)
Sep 5, 2022, 02:01 AM • Last activity: Sep 5, 2022, 11:13 PM
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Check what media is now playing from the command line
My desktop environment seems to know what music I am playing. I want to be able to check that from the command line too. Is there a tool or dbus query that will tell me what music or media is playing at the moment, and preferably what app it is playing in? The are many possible applications for this...
My desktop environment seems to know what music I am playing. I want to be able to check that from the command line too. Is there a tool or dbus query that will tell me what music or media is playing at the moment, and preferably what app it is playing in? The are many possible applications for this, but my actual use case is that I want to queue up playing some music from the CLI after a one hour music set finishes playing in YouTube on Chrome.
Sam Watkins (184 rep)
Aug 31, 2022, 06:52 AM • Last activity: Sep 4, 2022, 01:36 PM
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Music player with seek function from command line
Popular Linux music players (Audacious, cmus...) don't have a seek function that can be invoked from command line. Is there any player with such a function to play FLAC format from a start time to an end time? It should allow something like `$ player --from 1:00 --to 2:00 sample.flac` so `sample.fla...
Popular Linux music players (Audacious, cmus...) don't have a seek function that can be invoked from command line. Is there any player with such a function to play FLAC format from a start time to an end time? It should allow something like $ player --from 1:00 --to 2:00 sample.flac so sample.flac plays from time 1:00 to 2:00.
nightcod3r (972 rep)
Jan 28, 2022, 12:47 PM • Last activity: Jan 28, 2022, 09:41 PM
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Can I run both Wine and Wine Staging on the same OS without any interference between both?
I'm asking before trying because I already have a few things set up in Wine Stable, so I don't want to mess things up by installing something else over it. Basically, I want to install Staging because I have an app which is said to require the former to function properly under Linux (it's a music pl...
I'm asking before trying because I already have a few things set up in Wine Stable, so I don't want to mess things up by installing something else over it. Basically, I want to install Staging because I have an app which is said to require the former to function properly under Linux (it's a music player.) Will installing Staging affect the way Wine Stable behaves? If so, how? Can I configure Wine Stable and Wine Staging separately? I'm running Debian Bullseye Stable. Thank you.
GPWR (162 rep)
Jan 27, 2022, 10:19 PM • Last activity: Jan 28, 2022, 01:47 PM
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mpv can't play cdrom
entering this command `mpv cdda://` starts to spin the music cd I've inserted previously but 3 secs later quits giving me this output. ``` (+) Audio --aid=1 (pcm_s16le 2ch 44100Hz) [cdda] Switched to track 1 AO: [alsa] 48000Hz stereo 2ch s16 A: 00:00:00 / 00:00:00 (92%) Cache: 0.0s Exiting... (End o...
entering this command mpv cdda:// starts to spin the music cd I've inserted previously but 3 secs later quits giving me this output.
(+) Audio --aid=1 (pcm_s16le 2ch 44100Hz)
[cdda] Switched to track 1
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz stereo 2ch s16
A: 00:00:00 / 00:00:00 (92%) Cache: 0.0s


Exiting... (End of file)
testoflow (137 rep)
May 17, 2021, 08:56 PM • Last activity: May 17, 2021, 09:01 PM
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Music players that have 'Open CD' option and that show tracks' titles?
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. [![open cd option in a player][1]]...
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. open cd option in a player 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.
user32012
Jan 12, 2016, 09:35 AM • Last activity: Jan 5, 2021, 11:21 AM
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Remove Google Play Music from Debian
I am running a Debian stretch distribution with Cinnamon. I would like to remove Google Play Music and I don't know how I installed it. I may have downloaded the .deb package here : https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/ but the command dpkg -r package.deb doesn't work Moreover I can't list i...
I am running a Debian stretch distribution with Cinnamon. I would like to remove Google Play Music and I don't know how I installed it. I may have downloaded the .deb package here : https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/ but the command dpkg -r package.deb doesn't work Moreover I can't list it with dpkg -l | grep google dpkg -l | grep music According to the attached picture, it is related to google-chrome package, but I don't want to uninstall google-chrome. enter image description here
Smilia (312 rep)
Nov 16, 2017, 10:31 AM • Last activity: Dec 29, 2020, 06:17 PM
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How to use mopidy-youtube?
I am using Arch bspwm on my laptop. I installed `mpd`, `ncmpcpp` and `mopidy` (with mopidy-yt extension) and enabled the required stuff for mopidy-youtube. How do I use it? I am new to all this and hope you guys can explain.
I am using Arch bspwm on my laptop. I installed mpd, ncmpcpp and mopidy (with mopidy-yt extension) and enabled the required stuff for mopidy-youtube. How do I use it? I am new to all this and hope you guys can explain.
Kailash K S (1 rep)
Dec 27, 2020, 05:10 PM • Last activity: Dec 28, 2020, 08:37 PM
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Find correct CMUS alsa device configuration for volume control
I have a raspberry pi with an IQAudio DAC+ hat installed, running the Volumio linux distribution. The card works well. I've set the `dsp.alsa.device` setting to `device:1` and this outputs the audio correctly over the DAC hat. But the CMUS volume control doesn't work. I think I have to set `mixer.al...
I have a raspberry pi with an IQAudio DAC+ hat installed, running the Volumio linux distribution. The card works well. I've set the dsp.alsa.device setting to device:1 and this outputs the audio correctly over the DAC hat. But the CMUS volume control doesn't work. I think I have to set mixer.alsa.channel and mixer.alsa.device in CMUS. Right now, they are set to mixer.alsa.channel PCM mixer.alsa.device default What device name and channel name do I use? I've tried these combinations: mixer.alsa.channel PCM mixer.alsa.device default:1 mixer.alsa.channel Digital mixer.alsa.device default:1 mixer.alsa.channel PCM mixer.alsa.device IQAudioIODac mixer.alsa.channel Digital mixer.alsa.device IQAudioIODac mixer.alsa.channel PCM mixer.alsa.device default:CARD=IQaudIODAC mixer.alsa.channel Digital mixer.alsa.device default:CARD=IQaudIODAC But CMUS always gives the error message Error: can't change volume: mixer is not open. Should I use a different CMUS setting? Here's my output from aplay -l: card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 0: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA] Subdevices: 6/7 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Subdevice #1: subdevice #1 Subdevice #2: subdevice #2 Subdevice #3: subdevice #3 Subdevice #4: subdevice #4 Subdevice #5: subdevice #5 Subdevice #6: subdevice #6 card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 1: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: IQaudIODAC [IQaudIODAC], device 0: IQaudIO DAC HiFi pcm512x-hifi-0 [] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 And here's my output from aplay -L: hw:CARD=ALSA,DEV=0 bcm2835 ALSA, bcm2835 ALSA Direct hardware device without any conversions hw:CARD=ALSA,DEV=1 bcm2835 ALSA, bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI Direct hardware device without any conversions plughw:CARD=ALSA,DEV=0 bcm2835 ALSA, bcm2835 ALSA Hardware device with all software conversions plughw:CARD=ALSA,DEV=1 bcm2835 ALSA, bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI Hardware device with all software conversions default:CARD=IQaudIODAC IQaudIODAC, Default Audio Device sysdefault:CARD=IQaudIODAC IQaudIODAC, Default Audio Device dmix:CARD=IQaudIODAC,DEV=0 IQaudIODAC, Direct sample mixing device dsnoop:CARD=IQaudIODAC,DEV=0 IQaudIODAC, Direct sample snooping device hw:CARD=IQaudIODAC,DEV=0 IQaudIODAC, Direct hardware device without any conversions plughw:CARD=IQaudIODAC,DEV=0 IQaudIODAC, Hardware device with all software conversions
Thijs (221 rep)
Apr 15, 2018, 08:18 PM • Last activity: Dec 27, 2020, 08:12 AM
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Music player which supports custom FLAC tags
I'm reorganizing my music library and I'm hoping to use custom FLAC tags to better represent the contents of the files (most common tagging schemes work poorly for classical music, for example). Adding custom tags is simple using the "metaflac" package, but I've had trouble finding a music player th...
I'm reorganizing my music library and I'm hoping to use custom FLAC tags to better represent the contents of the files (most common tagging schemes work poorly for classical music, for example). Adding custom tags is simple using the "metaflac" package, but I've had trouble finding a music player that can actually handle such tags beyond a few "standard" ones like "Artist" or "Album" etc. Does such an application exist? More specifically, the functionality I would like includes: - Displaying custom tags during playback. Either simply showing all of them in a list or showing a customizable subset. So instead of just showing "Album"/"Artist"/"Title". It could also display user-defined "Conductor"/"Soloist" and other such tags. - Being able to search within tags. - I'd be extra happy if it was a terminal-application or something similarly lightweight. I have experimented with cmus and while it does support some "extended" tags such as "composer" it still only allows selection from a pre-baked list of tags, rather than being fully customizable.
user385189
Dec 6, 2019, 10:41 AM • Last activity: Jul 2, 2020, 09:00 PM
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How to get cdcd (terminal tool to play audi CDs) retrieve tracks titles as freeDB is shutdown
I'm using CDCD tool to play CDs from terminal (in project involving a RPI and physical buttons to reproduce a hifi system). Up to recently, it worked fined as CDCD asked a freeDB server for disc data such as artist, tracks titles and so on. It appears that the FreeDB project as stopped (March 2020)...
I'm using CDCD tool to play CDs from terminal (in project involving a RPI and physical buttons to reproduce a hifi system). Up to recently, it worked fined as CDCD asked a freeDB server for disc data such as artist, tracks titles and so on. It appears that the FreeDB project as stopped (March 2020) and I wonder if its possible to link CDCD with musicbrainz or to use another cd player (from terminal) which already use musicbranz). Thanks in advance.
M. Miguel-Brebion (11 rep)
Jun 14, 2020, 10:30 AM
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Choosing directories searched by GNOME Music app
The GNOME "Music" app says it searches my `Music` folder (e.g. it says this in the message you see when the directory is empty). However it does not follow symbolic links inside ~/Music/ to other directories. I already have a hierachy of music files. I can't sym-link `~/Music` to the root of my hier...
The GNOME "Music" app says it searches my Music folder (e.g. it says this in the message you see when the directory is empty). However it does not follow symbolic links inside ~/Music/ to other directories. I already have a hierachy of music files. I can't sym-link ~/Music to the root of my hierarchy, because that includes duplicates (different codecs). Nor can I point it at a single sub-directory that contains all the files I want, without using symlinks. Is there a way to support the existing hierarchy, that doesn't involve writing a script to copy gigabytes of music files? gnome-music-3.24.2-1.fc26.x86_64
sourcejedi (53222 rep)
Oct 1, 2017, 10:26 AM • Last activity: Apr 12, 2020, 06:06 PM
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